Areva - Reference Document 2016

SOCIAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIETAL RESPONSIBILITY

1. Human resources information

1.1.

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY

The 2014-2016 occupational health and safety policy aims for continuous

improvement of occupational health and safety and reinforcement of prevention

actions. Our constant goal is to strive for zero lost time injuries and zero impacts

from our operations on the health and safety of our employees, subcontractor

personnel and the local communities near our sites. AREVA’s commitments are to:

ensure appropriate monitoring of occupational health for all employees by

defining and applying international medical standards for medical surveillance

of occupational hazards, by strengthening governance, by giving increased

attention to the quality of working life, especially as concerns the prevention

of occupational stress, by deploying the group’s occupational health service

in France, and by including specific issues associated with expatriation in the

medical follow-up of employees;

in the field of occupational safety, prevent and manage all industrial risks

associated with our operations for employees and subcontractor personnel.

As the term of this triennial policy has ended it will be adjusted in 2017.

The functioning of the group’s Occupational Health Service has reached maturity.

The first lessons learned have been harvested, in particular by adjusting the

supervisory grid. These decisions were made within the framework of the

governance of the Health Service (National Commission for Follow-up and Control

and Standing National Committee on Occupational Health).

The status of medical resources continues to be an area of attention in view of the

shortage of occupational physicians in France. The group’s service played a key

role by lessening the difficulties encountered at certain sites.

In 2016, AREVA continued the work initiated in 2012 on safety culture.

For the fourth consecutive year, the month of June was Safety Month. During this

period, all of the group’s sites worldwide organized one-day workshops specific

to their risks and operations. By raising awareness and giving opportunities for

discussion, these workshops are helping to strengthen the priority that the group

gives to occupational safety among its partners and employees.

In 2016, the initiative concerning difficult working conditions was broadened

with the addition of six more factors, for a total of ten difficult working conditions

eligible for access to training and flexible work hours for the employees concerned.

This initiative is the subject of a concerted multidisciplined process among the

group’s prevention specialists, lawyers and human resources departments, as well

as dedicated consensus-building with our labor partners, senior management,

corporate departments and business units.

A number of joint working groups have been set up to work with the company’s

labor partners (Health and Safety of Working Conditions Committee [CHSCT]).

Among other things, the subjects reviewed include employee exposure to certain

risks and themanagement of personal protective equipment. These working groups

seek to identify and share best practices in this field. The results of this work are

incorporated into the group’s guidelines and procedures, deepening our safety

culture and helping to improve both working conditions and occupational risk

prevention.

The group’s safety performance is better than the average for the nuclear industry

(frequency rate [FR] of 1.82 for AREVA, 2.6 for EDF and 3.4 for the CEA) (source:

Goupe d’Échanges des Préventeurs Interentreprises, GEPI).

The group will roll out its new proactive triennial health, safety and radiation

protection policy in 2017 to further reduce its lost-time injuries by 2020. The stated

goal is to reduce the lost-time injury rate for AREVA employees from 1.84 to a

sustainable 1. The prevention of occupational stress is integral to this initiative.

AREVA regretfully reported one fatal occupational accident in 2016, compared

with three in 2015. The accident occurred when a pedestrian was hit by a mining

vehicle in Niger. The victim was an AREVA employee. The accident was reviewed

in detail locally over a six-month period, with support from the group’s corporate

offices (Mining Department, Occupational Safety Department, etc.). Two separate

working groups were formed locally and conducted their reviews and investigations

separately. The two reviews were combined to report on the root causes of the

accident to the group and devise a suitable action plan to prevent the recurrence

of this type of event.

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY DATA

Occupational safety data for AREVA employees

2016

2015

Accident frequency rate with lost time (excluding commuting accidents)

1.84

1.44

Accident severity rate (accidents reported during the year, excluding commuting accidents)

0.05

0.04

Number of fatal accidents

The risks associated with radiation and AREVA’s corresponding proactive radiation

protection policy are outlined in Section 4.3.1. on nuclear risk. The average radiation

exposure of AREVA employees over 12 consecutive months remained very low,

at 0.83 mSv in mid-2016, around the same level as the maximum dose limit for

the general public.

Consistent with the group’s objective, no AREVA employee received an individual

dose of more than 20mSv over 12 consecutivemonths. Inmid-2016, themaximum

recorded individual dose over 12 consecutive months was 16.33 mSv, with 88.3%

of AREVA’s employees having received a dose of 0 to 2 mSv and 57.5% having

received a dose of less than the recording level set by regulation, i.e. less than

0.1mSv. By way of comparison, the average annual exposure to naturally occurring

radiation in France is approximately 2.4 mSv (source: IRSN).

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