Annual identification and risk assessments are conducted for workplaces. The results are used to create a risk registry and list significant health and safety risks, followed by the development of risk mitigation measures.

Risks are analyzed based on their probability and impact, identifying key risks that could negatively affect KEGOC JSC’s operations and strategic goals. Qualitative or quantitative analysis, or their combination, is used in risk assessment. All KEGOC JSC employees are involved in identifying, assessing, and analyzing hazardous and harmful factors.

Risk assessment and analysis, along with management, are carried out to set goals in occupational safety and health management and achieve an acceptable level of impact on the environment and KEGOC JSC employees.

The results serve as input for developing target and planned indicators. Assessment and analysis are based on activity types and hazard classifiers applicable to KEGOC JSC’s activities, considering geography and climate, and include:

• Hazard and risk identification based on classifiers;
• Risk assessment with existing control measures in place;
• Identification of additional necessary risk management measures;
• Assessment of whether risk management measures are sufficient to reduce risk to an acceptable level.

To assess the level of organization of safe working conditions for employees at ­KEGOC JSC, the LTIFR (Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate) coefficient is used, ­including fatalities (FAR), related to work activities. In global practice, LTIFR is a key indicator of occupational safety and industrial safety performance. The indicator reflects the number of lost time injuries (LTI) relative to the total hours worked in the Company (Work Hours, WH) normalized to 1 million man-hours. The LTIFR for 2023 was 0.13 (7,578,400 person-hours worked). Without taking into account the data of Energoinform JSC, the lost time injury frequency rate is 0.15 (0.45 in 2022).

In the event of incidents, Company employees follow rules regulating the processes of incident investigation, incident and safety reporting.

The causes of work-related accidents inherent to the Company’s activities are:

• falls from heights;
• electric shock;
• road traffic accidents.

There were no work-related fatalities in 2023.

One work-related accident occurred on October 3, 2023, in the ‘Severnye MES’ branch during work on the 500kV transmission line ‘Ekibastuzskaya-Semey,’ resulting in an employee’s leg injury due to a sudden tension of the pull rope caused by a wire fall due to insulator rupture. After first aid was provided (fixation of the broken leg, application of sterile bandages to the abdominal and leg wounds), the injured employee was taken to the hospital. The special investigation report identified the main causes as equipment design deficiencies, resulting in the destruction of a single suspension insulator in the overhead line suspension hardware installed by a subcontractor.

Corrective measures were developed based on the accident investigation to prevent similar incidents.

When work is performed on KEGOC JSC’s facilities by contracting and outstaffing organizations, the Company is responsible for ensuring the safety of their employees. KEGOC JSC’s contracts with contracting and outstaffing organizations include obligations to fully comply with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan and KEGOC JSC’s internal documents on safety and health when performing work and providing services.

Before starting work, introductory meetings are held with representatives of the contracting organizations. Access to work is granted on-site. Prior to accessing the workplace, all employees of the contracting organizations undergo briefings. Specifically, responsible work supervisors conduct briefings on electrical installation schemes. During daily access, targeted briefings are conducted, indicating safety measures, hazardous and harmful production factors present at the Company’s facilities.

KEGOC JSC ensures internal control over the compliance of contracting organizations’ personnel with the legal acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan and KEGOC JSC’s internal documents when performing work and providing services at the Company’s production facilities. The Company also evaluates the contracting organizations’ performance in the field of safety and health. Thus, all employees of contracting and outstaffing organizations (100%) working at the Company’s facilities are covered by KEGOC JSC’s health and safety management system.

In 2023, no accidents and fatalities among employees of contractors and outstaffing organizations related to work activities at our facilities were recorded.