- Since the first alarm on 21 February 2020, Sogin Group has reacted promptly. While continuing to guarantee the safe maintenance of Italian nuclear plants, we have put the staff functions into smart working, reducing the presence in the workplace.
- During this period, qualified training is being remotely provided to the entire company population, thus promoting professional growth and the transfer of specific know-how in the nuclear field.
- As a state-owned company, we are concretely providing our support, vand providing protective devices for the operators involved on the front line of the health emergency, to whom we have also dedicated a video message of encouragement and support.
- Sogin Group will continue to support Government’s measures aimed at minimizing the spread of the infection, especially in the areas where our decommissioning plants are located.
Following the spread of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) and the measures to contain the infection adopted in the last few weeks by the Italian Prime Minister, Sogin Group has guaranteed, since 21 February, a rapid response to the emergency, conscious that with everyone's commitment we can overcome this difficult moment for our country.
First of all, we didn't stop. We are the state company in charge of the Italian nuclear plants decommissioning outbreak and of the radioactive waste management, Our employees have continued to guarantee health and nuclear safety in our country, ensuring maximum support to the institutions.
This required a stronger management commitment that we have been able to immediately put into action thanks to a solid organizational structure and our professionalism, already trained to respond to possible emergency situations.
We have immediately activated a Crisis Unit, which has set up operating procedures to keep on guaranteeing maximum safety in nuclear sites and access to agile working methods to our employees.
In order to minimize travel and presence at the workplace we have, on an exceptional basis, favored smart working for our employees in the Staff functions at their residence / domicile. At the same time, we have reduced the presence of personnel at the workplace in order to protect everyone's health, while guaranteeing the full continuity of the safe maintenance of Italian nuclear plants.
Moreover, through our Radwaste Management School, remote training sessions are underway for the entire company population, aimed at promoting professional growth and strengthening the health and safety culture in the workplace and the know-how on issues such as radiation protection, decommissioning and waste management.
The procedures adopted on nuclear sites and the use, on an extraordinary basis, of agile working methods, add to the precautionary measures implemented during the last few weeks to reduce risk of contagion. In particular, we immediately canceled all the non-strictly necessary business trips, the participation in conferences, events and training courses and visits by persons external to company premises.
As a state-owned company, we are concretely providing our support to deal with the ongoing epidemic emergency. In the past few days, we have donated different quantities of protective material - over 40,000 surgical masks, 2,200 tyvek suits and stocks of overshoes and gloves - for the social and health workers of the areas in which the Company
operates. In particular, our donations were addressed to the Lombardy Region, through Aria SpA, the
Civil Protection of Emilia-Romagna and Piemonte, to the Local
Health Authorities
of Piacenza and Vercelli,
to the hospitals Santa Maria Goretti of Latina and San Rocco of Sessa
Aurunca (Caserta) and to the Red Cross of Gattinara (Vercelli).
Our concrete commitment continued with an operational collaboration with the Local Health Unit of Piacenza for the sterilization of the premises of Guglielmo da Saliceto hospital. Until 30 June, four Sogin Group teams, each made up of two chemists and health physics technicians, will be involved in environmental sterilization activities, for a total of over 700 operating hours.