The Zero Accidents Awards, now in their third year, go to the CLH service provider with the best occupational health and safety performance.

The CLH Group has given FCC Industrial, a member of FCC Construcción’s subsidiary group, the Zero Accidents Award, an annual distinction that acknowledges the best occupational health and safety performance at firms that have rendered services at CLH’s facilities.

CLH Chairman José Luis López de Silanes bestowed the award on the general manager of FCC Construcción, Miguel Jurado, in a ceremony held today at the company’s corporate headquarters in Madrid.

The jury is made up of members of the Safety, Environment and Occupational Risk Prevention subdivision of CLH. To make their choice, they weighed firms’ 2012 construction safety records.

The Zero Accidents Awards, now in their third year, are designed to engage service providers in CLH’s values and accident prevention and safety policy, as part of the company’s social responsibility policy.

In order to be eligible for the award, firms have to win the CLH Group’s seal of approval and sign onto the ‘Zero is Possible’ Safety Commitment, a document in which signatories undertake to foster their employees’ physical, mental and social wellbeing through correct protection from and prevention of their work’s inherent risks.

In 2012 the CLH Group invested over 79 million euros in different projects to expand and improve its infrastructure, with the help of 389 outside firms that altogether provided more than 1,100,000 hours of work, with six accidents requiring leave and 199 workdays lost. That made for a total frequency index of 5.45 and a severity index of 0.18.

Madrid, 21 June 2013