| Occupational health and safety | - We are implementing a brand new programme to improve occupational safety and reduce accidents;
- we are running the Corporate Healthcare project in our regions of operation to provide a full scope of healthcare services to our employees and their families;
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| Healthy environment | - The Sulphur Programme is ongoing, with Kola Division's SO2 emissions down 90% vs 2015; the programme is also at full swing at Norilsk Division;
- an air quality monitoring system has been launched in Norilsk to create a healthy environment for its residents;
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| Local communities and indigenous minorities | - We completed Russia's first ever process of obtaining free, prior, and informed consent of northern indigenous peoples (Tukhard residents);
- a cooperation agreement for the social and economic development of Norilsk through 2024 and further through 2035 is in action. In 2022, we opened of a new fire station, financed the overhaul of the Integrated Social Service Centre, made social payments for the purchase of housing for Norilsk and Dudinka residents relocating from Russia's Far North, and fulfilled our obligations to finance thermal stabilisation of soils under apartment buildings and social facilities;
- we allocated funding to help indigenous peoples (supporting trades and processing activities, enhancing housing, social and healthcare infrastructure in settlements) in the amount of RUB 412 mln in 2022;
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| Training | - We organised the first comprehensive employee training course in human rights (over 150 trainees);
- we have put in place the Employee Training Strategy for 2022–2025 to build a training ecosystem (for more details, please see Nornickel’s 2022 Sustainability Report, HR Management and Social Partnership section)
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| Responsible supply chain | - The Company introduced a supply chain due diligence management system, among other things, to identify the risk of violating human rights and freedoms;
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| Stakeholder engagement | - Nornickel drafts and implements annual Stakeholder Engagement Plans;
- reports on human rights are classified into a special category of complaints processed by the Corporate Trust Line, with improvements to the grievance mechanism ongoing;
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| Due diligence | - Nornickel built a target model for the human rights due diligence and conducted a preliminary assessment of humans rights impact.
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