Protecting health

Occupational medicine

It includes the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of occupational diseases; namely those caused by the work assigned to the worker.

Healthcare and medical emergencies

In Italy and around the world, Eni’s business units and companies guarantee the provision of healthcare services, as required by the employment contract, the Management System Guidelines on Human Resources (MSG HR) and international standards. We define specific operational solutions for each country based on an assessment of the context, the structural conditions of the healthcare system and the business stage.

Medical emergencies

In accordance with the national context and the specific labour agreement, we offer a medical emergency response in line with the Eni guidelines and international standards through dedicated operational solutions relating to the response capacity of the host country's healthcare system.

Global health

We promote a health culture both inside and outside the workplace. Global health programmes aim at improving the psycho-physical well-being of our people and the communities surrounding the workplaces where we operate.

We consider global health as a fundamental human right that is linked to an individual’s biological, psychological and social well-being, and we pursue this objective by carrying out promotional initiatives for employees and communities in the countries where we operate.

More specifically, the promotional activities are aimed at:

• staff employed around the world, together with their families
• communities living in areas adjacent to our industrial projects
• populations outside the industrial areas, but that benefit from initiatives undertaken jointly with partner countries.

The diverse composition of the recipients means continuous interaction with:

• the person, their family, the communities they belong to
• multiple contexts (the workplace, home environment, social environment, etc.)
• elements affecting health status (behavioural, socio-economic, environmental and strategic)
• service systems and stakeholders (public and private).

Communication and healthcare promotion

Communicating and promoting healthcare is part of a complementary strategy to its protection in the strictest sense. 

Italia

Promoting healthcare within the company leads to:

• an improvement in the employee's quality of life and subsequently an increase in efficiency and productivity
• a reduction in absenteeism in the short, medium and long term
• stronger staff loyalty and an improvement in the social climate within the company
• an improvement in the corporate image both internally and externally
• greater corporate social responsibility.

Based on this approach, we help employees to acquire healthy and responsible patterns of behaviour. Healthcare promotion programmes therefore focus on preventing risk factors:

•  primary or individual (discouraging smoking and alcohol, encouraging exercise and adequate nutrition, etc.).
•  related to specific diseases (preventing cancer, cardiovascular diseases, common infectious diseases, etc.).

Abroad

To support the health of communities in industrial “areas of influence” we assess the Environmental, Social, and Health Impact Assessment (ESHIA) and Health Impact Assessment (HIA). We adopt mitigation initiatives and monitoring plans based on these analyses.

Community healthcare initiatives may also involve communities that do not live in sensitive industrial project areas (at the request of the partner countries). In these cases, awareness and empowerment initiatives or projects to strengthen and expand the local healthcare system can be planned, with targeted investments in the healthcare infrastructure, healthcare personnel and support for the relevant institutions.