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Results of the

1st Edition of the

FCC Prevention Awards

The Assessment Committee has recog-nized the best experiences in Prevention Management and in Technical R+D+I Inno-vation and a Special Personal Mention for the professional career within the company.

The contest aims to reward initiatives and actions undertaken by departments, teams, business areas, or FCC people who contri-bute to consolidating and disseminating the prevention policy and preventive culture at the work place.

One of the main objectives of FCC is to make prevention one of the Company’s priorities and, to keep awareness alive

among all employees on the importance of this work. In December of last year the Company organized the First Edition of the Risk Prevention award in which all company areas participated and nearly 30 great qua-lity projects were submitted.

The individual Personal Mention for a pro-fessional career went to Jacinto Ruiz Mar-tín, general supervisor of the FCC Cons-trucción Murcia Branch Offce for his work and intensive involvement in the prevention of occupational hazards at the different de-partments where he has worked during his professional career. The company wished to recognize his willingness, involvement, and determination in this issue.

In the Preventive Management Category, the prize went to the Industrial Waste de-partment at the FCC Catalonia-Balearic Is-land offce (Ámbito) for its relevant actions in safety and occupational health, the direct consequence of which was a drop in the accident rate and the integration of preven-tive measures in the different production processes. This has contributed to rein-forcing awareness on safety and health by means of campaigns specifc training and other initiatives which are very demanding in terms of control and investigation of acci-dents at the workplace.

MATINSA, an FCC Construcción company specializing in forest fre prevention and extinguishing won the Technical R+D+I

award. MATINSA submitted the Fénix Project. Its software was developed by the Systems Division of another company in the construction area, FCC Servicios Industria-les y Energéticos (FCC SIE). It is a commu-nication, GPS localization and alarm sys-tem for a fre extinguishing device. This tool enables the individualized management of fre-fghting equipment and is a highly eff-cient alarm and rescue system.

The members of the panel of judges com-prise people from different company de-partments as well as external collaborators (the director of the National Occupational Safety and Health Commission, INSHT, and the managing director of the Institute for Prevention, Health and the Environment of the Mapfre Foundation), and members of trade unions associations (the Secretariat for Occupational Health and Environment