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OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY

It is very crucial for us that our employees and stakeholders we work corrective action systematic. Concurrently, competent auditor teams OHS-E issues are taken and evaluated with the employee Occupational accidents and near misses during the relevant month,
with are able to return their homes healthy without su ering from conduct annual planned audits of our teams, subcontractors and representatives determined in our projects. Our employee unsafe movements and situations, emergency preparations, OHS and
any occupational accidents. We approach our processes in line with suppliers. We do mentoring in areas open to improvement with representatives are expected to communicate with our blue collar environmental actions, periodic controls, training plans and activities,
the zero accident approach in our organization and underline at every control of compliance with laws and regulations. personnel, who are active on site, to receive their opinions and annual occupational health and safety plans and evaluations,
opportunity that this understanding is an integral part of our culture. Occupational health and safety teams in our projects are although forward them to the board. employer declarations, open topics for complaints and improvement
With this point of view, we try to spread risk-based thinking and experts in their fields, we provide various training opportunities to our Project Manager, Department Representatives, Workplace Doctor, recommendations are the meeting agenda for the related month. At
proactive business conduct in the organization. While planning our teams in order to adapt to current developments and innovations. Employee and Foreman Representatives participate in the OHS the end of the meeting, the resolutions of the meeting are recorded
activities, we act with a preventive perspective and we adhere to the Project OHS teams are operationally linked to HQ Integrated Committees. In our projects, we also organize OHS-E Boards and and announced for implementation. Decisions are also announced via
principle of continuous improvement. Management Systems, all the procedures and instructions meetings, in which our subcontractor companies participate in bulletin boards.
We reflect our corporate culture on Occupational Health and Safety implemented are centrally controlled and systematically occupational safety expert, workplace doctor and site chief.
with our “OHS Policy” and indicate our senior management's implemented in all our projects. We also carry out project-specific
commitments on occupational health and safety in our policy. Being applications in line with the locations and activities where the projects
aware of the importance of leadership in occupational health and are carried out.
safety management, we first emphasize the work of our leaders in In the target programs we create annually, we include occupational
accordance with these rules. We carry out awareness-raising activities health and safety targets, and we follow the implementation status
at every opportunity for our employees and stakeholders to turn of the targets on a monthly basis. We try to take control if there are AS NUROL CONSTRUCTION, IN CASES WHERE IT IS NOT LEGAL
working into a business manner with safe working principles. deviations by giving monthly returns feedback on compliance with the OBLIGATION TO ESTABLISH AN OHS-E BOARD
targets. (DIFFERENT COUNTRIES, NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES, ETC.), WE FORM AN OHS-E
By determining the main hazards that we may encounter in the
workplaces at the planning stage, we conduct risk assessments and BOARD FOR THE PROJECTS AND HOLD MONTHLY MEETINGS.
follow your risk assessments up-to-date with action plans suitable for
the control hierarchy. At the same time, we try to ensure that our
employees are aware of the dangers they may encounter through
these risk assessments. Nurol Construction employees consist of In addition to the committees, OHS meetings are held regularly at the “Headquarter Coordination Meetings” held in our General Directorate
employees who follow the methods and rules we have determined, time intervals determined by each project, and subcontractor OHS and the “Weekly Coordination Meetings” in our projects, we brought
minimize unsafe acts and conditions, and adopt a culture of representatives are also involved in these meetings. Depending on the necessity to include the subject of quality and OHS-E in the first
occupational health and safety, using the equipment and personal the issues, subcontractor project manager/site supervisors are also agenda items. In this way, we think that the occupational health and
protective equipment delivered to it appropriately. The same practices asked to participate. safety speech of all process leaders attending the meeting is a priority
are valid for all employees within the Nurol Construction workspace. In for our corporate culture.
addition to legal training, we provide our employees with job-specific Another platform where we obtain opinions of our employees is
training to increase their awareness. By announcing the "OHS-E “Nurol Construction Family Talks Organizations”. We obtain opinions We share all the occupational health and safety practices we have
Handbook" to all employees in 2020, which we started to work on in of our employees on occupational health and safety, evaluate them conducted with the senior management in quarterly board reports.
In all of our locations, we try to implement practices above legal 2019, we will e ectively convey their responsibilities and rules on and follow their actions in organizations held every 3 months at least. We also present our occupational health and safety performances to
requirements with our ISO 45001:2018 Occupational Health and occupational health and safety. After our handbook, which will be By making a change in 2019 regarding the agenda items of the senior management at annual Management Review meetings.
Safety Management System, as well as meeting the requirements of published with a special character for Nurol Construction, we plan to
the legislation of the country of work. In addition to legal make applications posters, visuals, etc. using the same character.
requirements, if there are other requirements (contract terms,
specifications, etc.) that concern our projects, we periodically review We work to ensure that our employees take an active role in our OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY TRAININGS
our compliance status. We follow the changes occurring in legal occupational health and safety management system, and we attach
requirements up-to-date, and inform our relevant personnel about great importance to informing them about occupational health and We believe that occupational health and safety training is an determined by the legislation. Along with orientation training in our
the changes and their e ects. We periodically review the work on our safety and getting their opinions. In the OHS-E Boards that we important guide for our employees, and we have definitely observed projects, our employees are given specific employment
legal and other requirements as part of the eligibility assessment organize monthly in all our projects, the opinions of our employees on the positive e ect of providing e ective training in accordance with commencement training, where the dangers that may occur in the
works. the needs in OHS practices. We follow up-to-date developments in project region and what needs to be done, the description and
We periodically review our Occupational Health and Safety order to provide trainings in accordance with new technologies and requirements of the job are conveyed. Annual trainings are planned
Management System through internal audits, and follow up the systems in order to raise awareness and raise consciousness among for the emergency, OHS Board and risk assessment teams as required
findings obtained after the audit through our corrective action our employees. We especially consider our activities on site and we by the legislation, and employee representatives are informed by
systematic. After changing our certification company in 2019, we have organize our trainings by focusing on the parts that our employees trainings. We organize professional qualification training for our
successfully completed the recertification audit carried out by the lack. We strive to carry out visually rich interactive training programs. employees for the professions that are required by law. With the same
independent certification body BSI (British Standard Institution). We Considering the implementation status of the trainings planned for perspective, we check the professional competence documents of
regularly check our operations to ensure that our subcontractors and the previous year, we conduct training needs analysis for our trainings subcontractor employees. We conduct on-the-job training before
suppliers we work with are providing services that comply with our that we will carry out during the year and determine our annual starting work in daily activities, and remind our employees of the
corporate culture, commitments and legal requirements on OHS. We training plans according to these analysis. dangers and rules.
support them in order to make improvements in OHS applications in We provide orientation training for all our personnel who are We prefer single-point trainings in order to improve the behavior of
necessary areas. We inspect subcontractor sites on a daily and weekly employed in our headquarter and projects, and then complete the our employees in accordance with the action plans, related to
basis, monitor and report the noncompliances we designate with basic health and safety training, in a frequency and duration as emergencies, which is one of the most important issues. We update

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