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We manage all the the Workplace Physician, Yoga Day, and in accordance with our zero accident
OHS processes in Breathing Workshop. Furthermore, we target are maintained. We manage all
compliance with created Teams groups to bring together the OHS processes in compliance with
the ISO 45001 Aygaz employees with similar interests. the ISO 45001 Occupational Health and
Safety Management System, which we
All employees can contact the Human
Occupational Resources team by email, quickly seek have applied since 2019. We operate at
Health and Safety and find support. 12 locations, including the Head Office,
Management the Gebze Plant, and other facilities,
System, which we Remuneration, Benefits and Flexible all holding ISO 45001 Occupational
Health and Safety Management System
Working
have applied since The remuneration policy, determined Certification. The Quality System,
2019. We operate in line with the company’s current HSE-S and Industry Relations Manager
at 12 locations, wage structure, position in the market, reports the OHS actions taken and
including the competition, and financial means, planned in the business units and the
is applied fairly without any bias for
OHS performances to the Assistant
Head Office, the gender, language, religion, and race, General Manager - Technical Affairs and
Gebze Plant, and and is based on the “equal pay for Investments, the highest level executive
other facilities, all equal work” approach. Remuneration responsible for OHS.
holding ISO 45001 for unionized employees is determined
certification. according to the collective bargaining The facilities and work sites have
OHS committees, which consist of
agreements with MESS (Turkish
Employers Association of Metal members representing the employees
Industries) and the Turkish Metal Union in those locations. We regularly monitor
for the employees working in the metal and report our OHS performance.
business lines or Turkish Seamen’s Union Furthermore, the committees
for the seafaring employees. Employees consisting of employer representatives,
are paid 12 salaries + 4 bonuses per occupational safety experts,
year, while all employees are offered workplace physicians, employees,
comprehensive fringe benefits of Koç employee representatives, and union
Group, standard or varied depending on representatives in some facilities
the position. address the OHS issues on a monthly
basis and draw up improvement plans.
At Aygaz, we promote a healthy
work-life balance for the employees We prepare Accident Investigation and
as we quickly adapt our ways of doing Root Cause Analysis reports after all
business to the future. Accordingly, we workplace accidents. Based on these
adopt the future of work trends and reports, we review the root causes of
offer our employees flexible and hybrid the accident and take the necessary
working opportunities. precautions. As part of our accident
prevention activities, we periodically
Occupational Health and conduct fire, evacuation, rescue, and
Safety chemical spill drills at the Head Office,
Providing a healthy and safe work Gebze Plant, the filling plants, and the
environment for our employees is a key cylinder filling facilities. Our approach
priority for us. The LPG sector, as our to preventing OHS risks is not limited
primary field of operations, is known to to training and drills. We also create
contain many OHS risks, which we strive and distribute Informative Brochures
to manage most effectively. For this on Workplace Accidents to ensure that
purpose, we deliver training programs accidents do not reoccur.
to raise OHS awareness among the
employees and the subcontractors. We In 2021, we delivered a total of
ensure that the measures implemented 19,801 person*hours of training
against the OHS risks we have identified to the employees of Aygaz and