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Aygaz Annual Report 2021
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Occupational health and safety practices in 2021 The company takes an active part in the activities of Koç Holding
Occupational Health and Safety Coordination Board and leads projects for continuous development.
Aygaz operates at 12 locations, including the Head Office, the Gebze Plant, and other facilities, all holding ISO
45001 Occupational Health and Safety Management System Certification.
The training programs provided to the employees of Aygaz and subcontractors working at the filling and production
plants to raise awareness on occupational health and safety, fire and emergency, and to build a stronger foundation
for this corporate culture amounted to 14,628 person*hours in 2021. Some of these trainings were supported with
drills.
Furthermore, 165 person*hours of online training was provided to raise awareness about emergency response and
near-miss situations.
On August 17, the online training platform was used to raise earthquake awareness. Additional training was provided
to all the employees to inform them about precautions, how to act during an earthquake and what to do afterwards.
Aygaz also organized an “Illustration Competition” to draw the attention of office and field employees to occupational
health and safety violations in the workplace. The competition, held on an open platform accessible to all employees,
aimed to highlight the potential violations in the work environment and alert them to the risk of becoming inured to
the dangers.
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In addition to ensuring business continuity, protecting the health of the
stakeholders, including the employees, dealers and transporters remained
a priority during the pandemic. Starting from the early days, required
documents were prepared, decisions of the ministry and the governor’s
office were followed, quarantine and isolation measures were
implemented, field inspections were carried out and as a result case
numbers were kept at a minimum. Along with these actions, basic
precautions that can be taken not only at the workplace but also in social
life were communicated to the employees to raise awareness and to share
with their families.
Pandemic related information documents and posters were used to
highlight measures such as hygiene, wearing face masks, social
distancing, and nutrition. Turkish Standards Institute (TSI) inspectors
reviewed the COVID-19 practices and measures at the Gebze Plant,
Yarımca Terminal Directorate, and the company’s affiliate in the water
business, Bal Kaynak Su İnegöl Plant, and inspected the facilities on site.
As a result, the validity of these sites’ COVID-19 Safe Production
Certificates was extended.
As part of the digitalization process, WorkSafe software was integrated
with SAP in 2021, enabling access to the latest employee list and migration
of the basic occupational health and training program and the employees’
period health checks to the system
continued.
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Aygaz Sustainability Report 2020
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Aygaz Sustainability Report 2020
Page 23-24
Occupational health and safety practices Aygaz operates at
12 locations, including the Head Office, the Gebze Plant,
and other facilities, all holding ISO 45001 Occupational
Health and Safety Management System Certification.
The company has also taken active part in the activities of
Koç Holding Occupational Health and Safety Coordination
Board and led projects for continuous development.
The training programs provided to the employees of Aygaz
and subcontractors working at the filling and production
plants to raise awareness on occupational health and safety,
fire and emergency, and to build a stronger foundation for
this corporate culture amounted to 8,258 person*hours in
2020. Some of these trainings were supported with drills.
Furthermore, 25 person*hours of online training was
provided to raise awareness about emergency response and
nearmiss situations. On August 17, a list of precautions was
published for awareness about What to do Before, During,
and After an Earthquake.
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Aygaz Sustainability Report 2020
In addition to ensuring business continuity, protecting the health of the stakeholders, in particular the employees,
dealers, and transporters remained a priority during the pandemic.
Starting from the early days, required documents were prepared, decisions of the ministry and the governor’s
office were followed, quarantine and isolation measures were implemented, field inspections were carried out and
as a result the reported cases were kept at a minimum.
Along with these actions, basic precautions that can be taken not only at the workplace but also in social life were
communicated to the employees to raise awareness and to share with their families. Pandemic-related information
documents and posters were used to highlight measures such as hygiene, wearing face masks, social distancing,
nutrition, safe shopping practices, and what to do on special days like the holidays.
Turkish Standards Institute inspectors reviewed the COVID-19 practices and measures at the Gebze Plant,
Yarımca Terminal Directorate, and the company’s affiliate in the water business, Bal Kaynak Su İnegöl Plant, and
inspected the facilities on site. As a result, these sites were granted COVID-19 Safe Production Certificates.
Furthermore, the Gebze Plant, Aliağa and Ambarlı Terminals, and the Head Office were inspected by TÜV SÜD
for compliance with COVID-19 measures, and these locations were found to be effective.
As part of the digitalization process, Occupational Health and Safety Information Management System (OHSIS)
software WorkSafe was procured and implemented to monitor and report occupational health and safety practices.
Integration of WorkSafe with SAP was completed in 2020 and migration of the Basic OHS training program to the
system started.
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Aygaz Sustainability Report 2020
Page 29 Research and Development
A first in the cylinder gas market: Cylinder Loading Robot
The R&D activities that started in 2019 with the development of a 1⁄4 scale prototype of the Cylinder Loading
Robot continued in 2020 for a large-scale Cylinder Loading Robot. This project aims to automate the cylinder
loading process, which is typically performed manually by workers to load the cylinders on to the transportation
vehicles. A Cylinder Loading Robot, which was launched at the Ambarlı Terminal, marked a very important first for
both Aygaz and the sector, especially in terms of occupational health and safety.
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Aygaz Integrated Management Systems
Policy
Aygaz is committed to implementing sustainability principles in all
its fields of operation, including LPG as its core business in line
with Koç Group Goals and Principles. Accordingly, Aygaz adopts
the Integrated Management Systems Policy, which includes the
following commitments:
•Being a pioneering and innovative company,
•Seizing strategic growth opportunities,
•Ensuring customer awareness and sustainable customer
satisfaction and loyalty as a priority, and offering applicable
solutions for customer complaints with a Customer Complaint
Management Pledge,
•Ensuring effective and efficient management of its business
processes and steadily building upon such processes,
•Engaging in activities to support innovation, digitalization, and
climate change strategies,
•Maintaining high employee loyalty and satisfaction with regular
measurements,
•Complying with high quality and safety standards as a priority,
offering best products and services,
•Working in compliance with applicable legislation and standards,
• Ensuring and improving the satisfaction of all relevant
parties in accordance with corporate governance principles
by seeking the opinions of stakeholders, including
customers, employees, and suppliers,
•Respecting the community and environment in its
operations, creating a healthy and safe working environment
with a zero-accident approach, developing preventive
approaches against potential occupational diseases and
injuries,
• Mitigating potential environmental impact of its products
and operations by conducting lifecycle assessments,
• Steadily improving energy efficiency and performance
across all the offices, buildings and production sites, and
operations,
• Preventing pollution, and reducing and ensuring proper
disposal of waste with a focus on recycling where possible,
• Considering potential environmental impact and
occupational health and safety risks in investment decisions,
• Complying with ethical values, and
• Informing the community about its activities.
All employees of Aygaz A.Ş. are responsible for
implementing, developing, and providing the necessary
resources
for theasprinciples
of the Integrated Management
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Aygaz Occupational Health and Safety Management
Aygaz makes matters related to occupational health and safety a priority due to its sphere of operations. It is
essential that its employees and all stakeholders enjoy a healthy and safe environment in all of its operations. In
order to manage this important area, it has, since its founding, aimed to achieve “zero workplace accidents” when it
comes to occupational health and safety (OHS).
Aygaz conducts its operations at 12 locations, including the General Headquarters, Gebze Operations and
Facilities with the OHSAS 18001 Occupational Health-Safety Management System certificate.
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Aygaz Bulk Technical Service
The specialist Aygaz technical service teams available all over Turkey
serve to ensure our Bulk Gas customers are able to use quality LPG
safely.
Aygaz Technical Services offer the best training on LPG systems and
equipment and is equipped with the required appliances and spare
parts to immediately respond where needed. The service teams start
inspections beginning with the installation step of a bulk gas system
and continue to make periodic inspections to ensure that the LPG
system keeps running smoothly.
Aygaz Technical Services are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
free of charge for your additional test and inspection requests, failure
reporting, and other needs.
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Aygaz Devices
Cylinder-Hood Sets and Hoses
You can use your cylinder gas safely with this
system that combines a hose that complies with
EU standards and the Aygaz high-performance
compact regulator.
Small Cylinder Gas Devices
Aygaz small gas cylinders allow you to
keep heating and cooking in the
mountains, woods, on the lake, camps,
and picnics, or even in a village, town, or
city. Camping lamps and cookers will also
be a life-saver in case of a power failure.
Low Pressure Regulators
Aygaz regulators, original and
metal, comply with EU standards
and allow you to safely use your
cylinder gas with its safe locking
system.
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Aygaz Natural Gas
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