Health and safety at Saipem are uncompromising values that form the foundation for a culture of operational excellence. Saipem’s integrated health and safety management system helps identify emerging threats and implement effective measures to maximise safety for people, assets and operations. Our ambition is clear: to eliminate fatalities and life-altering injuries from our operations, moving from traditional metrics to a culture in which safety is not the absence of incidents, but the presence of effective safeguards. To achieve this, we are focusing on three pillars: Human Performance, Asset Integrity and New Technologies, ensuring that every initiative consistently contributes to strengthening our safeguards and preventing high-consequence events. Beyond safety, we promote the health and wellbeing of our people with programmes for both physical and mental wellbeing. We call this approach “One Health” where physical and mental health are integrated into all operations, going beyond occupational medicine to focus on prevention, telemedicine, and tailored solutions for our people.
At Saipem safety is not just a priority, it is a core value. We want to eliminate fatalities and life-altering injuries consistently, year after year. It’s a responsibility we all share for ourselves, for our people and for our families.
Making strides in Health and Safety
Seeing progress
A look at where we are at with our objectives on Health and Safety.
SAFETY TARGETS AND PERFORMANCE
| OBJECTIVES 2025-2028 | TARGET YEAR | 2025 RESULTS | PROGRESS |
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Improve H&S performance: Potential High Consequence Frequency Rate (PHCFR) |
2025 |
PHCFR = 0.11 |
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Reinforce H&S awareness and competence: Implementation of a new HSE training initiative based on Human Performance |
2027 |
Fail Safe Workshop: 38 events, 19 worksites with 1,184 participants; HP Training for Leaders: 76 events, 27 worksites, 940 participants. 3 HSE events involving clients in Qatar, Saudi Arabia and China. |
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For Saipem, health protection is not just about providing services, it’s also about caring for people.
HEALTH TARGETS AND PERFORMANCE
| OBJECTIVES 2025-2028 | TARGET YEAR | 2025 RESULTS | PROGRESS |
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Health prevention: application of a new Cardio Vascular Disease Prevention Programme (CVDPP) |
2025 |
Programme application: 71% of sites covered, 69% of people screened (more than 14,000), 81% of people enrolled in follow-up (almost 6,000). |
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Mental health: 2. start up telepsychology service overseas |
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Embedding H&S into operations
Our key challenges include developing and sustaining chronic unease across all levels of the organisation. Defined as the constant, healthy sense of discomfort, it drives individuals and leaders to remain alert to weak signals, changing conditions, and the potential for things to go wrong, even in the absence of incidents. This requires recognising and actively managing dangerous mental states such as rushing, frustration, fatigue and complacency, all of which can erode critical thinking and decision-making. At the same time, workplaces can become vulnerable when safeguards are weakened by complexity, operational and time pressures. Strengthening chronic unease means increasing awareness of these vulnerabilities and ensuring that people, processes and equipment remain resilient to prevent high-consequence events. For more information about our we involve our people in our Health and Safety culture, read more here.
Leadership in Health and Safety programme (LiHS)
Leadership in Health and Safety is a cultural change programme internally developed by Saipem in 2007 and has since become our philosophy. It strengthens safety leadership and drives a deep, lasting transformation in the safety culture through an emotional, values-based approach. Over the years, LiHS has been successfully adopted by more than 100 organisations across a range of industrial contexts and is recognised internationally as a model of excellence.
Fostering a culture of human performance principles
Since a considerable number of incidents are linked to at-risk behaviours closely associated with Human Performance (HP), Saipem introduced a dedicated programme built on five core principles: people make mistakes, blame fixes nothing, context drives behaviour, learning is vital and the way leaders respond matters. The programme drives a cultural and behavioural change engaging all levels of the organisation.
Prevention promotion
Saipem has several programmes that offer our people the opportunity to maintain their health and wellbeing, including check-ups that identify health issues in the early or sub-clinical phase of oncological and cardiovascular conditions; psychological support services; and nutritional education. The Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Programme (CVDPP), one of Saipem’s most advanced and structured initiatives, implemented for more than 10 years, screened more than 14,000 employees in 2025.
Smart Clinics
At our Smart Clinics, which are now available in three locations in Italy, services were expanded to include ongoing health surveillance and preventive care through occupational medicine, travel health consultations and vaccinations, psychological and social support with psychologists and social workers, practical caregiver training, and assistance with self-care procedures. In 2025, more than 1,000 medical consultations were carried out.
AI technologies for Safety
AI technologies help us process safety data, detect risks and suggest preventive actions, empowering people to make better decisions. The Karimun yard in Indonesia is a testing ground for these solutions for its unique operational complexity, innovation-driven management and client support. Here, we develop drones that monitor drop objects at offshore platforms and industrial sites, the Life Saving Harness system, which detects improper anchoring and risks for workers at height to help prevent fall, and the Video Analytics for Workplace Safety, a system with AI-powered cameras to detect HSE violations.
Workability
The Workability project ensures accessibility and employability for people with disabilities, encouraging participation by mitigating employment barriers and inequality, and fostering a culture that values its people. The programme tailors services to the individual’s needs, moving beyond simply meeting regulatory requirements and creating meaningful and sustainable practices for inclusion and an improved quality of life for all employees.
LHS Foundation
Founded in 2010, the LHS Foundation is a non‑profit organisation that promotes health, safety, and wellbeing within Saipem and across the wider industry and society. The Foundation generates value through educational, training, and awareness initiatives, supporting the development of a shared safety culture and encouraging safe behaviours among employees, clients, and subcontractors, as well as external audiences.
Our culture of Health and Safety
