At the end of 2019, Ferrovial’s Board of Directors approved its 2020-2024 Health, Safety and Wellbeing Strategy, which is implemented through annual plans and focused on four strategic elements: leadership, competence, resilience and engagement. By 2022, the plan establishes for each pillar:

LEADERSHIP

Objective: workers inspire, care for and are rigorous in complying with health, safety and wellbeing measures.

Ferrovial is committed to the health, safety and wellbeing of its employees, and each employee must be a leader in this area to make a difference. Under this premise, the company seeks to inspire people to reorient their leadership, how they approach and enforce it. In 2022, a variety of different initiatives have been rolled out:

• Health, Safety and Wellbeing Awards: reward and recognition are central to the strategy. Therefore, under the Chairman’s sponsorship, a new edition has been held, in which 241 candidatures were submitted for the three existing categories: 128 for the best leader in health, safety and wellbeing; 81 for the high-performance team; and 32 for the best innovative technical solution implemented.
• 254 health and safety “leaders” (directors and managers, not H&S staff) have implemented 3,329 leadership initiatives, 167% of the target. In addition, all members of the Management Committee and leadership team have an individual commitment to health, safety and wellbeing by 2022.
• The company has continued with Executive Incident Reviews for high potential events and learning from them, taking the needed actions.

COMPETENCY

Objective: to ensure that teams are competent, trained and empowered to perform their duties.

The “License to Operate” program launched in 2020, which aims to identify critical health, safety and wellbeing positions, for which a series of specific competencies are defined in order to be able to perform these roles continues to operate. To reinforce this initiative, the Safety Leadership for Supervisors and Managers (SLSM) program was launched in 2022, in collaboration with Safety Futures, focus on training safety leaders, giving them with the tools to supervise safety, qualifying them to influence, advise, guide, direct and manage, and enabling them to develop basic leadership and safety management skills. This enables front-line leaders to understand, communicate and drive health, safety and wellbeing at Ferrovial.

The program is aimed at developing five core capabilities: involving people and teams, collaborative work planning, working safely in risky situations, supervising and leading, and facilitating learning through 12 missions divided into 3 sections: human performance in action, supervision in practice and personal capstone project.

RESILIENCE

Objective: Ferrovial is prepared to protect its employees, stakeholders and divisions in adverse circumstances.

Ferrovial continues to focus on High Potential Events, events with the potential to have caused a fatal or catastrophic accident but which have been avoided. All of them are reported and analyzed weekly by the Management Committee, carrying out an Executive Review of each one of them, extracting lessons learned. The following stand out:

• Continue with planned vs. actual initiative to increase employee engagement.
• Roll out the Safety Leadership Program for Supervisors and Managers.
• Safety campaigns.
• Critical control toolkits.

On the other hand, the current indicators have also continued to be monitored. In 2022, 68,132 inspections and audits were carried out and 335,763 hours of health and safety training were provided. Thanks to the improvement actions implemented and the commitment of all employees, the frequency rate has decreased by 63.6% compared to last year.

COMMITMENT

Objective: to generate a learning environment that promotes knowledge sharing, innovation and effective communication.

To make the strategy effective, each employee must play a relevant role. Therefore, each employee is inspired, motivated and empowered to make a difference and create safer workplaces. In 2022, the following initiatives have been launched under this pillar of the strategy:

• II Ferrovial Health, Safety and Wellbeing Week, sponsored by the Chairman and supported by the CEO. Continuing with “Always Safe, Always Ready” culture launched last year, with a focus on leadership team, middle management and supervisors’engagement with the front-line workers with the claim “I’m in”.

• Employee health and wellbeing:
  • HASAVI’s health and wellbeing program has been redefined and launched United Heroes, a wellbeing platform where all employees have access to various materials related to physical activity, emotional wellbeing, nutrition and other health and wellness topics.
  • Global Network of Wellness Ambassadors: more than 90 employee volunteers around the world to communicate, identify needs, find solutions, and launch and promote specific initiatives related to health and wellbeing at the local level.
  • Different initiatives and actions related to mental health, cancer prevention, obesity prevention and cardiovascular disease prevention.

COMMITMENT TO INNOVATION

For Ferrovial, innovation is a lever for change to improve Health, Safety and Wellbeing performance. The work started in 2018 on the Safety Lab has continued, to turn it into a tool that provides solutions to the challenges faced by workers on a day-to-day basis and in all work centers.