As part of the Ocean Wilsons Holdings Limited Group Wilson, Sons’ management has as a priority to provide and maintain a healthy and safe work environment, to prevent accidents, illnesses or any harm to employee health or the environment. In order to aggregate all actions related to health, safety, and the environment performed by the various Company’s business segments, a corporate administration was created in 2008. This HSE Corporate Administration reports directly to the CEO due to its strategic importance.

The HSE Corporate Administration is formed by a dedicated team of five professionals who work in partnership with 70 other professionals in the different business units dealing directly with operations. In 2009, the environmental policies of different segments were unified in a single document, supported by a group of guidelines aligned with the corporate principles. These policies were intensively disseminated to all employees during the course of the year. The dissemination campaign for the HES Corporate Policy included placards, intranet actions, lectures, and training, which directly involved more than half of all Wilson, Sons` personnel.

Medical and occupational health activities are also being standardised. Services such as pre-hiring and periodical medical testing, as well as assessment of work environment risks will, as of 2010, be performed by a single partner company that covers all the localities where Wilson, Sons is present. This will allow for consolidation of the Group’s data, better knowledge of employee health profile, and case management, as well as decision making on prevention and elimination of critical risks. In November 2009, a project for the promotion of health and well-being of employees was implemented on an experimental basis, for one of Wilson, Sons tugboats. The objective of the pilot project is to research the evolution of health and well-being of the crew on board, with evaluation and advice provided by a multi-functional team that includes a physician, physiotherapist, fitness coach, nutritionist and psychologist. The programme is extended to the families of staff, so that good habits such as healthy eating and physical exercise are maintained when the crew is on land. The Company’s expectation is that, if successful, the project may be expanded to include other vessels. In Tecon Salvador, Bahia, the unit completed implementation of a waste management programme, which had been started in 2008. The programme includes classification, inventory, segregation, allocation, and recycling of solid waste. The next step being considered is expanding this programme to Tecon Rio Grande (Rio Grande do Sul) and to Santo André Dry Port (São Paulo). Amongst other initiatives worthy of note for 2009, are the restructuring of the Internal Commission for Prevention of Accidents (CIPAs) and the consolidation of environmental, as well as health and safety statistics compilation. Such numbers will serve as parameters for HSE actions in the future.