Occupational Health and Safety

Occupational Health and Safety is present in Copel’s Strategic Reference Framework, specifically defined as one of the Company’s values. Based on this premise, it seeks to ensure a healthy work environment in which employees and managers collaborate in a process of continuous improvement in the protection and promotion of safety, health and well-being for all.

In this way, all employees and managers develop, along with their usual activities, a routine of care with safety, to ensure that no service is performed outside the existing procedures in the Company. This is reflected in the continuous improvement of programs and processes related to this theme.

Considering that Copel is composed of wholly-owned subsidiaries and that these have different characteristics of activities, with their own Specialized Service in Safety Engineering and Occupational Medicine (SESMT), in addition to the corporate programs and campaigns, there are actions aimed at the specificities of each company.

Corporately, the Policies, Standards, Procedures and some actions and programs apply to the entire company, such as, for example, the Occupational Health and Safety Guides for contractors, the Risk Hunt Program, and the Quanto Vale a Sua Vida (How Much is Your Life Worth) behavioral campaigns. GRI 403

Occupational Health and Safety Policy

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Occupational Health and Safety Programs

Copel maintains several programs to promote health and safety at work among employees, addressing issues relevant to the preservation of health, quality of life, safety in work activities, as well as related risks, aiming to protect health and ensure well-being.

Actions from Copel Distribuição

As a way to ratify the importance of occupational health and safety at Copel Distribuição, it is important to highlight that in the definition of the Strategic Map, based on the Balanced Scorecard – BSC methodology, the consolidation of the culture of safety, health, and quality of life as a way to be aligned with the company’s values and the expectations of the interested parties is contained in the Aspect of Learning and Growth.

Actions from Copel Geração e Transmissão

Guided by its Occupational Health and Safety policy, Copel Geração e Transmissão (Copel GeT) has as a guideline that everyone is responsible for safety and understands that all accidents can be avoided.

Accident Data

Copel Geração e Transmissão
Year Employee type FR GR Number of deaths
2016 Own                 3.26               21.02 0
2016 Hired                 5.70             231.00 0
2017 Own                 1.90               17.48 0
2017 Hired                 5.25               81.90 0
2018 Own                 2.66               32.26 0
2018 Hired                 4.14         1.868.13 1
2019 Own                 1.24                 9.06 0
2019 Hired                 4.59         1.809.06 1
2020 Own                 0.87                 2.18 0
2020 Hired                 9.25         2.058.63 1
2021 Own                 0.45 0.90 0
2021 Hired                10.99             98.89 0
FR – Frequency Rate GR – Severity Rate

Copel Distribuição
Year Employee type FR GR Number of deaths
2016 Own 5.95 207 0
2016 Hired 3.74 349 0
2017 Own 4.74 133 0
2017 Hired 6.80 204 0
2018 Own 5.75 133 0
2018 Hired 7.83 1.169 1
2019 Own 2.87 114 0
2019 Hired 5.59 197 0
2020 Own 1.66 131 0
2020 Hired 5.06 2.017 4
2021 Own 1.71 74 0
2021 Hired 4.88 935 2
Copel Comercialização
Year Employee type FR GR Number of deaths
2016 Own * * 0
2016 Hired * * 0
2017 Own 0 0 0
2017 Hired 0 0 0
2018 Own 0 0 0
2018 Hired 0 0 0
2019 Own 0 0 0
2019 Hired 0 0 0
2020 Own 0 0 0
2020 Hired 0 0 0
2021 Own 0 0 0
2021 Hired 0 0 0
*Não calculado

Copel Holding
Year Employee type FR GR Number of deaths
2016 Own * * 0
2016 Hired * * 0
2017 Own 0 0 0
2017 Hired 1.41 42 0
2018 Own 0 0 0
2018 Hired 2.60 78 0
2019 Own 0 0 0
2019 Hired 1.33 40 0
2020 Own 0 0 0
2020 Hired 0 0 0
2021 Own 0 0 0
2021 Hired 0 0 0
*Not estimated