Our People
Health and Safety
GRI 403-1
Algar Telecom keeps the Liga da Segurança (“Safety League”) project, focused on instilling a risk management culture for personal and business safety at every level of seniority (both for employees and for suppliers); changing mindsets and introducing new habits; and contributing to value creation for the business by means of good safety practices. The change management model covers matters such as occupational safety, information and infrastructure security, and across-the-board issues of sustainability. The initiative is managed by the Project Management Office (PMO) and affects rules, policies, procedures, the definition and communication of responsibilities, the safety management support structure and monitoring and control activities.
In parallel, to promote the health and safety of employees, the Algar Group has its Algar + Health Program, which acts to prevent disease and improve quality of life, for example with awareness campaigns, regular check-ups and medical and nutritional supervision, among other practices. The Program produces statistics on the condition of employees’ health, which enables specific projects to be planned and implemented.
We also provide a Specialist Occupational Health and Safety Engineering Service (SESMT), which has a multidisciplinary team (consisting of safety technicians and engineers, doctors, nurses, social workers, nutritionists, speech and hearing specialists, psychologists and physiotherapists) and Internal Accident-Prevention Committees (CIPAs), whose mission is to observe and report situations of risk in the workplace and to propose ways of minimizing them. Members of the CIPAs are nominated by the company and elected by the employees, and there is one in every operating unit with more than 50 employees. In 2018, 97% of the employees were represented by CIPAs.
Other important teams for this issue are the Ergonomics and Healthcare Committee created to undertake ergonomic analyses of workstations, and the Fire Brigade, which complies with Rule 23 from the Labor Inspection Agency, as well as technical instruction by the fire service of each regional office and carries out simulated evacuations in accordance with state legislation.
We prevent and repudiate the use of child labor, forced labor or labor analogous to slavery which violates indigenous rights. We do not hire minors, except as apprentices, nor do we have people working in unhealthy locations. Our agreements with suppliers include specific conditions on these matters. We monitor the companies we engage and demand to see their documentation (such as employment cards, health checks and receipts for payment of legal obligations), and we consult the list of companies involved in slave labor issued by the Ministry of Labor and Employment, as well as making visits to company premises. No cases of human rights violations were registered in 2018.
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