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OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY

Protecting employee health and preventing occupational accidents healthy working environment, complying with safe working rules and
and risk management are our priorities and we also audit the processes, working to prevent and reduce the e ects of occupational
subcontractors for these topics. accidents by using the personal protective equipment designated
In our projects we strive to achieve highest Occupational Health and and assigned to them.
Safety (OHS) standards, comply with all applicable local laws, even Nurol Construction has certified its occupational health and safety
take preventive actions beyond legal requirements. Each of our management with ISO 45001: 2018 Occupational Health and Safety
employees is obliged and aware of the responsibilities of protecting Management System.
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY (OHS) POLICY
As Nurol Construction, we hold monthly Occupational Health and related month. At the end of the meeting, the resolutions of the
Safety and Environment (OHS-E) Board meeting to inform our meeting are recorded and announced for realization. Decisions are
employees about occupational health and safety issues and / or to also announced via bulletin boards.
get their opinions. Project manager, department representatives, As Nurol Construction, in cases where it is not legal obligation to
occupational physician, employee and foremen representatives establish an OHS-E Board (di erent countries, number of
attend the meetings. All employees' opinions on OHS-E issues are employees, etc.), we form an OHS-E Board for the projects and
received and evaluated through employee representatives. hold monthly meetings.
Occupational accidents and near misses during the relevant month, In conducting its activities of production at the highest level of
unsafe movements and situations, emergency preparations, OHS quality, Nurol Construction and Trading Co. Inc. considers the issue of
and environmental actions, periodic controls, training plans and unexceptional protection of occupational health and safety of its
activities, annual occupational health and safety plans and employers and continuous improvement of the working environment
evaluations, employer declarations, open topics for complaints and as one of its main targets. In this context, we commit ourselves to
improvement recommendations are the meeting agenda for the provide and maintain the following conditions:

Provision of elimination of occupational health and safety risks personnel in these processes;
through preventive actions; Provision of training so as to make both direct company personnel
Provision of continuous improvement as regards to OHS issues; and the employees of subcontractors aware of their individual
Strictly obeying the applicable OHS legislation in force, OHS responsibilities;
administrative regulations and conditions of subscribed Periodic review of OHS Policy so as to maintain compliance with
organizations; conditions, OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY PERFORMANCE
Improving participation and consultation procedures of our OHS Reciprocal exchange of OHS experience acquired with public,
Management System and ensuring the involvement of all our private sector entities and non-governmental organisations. We monitor our key performance indicators to keep our OHS total accident frequency and total accident weight ratios are low
performance under control and to continuously improve it. All our compared to our industry.
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY TRAININGS employees, including our subcontractors, are obliged to report any Detailed information and explanations about our OHS performance
work accidents and incidents. Cases are examined and necessary are included in the “Performance Indicators Details” section of our
As we care for raising awareness on Occupational Health and Safety issues and creating experience, we schedule OHS trainings for our precautions and actions are taken. Report, but we share our total accident numbers, frequencies and
employees. Besides; due to the preventive e ects of OHS trainings and the special importance we attach to occupational health and safety, Although our business falls under high-risk occupation class, our weight ratios as below:
we keep training hours intense.
TRAINING HOURS ON OHS ISSUES - 2018 TOTAL ACCIDENTS, FREQUENCY AND RATE - 2018

Total Training Hours Training Hour Per Employee Total Accidents Frequency Rate Total Working Hours
(employee.hour) (hour/employee)
HQ 584,33 8,47 Balıkesir Motorway Project 35 9 3 4.099.945
Balıkesir Motorway Project 15.177,48 33,089 Eyiste Viaduct Project 18 38 8 473.940
Eyiste Viaduct Project 3.795 23 Boukhroufa Dam Project 21 21 11 1.009.623
Boukhroufa Dam Project 3.142,18 13,446
Souk Tleta Dam Project 10 13 13 798.463
Souk Tleta Dam Project 934,50 2,408
All Trainings
We value OHS for our supply chain too, and we included our practices in the Value Chain Management section.
HQ 6.250,75 90,59
Balıkesir Motorway Project 16.014,15 36,58
Eyiste Viaduct Project 3.960 24
Boukhroufa Dam Project 3.737,83 16,24
Souk Tleta Dam Project 1.339,00 4,83

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