EDF / 2018 Reference document

ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIETAL INFORMATION – HUMAN RESOURCES EDF's Corporate Social Responsibility Goals

Group Data

2018

2017

2016

Group employee frequency rate

2.7 3.5

2.7

2.7

Overall Group frequency rate (EDF + service providers) [*]

In order to have comparable data between Group entities and measure accident rates directly related to the performance of activities, EDF set-up a new “LTIR” indicator corresponding to the calculation of the frequency rate according to Anglo-Saxon standards. This indicator will be provided in 2019. The 2020 objectives of the new health and safety policy are now expressed on the basis of this new indicator (EDF LTIR less than 1.4 and overall LTIR: EDF + service providers less than 1.8). Fight against absenteeism and quality of working life Among the areas for improvement pinpointed, prevention of anxiety- and depression-related disorders, stress and musculoskeletal disorders (MSD), the three main causes of absenteeism, are regularly targeted by prevention initiatives. In 2017, the participation of EDF employees in an online course on the prevention of MSDs was chosen as a safety criterion under of the profit-sharing agreement. In 2017, 8,675 employees completed this course, well above the 3,500 target set in the profit-sharing agreement. Deployment in 2017 of the EDF SA labour agreement: “Improving the functioning and working conditions of teams on a daily basis for better quality of life in the workplace and better performance by organisations”, signed on 8 July 2016, allows efforts within teams to improve quality of working life and the prevention of psychosocial risks. In 2018, a Group-wide methodology for the evaluation of psychosocial risks was developed based on data from the employee perception survey (My EDF), cross-checked with the Gollac criteria. This new system makes it possible to improve the detection of group's potentially in difficulty and define more appropriate prevention actions. Health at work - work-related illnesses Health at work, a major theme The EDF group employs staff specialised in health at work. The Group also employs physicians who are experts in toxicology, ergonomics, epidemiology, first aid, and radiation protection. In addition to medical monitoring of employees, these healthcare workers are involved in setting up primary prevention programmes and are stakeholders on all the social dialogue bodies in the field of health at work. Health in the workplace is the subject of an important social dialogue with the EDF SA central works council, with a session dedicated to the topic every year to examine the results of inter-establishment Work Health Services. A special commission was created in the body to monitor cases. Occupational diseases The annual data published by the Group’s French companies (particularly EDF and Enedis) gives as the main causes of occupational diseases: asbestos (pleurisy, pleural plaques, primary cancer of the lung), movements and positions (shoulder condition, tendinitis, carpal canal), conditions caused by ionising radiation, silica (pneumoconiosis) and noise hazards (deafness). Asbestos In the past, the EDF group has used products, materials and facilities containing asbestos. In accordance with current regulations in France, the replacement of materials containing asbestos in EDF establishments and facilities began in the late 1980s, with all materials containing asbestos being treated, and EDF set up reporting measures and procedures to protect employees and third parties working at the Company.

In July 1998, EDF signed an agreement, revised in June 2002, with all trade union federations, for the prevention of and compensation for exposure to asbestos. Following this agreement, EDF introduced an early retirement plan for workers who are duly recognised as suffering from an occupational disease associated with asbestos. Voluntary financial assistance and a pension supplement both financed by EDF were established. EDF also provided social assistance to sick workers and their families with information and support during the compensation process. See section 2.4 “Legal proceedings and arbitration”) for a description of current procedures. onising radiation The mobilisation of ground players has allowed a continuous improvement of performance on the protection of employees against the effects of ionising radiation. In France, the average annual individual dose of all the workers, employees of EDF and external companies, working on reactors was halved in less than ten years; in the United Kingdom, there was the same reduction, mainly thanks to optimised governance of maintenance and repair work. In 2018 in France and in the United Kingdom, and since 2003, no workers, employees or service providers exceeded the regulatory threshold (individual dose over 12 sliding months). In France, in 2018, the average collective dose is 0.67mSv (man-Sievert) by reactor (0.61 and 0.76mSv by reactor in 2017 and 2016). In connection with the industrial programme for 2018, this result is and remains the fruit of the optimisation of sites and activities, especially of the efficiency of interventions for optimising the radiological condition of the circuits. In 2018 in the United Kingdom, the average collective dose was 0.095mSv for the EPR reactor and 0.05mSv per AGR reactor (advanced gas reactors). EDF is proactively implementing an ALARA (As Low as Reasonably Achievable) policy to limit the collective dose to take account of the workload involved in the industrial project on the fleet in operation over the coming years. Efforts must be continued to implement the ALARA procedure on the ground in the years to come, and also in terms of the radiological cleanliness of circuits and premises to bring us up to the levels of the best operators. We must also continue efforts to control and reduce doses in the most exposed professions. Making health at work a subject of social 3.2.2.1.2 dialogue Within the Group, there is social dialogue on health at work at three levels: European level (presentation of the actions taken during the year to the ■ European Works Council’s Health & Safety workgroup); at Group France level (with the presentation of the year’s key issues and figures ■ to the France Group Committee); and at EDF level, with a national health at work group issuing recommendations on ■ four themes: prevention of asbestos risk, impact of business line developments on medical teams, development of a health at work action plan and communication on health at work. In 2018, joint work on health and safety was carried out with the European Works Council, through several exchanges (presentation of Group results and actions) but also within the framework of the joint working group that made it possible to prepare the reference framework for the best practices in health and safety management (BEST reference framework: Building Excellence in Safety Together) which has been widely circulated and is also available on the website www.edf.fr. A progress report on the strategic health and safety objectives was also presented to all of the bodies .

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[*] IND Key non-financial performance indicator (see concordance table with the non-financial performance statement in section 8.5.4)

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