Banco de Sabadell S A : Workplace Health and Safety Report 2022

Occupational Risk

Prevention Directorate

Annual Report 2022

March 2023

Contents

1.	Introduction	3
2.	Organisation	4

1. Prevention plan
2. State Committee on Health and Safety (CESS)
3. Preventive coordination between companies

1. Exchange of documentation
2. Key data

1. eGestiona Support Office
2. CAE Access Control Pilot Test
3. Complementary CAE management

1. Training / information

1. Training activities
2. Information channels

1. Employee Assistance Office
2. ORP Checklist in branches

1. Global data
2. Analysis of results by item
3. 2022 Results. Analysis according to scores by branch

3. Safety

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1. Risk assessments

1. Results of the 2022 assessments
2. Deficiencies associated with the workplace and position
3. Other assessments

1. Accident rate

1. Accident frequency rate
2. Accident rates by GBS companies
3. Location of accidents
4. Degree of injury of accidents
5. Causes of accidents
6. Accident rate by gender
7. Accident rate by age
8. Accident rate in branch network, Central Services and subsidiaries
9. Corrective/prevention actions taken

1. Self-protectionplans
2. Cardio protection plan
3. Workplace visits
4. Improvement actions in branches

4. Industrial hygiene

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4.1 Environmental measurements

1. Deficiency management
2. Hygiene assessments

5. Ergonomics and	28
psycho-sociology

1. Ergonomics
2. Psycho-sociology

1. Context analysis
2. Quantitative results
3. Preventive measures

6. Health surveillance

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1. Medical examinations

1. Details of the MEs carried out by company
2. Results of the proficiency reports derived from the MEs
3. Psycho-socialhealth surveillance
4. SPA service quality assessment

1. Management of particularly sensitive personnel
2. Absenteeism

1. General absenteeism
2. Absenteeism with temporary incapacity

(TI) arising from common contingency (CC) and occupational contingency (CP)

6.3.3 Mutual insurance society management

(MATEPSS)

1. Occupational epidemiology
2. Health-relatedactivities and welfare
3. COVID-19

1. Presentation 2. Organisation 3. Safety 4. Industrial hygiene 5. Ergonomics and Psycho-sociology 6. Health surveillance

1. Introduction

It gives me great pleasure to present you with the Annual Report on Risk Prevention Activities carried out by the Banco Sabadell Group. These activities fall within the framework of the programmes included in the Group's Prevention Plan and are oriented both towards regulatory compliance and the implementation of the the company's risk prevention management system, thus promoting the integration of risk prevention into the organisational structure of the group's companies.

I would also like to express my appreciation to all those people in different departments, Maintenance, Digital Workplace, Safety, Organisation, People, etc. who take on responsibilities in this area in a coordinated manner.

The Joint Prevention Service (hereinafter SPM) of the Banco Sabadell Group was set up in July 2001. At present, there are ten of us who make up the Occupational Risk Prevention Department reporting to Human Resources. Our mission in the group is to assess risks and provide advice to the management bodies, company staff, their legal representatives and the specialised Health and Safety Committee representative

bodies, with the support and coordination necessary to carry out occupational risk prevention activities, guaranteeing appropriate protection of the staff's health and safety.

The year 2022 began with the peak of the sixth wave of SARS-CoV-2, the largest of them all. The protection afforded by the high vaccination rates of the national population together with the risk prevention policies put in place have enabled us to end the year with moderate absenteeism rates due to illness.

The revival of business activity has boosted innovation, also in improving the health and safety conditions of staff. In 2022 we can consider the methodology incorporated into medical examinations for psycho-social health surveillance. Its aim is to assess the possible impact of stress on the health of our staff, an aspect in which we are pioneers at the national level and which is starting to be applied in other companies.

As Professor Enrique Dans said,

"The value of innovation is not in avoiding being copied, but in getting everyone to want to copy you"

Joan Lluch Orta

Head, Occupational Risk Prevention

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1. Presentation 2. Organisation 3. Safety 4. Industrial hygiene 5. Ergonomics and Psycho-sociology 6. Health surveillance

2. Organisation

2.1 Prevention plan

The Prevention Plan is the roadmap for health and safety in the Banco Sabadell Group (hereinafter, GBS), through which the prevention policy that will determine the management model to be followed is declared. The plan brings together a set of resources, roles, responsibilities and best practices, under the premise of a cross-organisational and integrated model throughout the organisational structure to achieve the best results.

Although the guidelines and good occupational risk prevention practices are laid down by the Occupational Risk Prevention Directorate (DPRL) (legally constituted as the Joint Prevention Service of the GBS), those responsible for ORP at the branch, regional and national level play a key role which, together with the commitment of the centralised units, makes it possible to have safe and healthy working environments.

This integrative model is the key to the occupational risk prevention.

The Branch Risk Prevention and Safety Manager (hereinafter referred to as RPSO, in its initials in Spanish) is the person who is aware of the safety conditions in his or her office and who, thanks to his or her training, commitment and available resources, contribute to generating safe and healthy workplaces.

The DPRL (Occupational Risk Prevention Department) assesses risks and plans actions for improvement so that the technical departments, and in some cases RPSOs, implement them in a timely manner. In the branch design and procurement phase the team provides the necessary advice and support.

The set of procedures that make up the Prevention Plan is subject to the following a periodic review in the form of an annex. This year, 53 procedures have been reviewed, 22 of which have been amended and 1 has been incorporated.

2.2 State Committee on Health and Safety (CESS)

Banco de Sabadell, S.A. has constituted a State Health and Safety Committee (hereinafter referred to as CESS). In addition, SSCs are also in place in those subsidiaries where they are legally required to be established.

Meetings are held on a quarterly basis to discuss health and safety-related issues in their respective spheres of action.

They are made up of the company representation, the trade union representation (risk prevention officers) and the Joint Prevention Service (hereinafter, SPM), which attends as a guest advisor.

It is a forum for information, participation and debate on health and safety, in which proposals are formulated and accidents, absenteeism, risk assessments, emergency management, training, organisation at work, among many other topics are followed up on.

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1. Presentation 2. Organisation 3. Safety 4. Industrial hygiene 5. Ergonomics and Psycho-sociology 6. Health surveillance

2.3 Preventive coordination between companies

The Coordination of Business Activities (hereinafter, CAE, in its initials in Spanish) is a legal obligation, according to which companies that coincide in the same workplace coordinate with one another in order to comply with the current occupational health and safety regulations. All of this is to prevent concurrent activities in the same workplace from producing risk and materialising in a workplace accident. The CAE is implemented through the exchange of documentary information and the effective application of good occupational risk prevention practices.

2.3.1 Exchange of documentation

The platform eGestiona is the online tool through which information exchange is channelled between the GBS and its suppliers operating in the GBS facilities. The CAE is fully integrated into the tendering and procurement process for works and services, and it is a prerequisite for the supplier to pass the CAE approval phase before the contract can be signed.

Subsequently, the supplier must continue to report via eGestiona, in accordance with the following document exchange template:

0. Purchasing Management

Supplier

Contacts CAE

eGestiona Platform

Apsis

Help support

Incidents

Supplier

Post

Information

1. Request

Apsis & supplier Upload of invalid, outdated and obsolete documents

Apsis

Reviews documents and reports erroneous documentation

2. Manage

		Supplier
		Post OK
Company	Worker	information
		3. File
Post	Team	Apsis & BS
		Follow up
4.	Keep	KPIs

2.3.2 Key data

This year, CAE management has been consolidated on the platform, with the collaboration and effort of the departments involved. The most significant data in relation to the suppliers managed at the end of 2022 are:

581			84%	92%
Suppliers	Workers	No. of documents	% Compliance	Suppliers
Registration in		managed		approved
eGestiona

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