SAFETY POLICY AND PREVENTION OF MAJOR ACCIDENTS

As a manufacturer, distributor and user of industrial explosives, NEF is committed to demonstrating the highest level of expertise with regard to industrial safety and the prevention of major accidents involving the environment surrounding our sites (Vonges site and distribution centres).

Both the management and the staff of NEF take a proactive approach towards industrial safety and accident prevention.

This policy is based on the following objectives:

- a clear management safety policy, backed up by transparency and clear communications,

- a safety management system that fully complies with the regulatory requirements and which is regularly tested to ensure it is both pertinent and efficient,

- replacing more hazardous explosives (such as dynamites), for both workers and the environment, by safer compositions (Emulstar). This commitment is reflected in NEF's research and development programmes,

- efficiently managing, whenever possible, the ground covered by the most hazardous zones surrounding its pyrotechnical installations,

- reducing the risk, at source, by dimensioning installations so that their potential impact on the environment is minimised while at the same time ensuring their perenniality,

- ensuring that all staff are fully aware of the issues and challenges involved in risk prevention,

- analysing any malfunctions, since these may be signs of deviations that must be dealt with immediately in order to avoid any risk of industrial and/or major accidents,

- providing specialised human and material resources.