Health and Safety

To spread a culture and awareness of safety and to identify best practices to adopt according to the unique features of each site, dialogue and participation are fundamental tools. In this perspective, we launched the Perceptions Alignment initiative, which provides for a monthly meeting on Health and Safety topics. In these meetings, the key functions of the shipyard (Director, HR Business Partner, and HSE Manager) align their perceptions on environment, collaboration, performance, and action plans.

Another opportunity for dialogue is Safety on the Job, which includes Safety and Environment Meetings and Safety Breaks. These sessions, involving some supervisors from the companies present in the shipyards, include site inspections in the workplaces. They allow for the identification and reporting of both anomalies and best practices and delve into specific topics, identifying causes and defining targeted corrective measures.

To ensure continuous oversight of health and safety performance, we have adopted a comprehensive monitoring and sharing system. The First in Class Shipyard initiative allows us to share safety indicators for each site’s performance on a monthly basis. This approach not only highlights the first-in-class site but also creates healthy competition among Group plants.

Supporting this system, we organize monthly Team Building & Sharing meetings involving the HSE teams of Fincantieri S.p.A. and the main Italian subsidiaries, facilitating experience sharing. Monthly Reporting enables structured analysis of key indicators and trends, conducted both by company and at Group level, thanks to the support of the Impact platform.

For timely management of critical events, a Crisis Reporting system is in place through a dedicated chat, facilitating immediate communication of near misses and significant events.

To complete the system, an experimental accident analysis project was launched at the Sestri plant, aiming to identify recurring factors contributing to accidents and define corrective actions. The initiative may be extended to other production sites in the future.

Improving safety culture at work also means raising awareness of potential risks at the sites. Therefore, Safety Walk Arounds are carried out at all Italian plants—inspections conducted in activity-homogeneous areas—which enable on-the-job training in risk perception and the exercise of the supervisor’s role.

The training is conducted by the first levels of operational areas, with the support of the Prevention and Protection Services, and involves both internal supervisors and those from contracting companies. Types of risk, anomalies to report, and best practices for safe behavior are illustrated, with particular attention to near misses, unsafe conditions, hazardous behaviors, and positive feedback.

We developed a project to promote healthy lifestyles, involving all employees of Fincantieri S.p.A. and Italian subsidiaries, focusing in particular on:

• proper nutrition
• conscious consumption of alcoholic beverages
• medical prevention.

For each topic, we prepared an informational flyer, sent by email after the project launch. The communication and all three flyers were published on the company intranet and displayed on screens in the canteens. Paper copies were distributed to everyone through the most appropriate channels at each production site, handing them out at strategic locations such as company infirmaries.

The entire project was first shared with Workers’ Representatives and implemented in collaboration with the company Chief Medical Officer.

We promote a culture of continuous safety improvement among our business partners as well. In particular, the Partner in Safety initiative, aimed at contractors operating at our sites, seeks to foster fruitful collaboration between suppliers and Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) departments in order to identify and implement corrective actions on health and safety matters.

This initiative, an evolution of the previous Stream Pressing Ditte program, involves a series of meetings with selected suppliers identified by the Group’s Italian sites. The activity began with seven suppliers and includes the sharing of best practices and improvement actions in HSE areas.

In the first half of 2025, 22 on-site suppliers (working within shipyard areas) and 9 in-house suppliers (at their own facilities) were involved. In some cases, suppliers were asked to prepare an Improvement Plan, outlining the initiatives needed to comply with the required HSE performance standards. The adoption of the Improvement Plan saw collaboration between suppliers and local HSE teams, followed by a review after the first implementation phase to analyze results and identify any further improvement actions.

The initiative will continue in the second half of 2025, progressively involving more contractors.

Learn more about our initiatives towards the supply chain.

Also in 2024, Fincantieri Marinette Marine, in line with previous years, received the following awards from the Shipbuilders Council of America (SCA):

• Excellence in Safety Award: awarded to companies that have not recorded any fatal accidents during the year, that regularly submit quarterly occupational safety reports, and that have an annual average Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR) below the average calculated by SCA.
• Improvement in Safety Award: reserved for companies that have reduced their annual TRIR by 10% or more compared to the previous year, as shown by complete quarterly reports sent to the SCA.
• Significance in Safety Award: presented to shipyards that during the year have not recorded any fatalities and have maintained a TRIR below 1.0.

We have launched, through the Fincantieri Foundation, a strategic partnership with Sapienza University of Rome to promote applied research and advanced training in materials engineering and occupational medicine, with a specific focus on worker health and safety.

Through this agreement, we aim to develop technological solutions that meet the highest standards required by next-generation shipbuilding. The Fincantieri Foundation will play a central role in coordinating activities. In this way, we strengthen the connection between academia and industry, contributing to the spread of an approach in which safety is increasingly a shared and strategic value.