Olympia Odos participated once again in the VINCI Group’s Health & Safety Week and carried out information and awareness-raising actions for employees and partners, in order to promote its main objective, which is “Zero Accidents”.
VINCI Concessions, the main shareholder of Olympia Road, held the Health and Safety Week this year with the message “SPOT & STOP”, that is, “detect and stop” risks at work.
This year’s actions were carried out around 2 pillars.
- Climate Change: a phenomenon that worries us more and more, as it is constantly intensifying, affecting working conditions in the countryside.
- The rapid development of technology and science. We looked for new tools and technologies to implement new, safer practices and to monitor the measures we already have in place.
In particular, we held training sessions in our offices on fire, seismic protection, building evacuation authorities, as well as a Health and Safety Day with the participation of employees, subcontractors and partners of the company. In parallel, we organised a photo competition on the topic of good safety practices in field work.
Panagiotis Papanikolas, President and CEO of Olympia Odos, said: “VINCI Health and Safety Week is an excellent opportunity to see where we stand on these issues and set new goals. We are called to shape a working structure by intervening and changing processes whenever necessary. We use new-age tools and adopt new practices, while respecting the environment.”
The Conference was attended by innovative companies and entities, such as OPTIMAL, which highlighted how workers perceive the environment and risks through neuroscience and how we can communicate safety rules more effectively. The companies MANAGEMENT FORCE GROUP, HYPERTECH SA and STOP highlighted new tools to improve working conditions and increase health and safety levels.
The Hellenic Institute for Occupational Health and Safety (ELINYAE) has been with us for another year and has emphasized the importance of Occupational Health and Safety in light of new data. Specifically, on behalf of ELINYAE, Minas Analytis emphasized, among other things: “Prevention is a continuous process with an interdisciplinary approach and in this sense requires perseverance and patience from its participants, with the ultimate goal of reducing occupational risk and improving working conditions, so that everyone feels that they are working in a safe environment.”
Watch the videos of the Safety Week actions here: