People’s health is the goal of all our activities

Management system

By way of a continuous review process based on the Deming quality cycle, it ensures the progressive improvement of health-related performance and activities.

Occupational medicine

It includes the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of occupational diseases; namely those caused by the work assigned to the worker. Eni assesses, identifies and monitors risk factors that may affect workers’ well-being, including through scientific research. Furthermore, it uses sensor-equipped devices to continuously monitor the health conditions and comfort levels of indoor working environments at its onshore operational sites in Italy and abroad.

Sanitary assistance

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 culture of health both inside and outside the workplace. Our global health programmes aim to improve the mental and physical wellbeing of our people and of the communities in the places where we work. 

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. 

Italy

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.

Health protection and health promotion

Since 2021, the FEEM Health Committee, a scientific advisory body made up of experts in medicine, epidemiology and health economics, has been carrying out research to help Eni protect and promote the health of everyone operating across its value chain, even in the face of new models, technologies and approaches required for a just energy transition. 

Our main initiatives

In Italy, every year we support healthcare services, from occupational medicine to flu vaccination campaigns and psychological support for victims of harassment and gender-based violence. We have rolled out the Previeni con Eni project for early diagnosis and the Più Salute project for home and digital care to the whole of Italy. In support of communities abroad, we focus on primary healthcare, maternal and child health protection, and the prevention of malaria and sexually transmitted diseases.

The energy transition involves health

The energy transition is fair and inclusive only if it takes people's health into account. In collaboration with the academic and research community, we continued our work to assess the potential impacts and opportunities related to energy transition and new production technologies. This is why we joined “Healthy People, Healthy Business”, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) working group. We focused on understanding how companies can concretely act in favour of global health through four key points:
 

• employee health and well-being
• strengthening the resilience of healthcare systems
• healthy consumer behaviour
• the relationship between health and natural systems.