A.P.A. S.p.A., in carrying out its activities, consider health and safety at work an indispensable and important value of its business and its development, fully commit to:

• pursue the goal of zero accidents, implementing the prevention and protection measures necessary to eliminate the dangers and reduce the risks that can cause accidents and occupational diseases;
• promote the development of a work environment that favours the psychophysical well-being of workers;
• ensure compliance with the provisions of the applicable laws on Health and Safety at Work and any additional regulations or voluntary agreements signed;
• encourage the maximum participation of its workers and collaborators in prevention and improvement actions, involving all company levels;
• ensure adequate communication and collaboration with external interested parties;
• Pursue a constant improvement of the efficiency of the system, in such a way to guarantee the improvement of the performance concerning the health and safety at work;

Through the application of an occupational health and safety management system compliant with the requirements of the UNI ISO 45001 standard, the Management of APA S.p.A. aims to achieve the following specific objectives:

• Guarantee the constant observation of the legal prescriptions and applicable rules as well as the eventual non-binding agreements to which A.P.A. S.p.A. has decided to adhere;
• Ensure an attentive and constant identification and assessment of all the risks for the health and safety of the persons that work at and for the account of A.P.A. S.p.A.
• establish, plan and implement suitable measures to eliminate and, where not possible, reduce the risks to the health and safety of workers;
• Identify and carry out procedures and work methods fit to guarantee the safety of the persons that work at and for the account of A.P.A. S.p.A.
• Guarantee the efficiency, the reliability and the safety of the machines, the tools, the infrastructures and the used facilities, both considering the technological opportunities available at the moment of purchase, and guaranteeing the right measures of control and maintenance;
• Obtain the maximum collaboration from the staff in optimizing and in improving the safety at work through activities of communication, information, consultancy, participation, formation and surveillance;
• Promote a collaboration and cooperation with the own suppliers of products, activities and services in order to guarantee the safety at work through procedures of evaluation, selection, communication, information and surveillance;
• accurately manage any accidents, injuries, emergencies and non-conformities through the analysis of the causes and the implementation of corrective and improvement actions;
• adopt appropriate evaluation and monitoring systems for the management system to ensure its effective application and continuous improvement

The research process to continuously improve can only be generated by the participation of the human resources present in the company. For this, all organising levels are bound, in the area of their own competence, to observe what is expected by the Safety System of A.P.A. S.p.A.

This policy is made available to all parties involved and is divulged to all the staff working for and on behalf of A.P.A. S.p.A.

The General Management
Rev.01 – 16/11/2020