PSC companies take steps to ensure that both employees and collaborators, either belonging to the company or subcontractors, follow the accident prevention regulations as well as hygiene and health protection in the workplace. They also work to consolidate and spread a culture of safety, developing risk awareness and promoting responsible onsumpt on behalf of all employees and collaborators, in order to preserve their physical integrity.
All employees in Italy have contracts that adhere to the two different types of CCNL (National Collective Labor Agreements):

• Rubber and plastic
• Metal working

Employees are protected by national agreements. This is valid also for plants abroad.

All Italian plants comply with Legislative Decree 81/08 by filling out the DVR form (Risk Assessment Document), general and for specific risks. In this respect, hierarchical principles for risk assessment and prevention are followed as below:

1. Elimination of risk at source
2. Replacement of what is dangerous with what is safer or less risky
3. Development of large technical systems for risks onsumptio
4. Establishment of procedure and work instructions
5. Spread of safety signs
6. Personal safety protection devices (DPI) development

The employer, with the support of RSPP and a competent doctor, of RSL, as well as managers and supervisors, shall be responsible for the operational process. The results of the risk assessment procedure will be useful in developing improvement measures, included in the Business Improvement Plan, to be applied on a regular basis.
Italian workers can report any perceived risk anonymously, in order to avoid repercussions, by using RSL mediation, which will inform the employer. Every worker, without being affected negatively, will be free to refuse to carry on activities if considered risky, in case this is not managed by the prevention and protection system.
All PSC plants in Italy have workers’ safety representatives, for the minimum legal requirements, according to the provisions by Legislative Decree Law 81/08.

However, for the premises abroad, a specific legislation in force will be applied and all employees will be protected by national agreements In Sole Woerth plant, a specific training course for all workers is carried out by an external company twice a year, in order to determine and assess risks related to the workplace. The quality manager, in collaboration with business management, coordinates the resources so to identify and to eliminate risks, through an ongoing training process. Daily activities report on this activity is issued on a monthly basis and it is given to the business management. If no significant aspects are identified, these reports will be archived, even if an action planning will be prepared to look into this matter. Furthermore, thanks to a specific form, the workers can report if they are not able to carry out activities due to risk situations, pursuant to national agreements.

In the plants of PSC do Brazil, risk identification and assessment is processed and managed by the “health and safety” function, with the participation of their relevant employees and/or representatives, which is set up in order to identify all possible dangers and risks related to all the company’s activities, by evaluating them according to parameters such as “Severity” and “Probability”. The risk assessment and prevention process follows the hierarchical principles adopted in Italian plants. If during the assessment it is found that the measures taken are not appropriate to classify the risk as acceptable or moderate, further actions will be taken to minimize it. The effectiveness of each action is checked within thirty/ninety days following its actual implementation. After this assessment, the risk is subject to a new check.

In this plant, there are formal committees that deal with health and safety at work on behalf of the company’s employees, such as:
CIPA – Internal Commission for accidents prevention at work.
COERGO – Ergonomics Committee that assesses ergonomic improvement needs in several fields.
Workers can report risk situations by filling out a special form, analyzed by the PSMM Pernambuco and PSC Automotivos security departments which, in collaboration with the area managers, will implement accurate actions.
Workers can also report any risk situations to the Internal Commission on Accident Prevention (CIPA), made up of all area representatives; the Board and the management area meet monthly with “health and safety” executives. In any case, workers will not be subject to consequences. Also in PSMM and PSCA plants, workers can refuse to carry out activities, if considered hazardous, according to national agreement.

PSMM Pernambuco has direct means of communication with FCA-PSA Group, by which risky situations can be reported.
In the event that a certain work activity is identified as dangerous for safety or health, the worker shall be trained to instantly notify and stop its operation until the problem is solved.

The company applies a formal procedure to prevent risky situations happening again; this includes that the main causes shall emerge, along with the unsafe actions and conditions that led to an incident, therefore necessary countermeasures shall be identified and developed, in order to avoid similar events. Such countermeasures are monitored on a weekly basis by the Security Department, alongside decision-makers.

In Proprad plant, risk assessment is carried out by an external firm. Quality manager is responsible for the company and its external consultants. Likewise, factory workers who perceive risky situations shall inform their supervisors.

Also in the plants of Sosnowiec CPS and APT, ISO 45001 management system is active, covering all activities, workers and workplaces. Workplace health and safety management is entrusted to an interdisciplinary group, which carries out a risk assessment, by giving priority to the identification and elimination of the most serious potential ones. The quality of this process shall be regularly checked during safety audits. If the implemented measures give positive results, they shall be extended to other activities or departments, where possible.

Workers are encouraged to report problematic situations, in accordance with the principle of prevention, by using the appropriate safety cards (S-Tags) available in the workplace. One more time, the law protects the possibility of workers to refuse any work activity that puts their health or safety at risk.

For the plant of Twice DE, since not provided for by national law, no risk assessment documentation is available as it is not provided by the National Law, which is, however, carried out with the support of an external consultancy company. Furthermore, periodically, meetings with RSPP are held on a regular basis in which all possible risk or dangerous situations shall be analysed and identified the interventions to minimize them. Employees can inform the possibility of risk anonymously, also by using a dedicated email address.

All PSC Italian plants have appointed a competent doctor to carry out those activities laid down by Legislative Decree 81/08, and subsequent modifications and additions, collaborating with the Company in all the related operations. Every year, this doctor draws up a health surveillance plan: in this document, all risks connected to each task are described. In addition, he arranges regular preventive medical checks, carries out workplace inspections, attends regular meetings on this topic and helps to prepare the risk assessment evaluation.

At the same time, regarding the plants abroad, the role of a competent doctor is also engaged as a support for all those activities aiming at risk identification, assessment and management.

PSC ensures workers access to the competent doctor, in accordance with existing agreements.
All PSC employees receive accurate training on health and safety, where the plants are located, according to the national law.

In some plants of the Group, workplace health promotion programs are achieved; they speak about: anti-smoking campaign,healthy diet and proper usage of mobile phone. Furthermore, several plants have signed some conventions with sports facilities.

Incident rate for permanent workers, as well as temporary workers, is decreasing in all the business units except for Prima Components Italia and in Sole Components, in which it is reported a slight increase of incidents regading permanent workers.

In all Group sites, events such as injuries, accidents and similar incidents are managed by providing an accurate assessment of possible causes, so to set up initiatives to be applied with the purpose of avoiding repetition.

Hitting, crushing and cutting: these are the risky events identified by Prima Components Italia and Prima Components Gricignano d’Aversa, following accurate assessment. In order to eliminate hazards and minimize risks, Prima Components Italia has put in place specific working procedures, which also include appropriate use of DPI, as well as the necessary training and awareness of the issue.

Following the risk assessment, Sole Components has identified fork-lift operation, material handlings and falls as the most hazardous events. In order to minimize these risks, forklift drivers were provided with information and awareness, alongside improvement in signs and markings.

After onsumpti risks inPrima Eastern and Sole Pontedera it was found hazardous fall in the molding department during changing. In order to avoid this risk, in Prima the access platforms have been anchored to the presses by means of bolts and special non-slip rubber mats have been installed.In Pontedera, instead, a walking platform was installed in the molding department and adequate training to operators involved in shift change was given.

In the plants of PSMM Pernambuco and PSC Automotivos new machinery setting is to be considered risky activity, due to an assessment for significant risks of falling, which were reduced thanks to specific platforms development and accurate workers’ training. A further risk is related to suspended loads, which, in the event of a fall, could cause damage to the people below during handling activities. In order to report this potential danger to all resources, in Pernambuco it was installed a red light led reflector, while in the two plants of PSC Automotivos some alarms, which start when machinery is working, are present.

In the plants of Prima Poprad and Twice DE the use of extruders is to be considered at risk, as regards hands cutting which has been assessed as dangerous activity. Access to areas where there are moving parts has been limited and with the purpose of risk reduction also specific training was performed.



The main types of accidents recorded in the Group were bruises, cuts, scratches and crushes; in some cases, also traumas for tripping, injuries and incidents in home-work trip.

KPI of monitoring of Group Performance: incidents