The company has a Risk Prevention Department that oversees the safety of its workers in their work places and their production tasks. Efforts are concentrated on preventive work and training, in order to progressively reduce over time the injury and accident rates.

There has been a reduction of 24.5% in days lost due to work accidents and professional illnesses over the last six years. In the same period, work accidents have fallen by 20.8%.

Training has also been provided in accident prevention matters to temporary vineyard workers over the last four years, before starting with the company’s cellars, with a significant contribution to fewer accidents in the enological area.

In critical tasks, like the operation of fork-lift trucks at the packing plants, a large number of truck operators have been trained in work safety matters.

SAFETY AND HEALTH AT WORK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (GPS/ACHS)

In 2009 an agreement was signed between Concha y Toro, through its agricultural management, and the Chilean Safety Association (ACHS), to introduce a management system that permits reducing work-accident rates in agricultural work. This has begun with three pilot farms and will be extended to all the farms. The objective is to ensure an efficient management in all aspects that concern the prevention of accident risks and professional illnesses in this work.