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Health & Wellness Policy
 
Veritas Caspian recognizes that health and wellness at the workplace are the collective responsibility of governments, communities, employers, employees and individuals.

In order to support this policy Veritas Caspian is committed to:

Compliance:

- Maintain, as minimum, compliance with applicable legislation, regulatory requirements, and industry standards for the promotion of health and wellness at the workplace.

Relationship with other parties:
 
- Develop and maintain open and constructive relationships with international health organizations, occupational health agencies, customers, local government agencies, local communities, and health service providers in the countries where we work.
 
Risk Management:
 
- Conduct health risk assessments in order to identify and assess health risks in our areas of operations and reduce this risk to a level as low as is reasonably practicable;
 - Support and encourage employees to participate in activities which promote health and wellness;
- Promote health assessments whenever the local community, contracted workers, and their families are potentially impacted by a project;
- Proactively respond to local, country and global health issues in a timely fashion;
 - Develop adequate response capability and plans.
 
Fitness to work:
 
- Conduct fitness assessments to verify that our employees are fit to work in their operations environment.

 Wellness Practices:
 
- Provide for our personnel, healthy and hygienic offices and resting quarters where applicable;
- Promote wellness best practices in the context of our business activities;
- Maintain and enforce the Viridien substance abuse policy including non-smoking (tobacco and e-cigarette);
- Support public and health campaigns.

Education:

- Train, inform and mobilize Veritas Caspian employees and contractors to ensure that their activities are conducted in a healthy manner;
- Develop employees awareness of health and wellness issues and their individual responsibilities with respect to this policy.

Management Review:

- Strive to continually improve health performance through periodic reviews;
- Monitor health performance indicators to follow up and continuously improve;
- Report publically on our health performance.

Line management has responsibility for achieving specific objectives which support this policy.