Occupational Health and Safety
Significance
Workplace safety is the utmost target for operations since unsafe working may cause losses of lives and assets, as well as have an impact on the environment and employee’s health. As a result, creating a safety culture to proactively prevent accidents must be carried out and improved regularly for example, arranging a safe working environment, setting up clear preventive measures, monitoring safety performances, fostering knowledge and raising awareness, as well as drawing participations from all employees and involved parties.
A safe workplace environment is counted as the human rights of which employees, contractors and those entering the areas should get sufficiently and equally. In addition, promoting employee participation in expressing their ideas to improve their workplace conditions will finally help in creating their contributions, encouragements and engagements with the organizations.
2025 Target
• The working environment fully complies with all legal standards.
• There have been no severe accidents or work-related illnesses among employees or contractors.
• The Tier-1 Process Safety Event Rate is zero.
Management Approach
BPP has focused on cultivating a safety culture within the organization with the ‘3 ZEROs’ target as followings:
To meet the afore-mentioned targets, BPP has conducted its OHS operations in alignment with following safety management approaches.
- Duty and Responsibility on Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) BPP executives, ranging from the highest to operational levels, are committed and responsible for creating work safety. The procedure starts from construction designs to operations, prevention and collection of unsafe working conditions and behaviors. This includes setting up the short- and long-term safety goals, as well as being a role model for safety. Additionally, all employees have duties to create a safe working environment for each other, which is defined as a performance indicator for both senior executives and operational-level employees.
- Compliance with Applicable Laws, Regulations and Safety Operation Standard BPP is rigidly complying with applicable laws and safety best practices. Compliance with applicable laws and safety regulations is regularly examined, while the internationally recognized safety management standards have been implemented at all BPP’s production units.
- Safety Risks Management BPP assesses OHS risks in all work aspects. All of its business units have measures to prevent and mitigate risks related to safety appropriately. For operations having high possibility of severe risks, the risk-mitigation plan must be created in managing risks to the appetite level.
- Cultivating Safety Culture BPP has fostered and paid great values on creating a safety culture among its employees and contractors in all areas where it has operated. It recognizes the safety focused behavior by integrating safety conducts into a corporate culture. At BPP, employees and contractors care for each other and dare to warn each other if they see unsafe working behaviors.
- Encouraging Employees to Own Adequate Knowledge and Expertise in OHS BPP encourages and educates its employees and contractors about OHS so as to make them have adequate OHS related knowledge able to work safely. It also frequently examines and reviews employee’s OHS understandings.
- Innovation and Safety Technology BPP promotes an adoption of innovations and advanced technologies to further improve its safety operation standards to be better, such as measuring work environment and reporting security risks.
BPP records its safety statistics, covering all workers who are in the scope of control work and control workplace. Those workers are employees, contractors, and persons who are permitted to enter the operational areas. For operators who are not in the scope of control work or control workplace, BPP will note such accidents, but will not include them in the accident statistic calculation.
2025 Performance
- In 2025, the power plants in which BPP has management control, had no fatalities caused by working, while there was no worker stopping working due to serious injuries (Zero LTIFR).
- BPP has implemented the ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Management System, which has been integrated into the ISO 9001 Quality Management System as well as the ISO 14001 Environmental Management System. In addition, the 3 combined heat and power (CHP) plants in China have been certified by those three management system standards from external agencies. Meanwhile, Temple Gas–fired Power Plant in the United States, has operated in accordance with occupational health and safety management system standards according to U.S. legislations, governed by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
- BPP focuses on cultivating a proactive and systematic safety culture by providing a safe working environment, organizing training and creating safety awareness for its employees, such as:
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Employee’s Health Promotion |
- Evaluating the level of work safety culture.
- Organizing training and testing safety, environment, safety rules and risks in the areas prior to starting to work, including rigorously reviewing such conduct and rules at a defined time.
- Promoting workplace safety and inspecting operating areas carried out by top management continuously.
- Arranging work safety inspection executed by employees, supervisors, and safety officers during operations.
- Regularly measuring working environment to ensure safety and reporting the results for improvement.
- Setting up the safety improvement committees for offices and power plants.
- To raise safety awareness, communication through various activities was conducted for involved parties, such as organizing a safety day activity, safety promotional emails, games, posters, etc.
- Conducting the emergency simulation exercises continuously and using the exercise results for improvement.
- Organizing safety day activities to communicate safety goals and raise awareness among employees, partners, and contractors.
- Motivating employees to work safely via incentives, such as special rewards for persons who have outstanding safety operations, and celebrations on common achievements, etc.
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- Arranging the annual health check for employees, including physical fitness measurements according to risks arising from the nature of work.
- Measuring work environment in both offices and production units and enhancing working conditions continuously to meet the standards.
- Providing the health insurance for treatments and seeking cooperation to get the provision of vaccines for employees, such as influenza vaccines, and the COVID–19 vaccines.
- Fostering employees to exercise and maintain good health, such as setting up sports clubs, providing health-related knowledge, including arranging an individual exercise trainer for interested staff etc.
- Organizing sports competitions between employees and contractors.
- Initiating a psychological consultation project called “iSTRONG” for employees, allowing them to consult with the external psychological service provider regarding mental matters to reduce stresses from personal life and work. All data consulted will be kept confidentially.
- Online doctor visit project: The project accommodates employees to meet the online doctor via “Health at Work” application. Through this platform, employees can make an appointment and have a preliminary check with the doctor online. Then, the doctor will prescribe the medicines and deliver them to that staff.
- Nursing room and first aids services: The services are provided by registered nurses who can diagnose basic illnesses, prescribe medicines, dress wounds, and provide health advices.
- The “Flexible Benefit” project was created to support an annual budget of THB 12,000 for employees to use in various benefits, inclusion of health, such as expenses for additional medical treatments, sports club membership fees, and devices to facilitate ergonomic working from home, etc.
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Key Activities and Projects
To raise safety standards and enhance operational efficiency, a CHP plant in China has developed a smart helmet, which is equipped with advanced digital technologies, including real–time video recording, imaging, voice communication, helmet removal and bumping alerts, virtual area demarcation, operation route recording & reviewing, and integrated lighting.
In 2025, Luannan CHP Plant utilized 48 smart helmets in high–risk activities, such as maintenance, operations, and coal management by providing training on using smart helmets to all users. In addition, regulations for managing smart helmets have been established to ensure consistent use standards throughout the organization.
Presently, employees can use various functions efficiently, while supervisors and safety officers can utilize the management system to closely monitor, control, and support operations. As of September 30, 2025:
- Smart helmets were used for a total of 5,455 times.
- 65 safety risks were reported via imaging system.
- Video and real–time communication systems were used 10 times for remote guidance and emergency responses.
- Supervisors detected 14 unsafe working conditions or behaviors.
- Four video reviews were conducted to improve work processes.
Objectives
- To improve the effectiveness of operations, maintenance, emergency response, and accident assistance.
Investment USD 10,043
Benefits
- Improving operational efficiency and reducing accidental risks.
- Enabling timely detection and corrective actions of abnormalities.
- Strengthening the organization’s safety culture.
Social Contributions
- Supporting compliance with occupational health and safety laws and standards.
Banpu Group places the highest priority on employee safety. On December 2, 2025, the annual Safety Day 2025 under the theme of Safety is Priceless, was held, with over 100 employees participating via both on-site and online. The event included various activities to promote the workplace safety knowledge among Banpu personnel, such as:
The activity and mini-games booth provided knowledge on workplace safety.
- A platform for knowledge sharing with senior executives, where each executive shared experiences from real-life workplace accidents, along with prevention strategies and safety values that employees should uphold.
- Activities demonstrated safety promotion in communities near operational sites, such as sharing safety guidelines, improving roads in Vietnam’s wind turbine areas, and offering first aid training for staff.
- A special lecture on the topic of The Invisible Threat: Microplastics was conducted by an external expert to provide knowledge on the origins of microplastics, the silent threat they pose to human health, and ways to reduce risks in daily life.
Objectives
- Raising awareness and creating a safety culture among employees of Banpu Group.
- Enhancing employee skills and readiness in preventing workplace accidents and in dealing with emerging risks.
Benefits
- Increasing awareness and creating proactive safety behaviors among participating employees, enabling them to better assess risks and perform tasks more safely in their daily life and at the workplace.
- Participants gained accurate knowledge and understanding of workplace safety, including accident prevention techniques and emergency response through real-life case studies.
Zouping Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Plant has initiated a project called the Safety Star, a role model in safety. The power plant has established clear activity plans and award criteria and communicated them to all employees. This project has been continuously run throughout the year, of which key activities are as follows:
Conducting the monthly safety hazard and risk assessments by giving opportunities for all employees to participate, inclusive of awarding outstanding employees the Hazard Inspection Talent prize.
Recognizing the outstanding teams of the month as safety role models.
- A skill competition in using tools and equipment.
- Fire extinguishing equipment training.
- CPR training and practical exercises.
- Competition in work permits knowledge and high-risk work practices.
- A knowledge competition on electrical safety procedures.
- Activities related to China’s fire safety awareness month.
The project was proceeded according to plan, with all 246 employees participating, representing 100% of the total workforce. Awards were given to individuals or teams with outstanding safety performance. Furthermore, BPP received 107 safety hazard and risk reports from employees (data as of September 30, 2025), reflecting a tangible increase in safety participation and awareness.
Objectives
- To manage and reduce safety risks in operations.
- To enhance knowledge, awareness, and promote employee participation in cultivating a safety culture.
Investment USD 10,000
Benefits
- Preventing accidents and violations of legal safety regulations.
- Fostering a safety culture and sharing responsibility within the organization.
Social Contributions
- Supporting compliance with laws and safety standards.
BPP has conducted annual reviews and assessments of its safety culture continuously. In 2025, this annual review and evaluation was carried out at the Zhengding Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Plant. The safety culture assessment began with a safety perception survey to evaluate employees’ attitudes and safety mindsets. This was followed by an appraisal of working environment and operations in the workplace to evaluate the power plant’s safety maturity level.
The assessment results showed that Zhengding CHP Plant received an average score of 3.56, placing it at the 4th Level (Cooperating) from five levels in terms of safety excellence. This demonstrates the power plant’s outstanding performance in organizational safety promotion, policy setting and strategic planning, communication, and the commitment and exemplary conduct of management.
Based on the assessment results, Zhengding CHP Plant has developed an improvement plan to enhance its occupational health and safety management system, as well as continuously improving the working environment and processes.
Objectives
- To continuously develop and improve safety measures.
- To cultivate and sustain a safety culture.
Investment USD 845
Benefits
- Systematically strengthening a safety culture, reflecting the continuous improvement of safety performance.
- Enhancing the corporate image as the organization putting top priority on safety and social responsibility.
Social Contributions
- Upgrading the safety of both employees and contractors and supporting compliance with relevant safety laws and standards.
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