Orano - Annual Activity Report 2024 225 SUSTAINABILITY STATEMENT 4 Social and societal information The transport of radioactive materials is subject to planned or unannounced inspections and checks by the competent authorities as well as the Orano Transport Supervision Department. Orano organizes around 200 inspections per year around the world to ensure compliance with applicable regulations. Orano’s staff or its subcontractors involved in the handling and transport of radioactive materials also receive appropriate training in radiation protection and are subject to dosimetric monitoring. An ambitious industrial safety action plan with special focus on mining sites Following several significant events relating to industrial safety (fire, uncontrolled gas emissions), which had no impact on our mining operations, an ambitious action plan was launched in 2020 to provide mining sites with a system equivalent to the existing industrial safety management system for French SEVESO establishments. In 2024, significant progress was made to reduce the risk of major accidents. Among them, the implementation of a strengthened protocol for the management of risk control measures (MMR) at McClean Lake in Canada. These procedures help prioritize equipment repairs even better. These actions also help to limit the impact and likelihood of an accidental spill with potential consequences for the environment, which is discussed in Section 4.2.4. Emergency and crisis management Orano is also equipped with a crisis management system to manage emergency situations, both for the safety and security of facilities and for the protection of employees, the public, and the environment. Around 100 exercises are organized each year, including some with government agencies and supervisory authorities. The nuclear sites have response teams available on site 24 hours a day. These teams are trained and conduct drills in all types of emergency or safety situation. Since 2015, Orano has also had an Orano National Intervention Force (FINA) made up of nearly 500 volunteers from all entities, trained and ready to provide assistance in their area of expertise in the event of a major incident on a group site. Orano is constantly adapting its crisis management system to new threats. Since the period of health emergency, Orano has strengthened the resilience of its crisis organization, in particular by implementing procedures for the remote rigging of its group’s national command and decision center (PCD-N). 2024 assessment of the HSE policy in terms of nuclear and industrial safety and main guidelines for 2025 In 2024, priority was given to the following subjects or topics: ● the continuation of a managerial program to strengthen the safety leadership of group managers, with more than 600 people made aware or trained, and the deployment of a sequence to anchor the expected behaviors in the field; ● strengthening the level of nuclear safety and industrial security culture of the group’s employees and external partner companies through the mainstreaming of progress actions, projects around a just and fair culture, and work carried out within GIFEN; ● improving the capitalization of feedback with the implementation of new indicators and the improvement of existing systems for analyzing the root causes of organizational and human failures observed during events; ● the skills development of HSE teams with the introduction of training on organizational and human factors, training dedicated to experienced safety engineers and training on the fundamentals of the environment; ● the continuous improvement of the group’s and sites’ safety and security standards and associated methodologies, in particular work on probabilistic safety assessments, external risks (temperatures, lightning, earthquakes) and taking climate change into account. 2024 IN ACTION: An ambitious safety leadership training program In order to equip the managerial line with safety leadership skills, an ambitious program of peer-to-peer sharing of practices, developed with the Institut de Culture de sécurité industrielle, the HSE department and the Orano School of Management, has benefited, since mid-2022, nearly 200 directors, including members of the Executive Committee, and more than 400 managers. This program will be extended to local managers in 2025. Safety of products and services through quality control The quality of products and services is a key factor for safety and success. With its sights set on being a major player in the nuclear industry, Orano refuses to compromise on quality. As part of its Quality 2024-2026 policy, Orano therefore undertakes to: ● learn from experiential feedback to strengthen the group’s Quality culture and improve performance; ● be committed to customer satisfaction in terms of qualitycost-deadline performance and without compromising nuclear safety; and ● bring together the interests of Orano and its suppliers to ensure control of supplies and subcontracting.
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