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ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIETAL INFORMATION − HUMAN RESOURCES Pay close attention to our co-workers and make our internal transformations a success

(Group Data)

2017 15 (1)

2016

2015

2014

Total number of employee and service provider deaths

10

16

15

including number of employee deaths: including number of service provider deaths:

6 9

1 9

3

4

13

11

With 7 deaths linked directly to work and 8 deaths linked to other causes (7 dizzy turns and 1 transit accident). (1) The 7 deaths linked to work were: 4 electrocutions, 1 employee who was hit by a vehicle on a site by the side of a road, 1 employee hit when he was returning a hire car and 1 employee who was hit by the bucket of an excavator in a trench.

In 2017, continuing the initiatives started in 2015, the Group focused on 10 key rules, which were adopted following an analysis of deadly accidents in the EDF group over the last 30 years, which everyone must follow as they go about their work in order to avoid serious accidents and protect both themselves and those around them. In order to continue to develop a culture of safety, other initiatives were taken or continued in 2017 (signing of the Charter for safer journeys proposed by the Road Safety Department, in accordance with the Group’s Essential Rules regarding speed, wearing seatbelts, not using a mobile phone whilst driving and prevention of accidents. The signing of this Charter was the culmination of the Group Safety Week organised in October 2017, which dedicated to the aforementioned theme this year). The drafting of 8 Group Requirements for health and safety management

launched in 2016 has been finalised, and their deployment will constitute the basis of the 2018-2020 Group road map. Occupational accidents Since 2015, each Group entity has monitored its service providers’ accident rates, as had already been the case for several years at certain Group entities. In 2017, the Group confirmed the positive results obtained in 2016 (number of accidents at work that resulted in more than one day of absence from work, recorded over the current year and per million hours worked. Days of absence from work are linked to the year when they are taken even if the accident occurred the previous year), confirming its capacity to sustain this level, never before achieved at the Group scale.

(Group Data)

2017

2016

2015 (1)

2014

Group employee frequency rate 3,1 The 2015 frequency rate takes account of the integration of 7 new companies at EDF Luminus and Dalkia. With equivalent scope to 2014, the 2015 frequency (1) rate was 2.9, in line with the objectives set. 2,7 2,7 3,2

In addition, under the terms of a 2010 agreement, a National Health at Work Group was established. It includes representatives from three unions that signed the agreement, employers and occupational health physicians. This NHWG meets four times a year. 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.

Absenteeism at work 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 addition, in 2017, within the framework of the EDF National Workplace Health Group consisting of representatives of union organisations, occupational health physicians delegated by their peers and management representatives, a recommendation for the Prevention of Psychosocial Risks (PSRs) and Quality of Working Life (QWL) was drafted. It stresses the importance of raising awareness, multi-disciplinary work, and impact studies in the case of a change of organisation. Health at work, a major theme The EDF group employs staff specialised in health at work. Accordingly, in 2017, EDF employed 87 occupational physicians (practising) and 156 nursing staff in France. Enedis, for its part, employed 55 occupational physicians and 83 nursing staff. 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 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.

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