MERLIN Properties Annual Report 2021

MERLIN Properties | 81 Providing a safe and healthy working environment and promoting employee wellbeing are key aspects of MERLIN’s management philosophy. To that end, the Company is careful to comply with all occupational health and safety regulations, aided in this endeavor by an external prevention service. In 2021, MERLIN unified the Occupational Risk Prevention (ORP) provider for the entire Group to align criteria and ensure the consistency of the measures to be applied. All employees had received specific health and safety training, which has been completed by 90% of the professionals. The 2021 fiscal year continued to be affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Company has followed the recommendations of public health authorities at all times, has continued with its office disinfection protocols and has offered regular diagnostic testing to all employees free of charge, as well as greater flexibility in starting and ending times in the office and teleworking upon request. MERLIN offers employees other benefits for their physical and mental health and well-being, such as providing fruit in the workplace and the option of taking out private health insurance for the entire family as part of a flexible compensation package. Access to physical therapy services at the corporate office was added as a new benefit in 2021. The Company communicates with employees regularly on healthy lifestyles, promoting physical activity, a balanced diet and digital disconnection, among other things. EMPLOYEE SAFETY, HEALTH AND WELL-BEING (4) The Lost Workday Rate (LWR) is calculated by comparing the total number of lost workdays with the total number of scheduled working hours for 2021. A lost workday is defined as a day on which a worker is unable to perform his or her usual tasks due to an occupational disease or an accident. Rate of occupational diseases is expressed as the frequency of occupational diseases in relation to the total time worked by all employees in 2021. The Absenteeism Rate (AR) is expressed as the ratio of days workers are absent due to incapacity of any kind, not only as a result of an occupational accident or illness, to scheduled working days in 2021. Accident rates in 2021 were as follows: Rate (4) Men Women Lost Workday Rate (LWR) 0.026 0.0001 Rate of occupational diseases 0 0 Absenteeism Rate (AR) 0.021 0.017 Number of deaths due to occupational accidents or diseases 0 0