Health and Safety Policy
At Atlantica, Health and Safety is our number one priority and we want our employees and contractors working at our assets or at our work centers, to apply the highest standards to ensure safe and sustainable operations. We are firmly committed to maintaining a zero-accident culture.
“Integrity, Compliance and Safety” is our first value and prevails over the rest. We believe in a safety culture that is based on each employee’s constant commitment, the integration of safety into processes, procedures and training, the reporting and analysis of any near misses, strict quality controls, sharing of lessons learnt and best practices within our company, and comparison with recognized international companies.
To maintain a safety culture, Atlantica has integrated health and safety management across all hierarchical levels of the company, including subcontractors working at our assets. We believe this is the way our operations can be conducted in a safe and responsible manner.
To fulfill the highest standards of health and safety, we seek to:
- Comply with all applicable laws, regulations, contractual obligations and our company policies that govern us.
- Identify, mitigate and eliminate health and safety risks at our assets and work centers.
- Maintain an Occupational Health and Safety Management System in compliance with International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standards. Our Health and Safety Management System is ISO 45001 compliant, this certification is valid until 2024.
- Identify and implement health and safety best practices at all our assets.
- Maintain channels of communication and participation with our stakeholders in order to share the company’s health and safety principles.
- Establish human and material resources to follow up subcontractors’ activities at our assets and define annual health and safety targets.
- Provide health and safety training to improve employee skills.
- Promote initiatives to consolidate a culture of health and safety.
- Engage with contractors with a similar approach to us on health and safety.
- Conduct periodical follow-up committees at the different levels of the organization to monitor health and safety performance.
- Promote a continuous improvement philosophy with a zero accidents ambition.
This Policy applies to the Company and each of its subsidiaries, including all directors, officers and employees, and in all geographic locations, regardless of the local practices. In those assets and joint ventures where Atlantica does not have operational control, the Company will do everything it reasonably can to encourage joint ventures and partners follow similar principles.
Atlantica’s senior management are responsible for ensuring and monitoring the implementation of this Policy.
The Policy is effective from the date of its approval and for an indefinite period and may be updated or revised if considered necessary. All revisions will be subject to approval by the Board of Directors of Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure Plc.
Non-compliance with this Policy, including concerns, may be reported anonymously or otherwise to the Company’s Compliance Committee at or through our Whistleblowing Channel available on our website (www.atlantica.com).
The Company guarantees confidentiality and no retaliation of any kind against anyone who reports an issue. These principles may be suspended if a person does not act in good faith or if it was otherwise required under the law.
This Policy was approved by the Board of Directors in December 2020 and was last amended in September 2023.