Personnel
The actual number of TGC-1's employees as at 31 December 2012 was 7,098 people. Company's payroll decreased by 110 people or 1.5 %. The change in the payroll resulted from measures aiming to raise the shareholder value of TGC-1, by removing a car company from the framework of TGC-1 and centralizing the storage facilities of CHPPs, decommissioning equipment at the Pravoberezhnaya CHPP, and reorganizing the fuel and transport department and equipment decommissioning at the Pervomayskaya CHPP.
Of the Company's staff 18.8 % of employees are under 30, 44.6 % are aged between 30 and 50, and 36.6 % are over 50. The average employee's age is 43.
TGC-1 supports and encourages the employees' aspiration for professional development and considers training and education of the personnel as a guarantee of the achievement of the stated business goals. In 2012, 5,404 employees were trained which equals 77 % of the Company's payroll, including 3,057 employees who passed skills improvement courses, evaluations training and professional training in the TGC-1 Training Center.
A key priority of TGC-1's personnel policy is attracting young professionals and keeping them with the Company. Every year, the TGC-1 Training Center offers internships for students of relevant colleges and universities at enterprises and structural departments of the Company. Company Days, roundtable discussions, lectures, and moderation sessions are held with engagement of the Company's leading professionals. Diploma paper contests are held every year to increase interest among promising students.
A priority of the social programme is arrangement of summer vacations for employees and their families. Care about the employees' physical health is another key priority. This goal is achieved through mandatory and voluntary health insurance provided to employees.
Sponsorship and Charitable Assistance
Involvement of TGC-1 in charity events:
- Funding of surgery of varying degrees of complications was funded for children aged 1 to 12;
- 10 AMRW 18P-EL wheelchairs for disabled orphans with infantile cerebral palsy were purchased within the framework of the Special Children charity programme;
- charity aid was provided for arrangement and implementation of the Continents Cup in wheelchair dancing and participation in the International Wheelchair Basketball Tournament in Lithuania;
- 19 sets of Illustration Perception Atlases for young blind children and partially sighted children were published at the Company's cost;
- a trip to a spiritual music festival in Israel was organized for children from the Day Rehabilitation Center for Neglected Children;
- three computer classrooms in Children's Home No. 167 of Saint Petersburg were equipped with the aid of the Government of Saint Petersburg and TGC-1;
- Power Hour, a collective project of TGC-1 and the Umnikum Recreation Center, was started for school, lyceum, and gymnasium students, and children from orphanages and boarding schools of Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast;
- the Company contributed to the funding of the publication of the Russian Power Sector in Posters album, an annual project of the CONTACT-CULTURE publishing house. For WWII Victory Day, TGC-1 donated Wartime Leningrad Poster albums to the Russian National Library, published at the Company's cost and initiative.
In 2012, a total of 33 charity organizations received aid within the framework of TGC-1's budget.
Environmental Protection
In 2012, various measures for environmental protection were applied in the structural divisions of TGC-1.
In 2012, TGC-1's pollutant emissions increased by 525 tons (1.3 %) compared to 2011, which was mainly due to the power production increase.
Compared to previous years, the amount of disposed water reduced by 11.9 million m³ (8 %) due to the operation of new 180 MW CCGT units no. 1 and 2 with a recycling process water supply system and phasing out of some obsolete and outdated machinery at the Pervomayskaya CHPP of the Nevsky Branch.
In 2012, the Administration and Structural Departments of the Kolsky Branch passed certification audit for compliance with the environmental management system (SEM) of the ISO 14001:2004 standard. The Nevsky Branch successfully passed its audit inspection.
Results of internal SEM audits followed by corrective action in structural departments of the Company show that the structural departments of the Nevsky and Kolsky Branches are maintaining an effective environmental management system and developing it according to the principle of constant improvement. SEM is generally effective and complies with the requirements of ISO 14001:2004.
An expansion of the SEM certification area is scheduled for the Karelsky Branch in 2013.
