GRI 400

GRI 401-1 Average hours of training per year per employee

GRI 401-2 Benefits provided to full-time employees that are not provided to temporary or part-time employees

Link:  Sustainability Report 2022, Employment of our human capital  & Key Perfornamnce Indicators ESG, p: 148

GRI 404-1 Average hours of training per year per employee

PPC S.A.

Number of employees participating in training/education programmes

Total number of training hours provided to employees

Average hours of training

Men

Women

Total

Men

Women

Total

Men

Women

Total

Total number of employees

1,321

1,215

2,536

17,901

17,382

35,283

3.51

8.85

4.99

Technical division

868

215

1,083

12,262

4,149

16,411

3.63

Administrative, Financial and Legal division

286

812

1,098

3,112

10,442

13,554

7.60

Other (Health division- H1, H2, H3, H4, General Services division

18

108

126

211

932

1,143

3.55

No category

1

4

5

4

82

86

0.21

Directors, President, CEO

148

76

224

2,312.00

1,777.00

4,089.00

151.44

403-1 Occupational health and safety management system

The Company has a certified (by an independent external body) Occupational Health and Safety Management System according to the international standard ISO 45001 for all its facilities classified as Class A Hazard, namely the Thermal Power Plants (TPP) and Mines.

As for the other facilities of the Company, for which there is a requirement for a study and/or notification under SEVESO III, an OHSD has been established in accordance with the above standard. These include 13 Autonomous Power Plants (APP) on islands (Karpathos, Kos, Kalymnos, Chios, Lesbos, Samos, Lemnos, Milos, Thira, Syros, Andros, Mykonos, and Paros).

All employees, activities and workplaces of the above Units are fully covered by the relevant Occupational Health and Safety Management System.

In addition, it is worth noting that regarding the Hydroelectric Power Plants and the Occupational Health and Safety Department (OHSD), the Occupational Health and Safety Management System (OHSMS), in accordance with the international standard ISO 45001, is being installed and certified.

Link: Sustainability Report 2022, Our priority is the Health, Safety and Wellbeing of our employees, p: 160

403-2 Hazard identification, risk assessment and incident investigation

In order to identify and assess work-related risks, the Company prepares Occupational Risk Assessment Studies (ORAS) based on Law 3850/2010 and the procedures described in internationally recognized standards, such as ISO 31000.

The Occupational Risk Assessment (ORA) for each space is carried out by specialized personnel, as well as through consultation with employees at all levels. The ORA includes:

- Identifying occupational hazards

- Determining individuals who may be harmed by the hazards

- Estimating the severity of the risks

- Evaluating the adequacy of existing measures

The ORAS identifies the control points which are regularly inspected by internal and external inspections, the sources of occupational risk, the measures by which the sources of risk can be eliminated, the prevention measures already in place and those additional ones which must be taken for the employees’ protection. In addition, a survey of employees is conducted through questionnaires, aiming to record their experience of work-related risks. Finally, specialized Risk Assessment Tables are prepared for each work position, with the potential risks, the existing and proposed measures for their elimination and the good practices for the creation of a safe working environment, which are distributed to the respective staff. All measures taken contribute to reducing the risk, either by reducing the likelihood of an incident occurring (technical measures), by limiting the exposure of staff to the risk that can lead to an incident (organizational measures), or by limiting its consequences (use of personal and group protection equipment).

With regard to the existing procedures that can be used by employees to report risks and dangerous situations related to work, a Risk Reporting Procedure has been established, which is done either through reporting to the supervisor, or through complaint boxes, Health & Safety comments, or institutionally through the Occupational Health and Safety Committee (OHSC), or through other procedures included in the Units' OHSMS (ISO 45001).

Link: Sustainability Report 2022, Our priority is the Health, Safety and Wellbeing of our employees, p: 160

403-3 Occupational health services

Health services help to identify and then eliminate risks at work. Each Service Unit has been assigned an Occupational Physician (O.P.) who is administratively subordinate to the Occupational Medicine Division of OHSD/PPC S.A.

Through the Occupational Health and Safety Department, Occupational Medicine is practiced in the Company, which contributes to maintaining the health of employees, preventing occupational diseases and improving working conditions. The aim is to implement procedures that will ensure, as a minimum, that the requirements of the current legislation, which obliges companies to keep an individual medical file and an occupational risk booklet for each employee, are met.

The individual objectives of the institution of Occupational Medical in the Company are:

• Conducting specialized preventive medical check-ups for each group of employees.
• Linking the findings of the check-up to the specific working conditions of each group (workplaces, harmful agents to which they are exposed, etc.).
• Intervention to improve specific working conditions, where necessary.Link: Sustainability Report 2022, Our priority is the Health, Safety and Wellbeing of our employees, p: 165

403-4 Worker participation, consultation and communication on occupational health and safety

PPC S.A. attaches particular importance to the active participation and consultation of employees during the development, implementation and evaluation of the Occupational Health and Safety Management System, as well as to providing them with direct access to information related to Health and Safety.

The participation of employees in the development, implementation and evaluation of each Health and Safety Management System, which is certified or compliant with ISO 45001, follows the requirements of the above standard. In each respective Unit, a System Management Team has been set up, which, in addition to the Management, the Safety Technician and the Occupational Physician, either includes representatives of the employees (which may be the Occupational Health and Safety Committee (OHSC) of Law 3850/2010, where it has been established by the employees), or it consults with them  and requests their participation in writing or by any other appropriate means of communication. The relevant procedures are detailed in the individual OHSCs and may vary between Units. In any case, the Company complies with the provisions of Law No. 3850/2010, to provide employees with access to and information on relevant Health and Safety information, and encourages the establishment of OHSCs by employees. PPC S.A. attaches particular importance to the active participation and consultation of employees during the development, implementation and evaluation of the Occupational Health and Safety Management System, as well as to providing them with direct access to information related to Health and Safety.

The participation of employees in the development, implementation and evaluation of each Health and Safety Management System, which is certified or compliant with ISO 45001, follows the requirements of the above standard. In each respective Unit, a System Management Team has been set up, which, in addition to the Management, the Safety Technician and the Occupational Physician, either includes representatives of the employees (which may be the Occupational Health and Safety Committee (OHSC) of Law 3850/2010, where it has been established by the employees), or it consults with them  and requests their participation in writing or by any other appropriate means of communication. The relevant procedures are detailed in the individual OHSCs and may vary between Units. In any case, the Company complies with the provisions of Law No. 3850/2010, to provide employees with access to and information on relevant Health and Safety information, and encourages the establishment of OHSCs by employees.

Link: Sustainability Report 2022, Our priority is the Health, Safety and Wellbeing of our employees, p: 163

403-5 Worker training on occupational health and safety

Employee category

Number of people

Man-hours

Men

Women

Total

Men

Women

Total

Permanent PPC Employees

372

136

508

4,111

1,525

5,636

PPC contract workers

519

114

633

6,250

939

7,189

Contractors’ staff

52

22

74

284

106

390

Third parties

6

4

10

21

17

38

Trainees

9

1

10

72

12

84

Total

958

277

1,235

10,738

2,599

13,337

403-6 Promotion of worker health

The Company attends to the health of its employees by conducting preventive health checks for all, following the company's contracts with public facilities or private health care providers. In addition, it provides Private Health Insurance coverage for all employees.

Voluntary services and health promotion programs:

• Provision of Psychosocial Support, through an organized network including a Psychiatrist, three Psychologists and seven Social Workers.
• Counselling Support for employees (with facilitations for appointments during working hours) and their family members.
• Conduct of Social Surveys for financial assistance to employees with specific problems, for health reasons, for accidents.
• Information, special hotlines on matters such as dealing with the pandemic, individual counselling, specific actions on smoking, abuse.
• Provision of a leave to employees who request to participate in voluntary blood donation and other similar facilitations to employees for health matters..

Link: Sustainability Report 2022, Our priority is the Health, Safety and Wellbeing of our employees, p: 165

403-7 Prevention and mitigation of occupational health and safety impacts directly linked by business relationships

The Company's approach to the prevention and mitigation of hazardous incidents is summarized in the Occupational Health and Safety Policy, following its recent update (Dec. DNS 1/2022). Indicatively, the principle of prevention is applied through the implementation of Measurements of Harmful Factors (MHF), Occupational Risk Assessment Studies (ORAS), training, inspections, consultations with employees, implementation of the institution of a Safety Technician, Occupational Physician, Occupational Health and Safety Committees, quarterly meetings between the Director, Safety Technician, Occupational Physician and the OHSC.

The above approach also applies to the employees of contractors/subcontractors, for workplace-related subjects, to the extent that they work in the same place as the Company's employees (Measurements of Harmful Factors, ERPs-Evasion Plans) and/or perform similar tasks (which are included in the ORAS).

Link: Sustainability Report 2022, Our priority is the Health, Safety and Wellbeing of our employees, p: 165

403-9 Work-related injuries

Published incidents in Accident Statistics refer to all incidents and were published to all employees. Therefore, neither incidents nor workers were excluded. The commentary lists indicative-characteristic incidents (the most serious on the one hand and the most common on the other), but without identifying specific Units and employees.

The analysis was based on the categorization of total accidents into fatal and non-fatal accidents, and further subdividing them into pathological incidents, pure occupational accidents of more than three days' absence, those occurring on the way to and from work and road accidents.

Based on the above data, the annual frequency, severity and impact rates of all accidents that occurred in the year 2022 (excluding pathological incidents), the frequency rates of fatal accidents (excluding pathological incidents), and the ESAW (European Statistics On Accidents At Work) frequency, severity and impact rates  are calculated. Furthermore, the Incident Rate (IR) and Lost Time Case Rate (LTCR) indices are included as defined by the GRI standard and OSHA. The last two indices apply to all recorded accidents, not just those according to ESAW, and are included in the tables of this report.

Data concerning workers who have employment contracts with the Company but are not employees

In 2022, 8 accidents were recorded involving contracted workers.

The main types of injuries at work are listed indicatively, depending on the nature of the accident, in descending order of frequency: falls, blows to or from objects, other accidents. Also, depending on the nature of the injury, in descending order of frequency, injuries from superficial injuries, fractures and burns are reported.

Link: Sustainability Report 2022, Our priority is the Health, Safety and Wellbeing of our employees & Key Performance Indicators ESG, p: 176

405-1 Diversity of governance bodies and employees

405-2 Ratio of basic salary and remuneration of women to men

406-1 Incidents of discrimination and corrective actions taken

0

Link:  Sustainability Report 2022, Protection of Human Rights, p: 178

413-1 Operations with local community engagement , impact assessments and development

6.441,50 (€)

Link: Sustainability Report 2022, Interaction with Local Communities p: 194

414-1 New suppliers that were screened using social criteria

The Company’s Board of Directors, in 2022, approved the new Regulation of Works, Supplies and Services, for the execution of contracts for Projects, Procurement and Services of the Company. This includes mainly the evaluation of social and environmental. More specifically, PPC S.A. can:

             temporarily or definitively exclude a contractor on the basis of social and environmental criteria, especially if the contractor has been convicted of a violation of environmental, social or labor law, or is not sufficiently reliable.

             require contractors to provide evidence of their compliance, with the possibility of exclusion in case of infringements.

             introduce clauses in Project and Service Contracts, obliging contractors to comply with environmental, social and labor laws, with possible sanctions in case of violations.

             stop the work of a contractor who does not comply with health and safety requirements at work.

             exclude a contractor who systematically violates environmental, social and labor laws, in accordance with the terms of the contractLink: Sustainability Report 2022, Strengthening a Responsible and Sustainable Supply Chain, p: 228

416-2 Incidents of non-compliance concerning the health and safety impacts of products and services

0

Link: Sustainability Report 2022, Customer Care, p: 218

418-1: Substantiated complaints concerning breaches of customer privacy and losses of customer data

294 documented complaints, 0 proven incidents of leakage or loss of customer data.

Link: Sustainability Report 2022, Cybersecurity, p: 276