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Incident Investigation:

Operational awareness, quick action and ownership are critical to avoiding incidents during this
time. We have global and business continuity plans and specifically epidemic and pandemic
response plans. Many of them originated in the previous SARS and COVID scenarios but they are
currently being updated with measures that are progressively more drastic. In the performance
review, our company got the widespread impression that the incident frequency rate has been
reduced during the pandemic. We still do not have enough consolidated information from April
which was the peak of the epidemic. We have a general environment of precaution that affects not
only the care against contagion but also care with everything we do. We have noted as well the
reduction in the man‐hours worked in activities that tend to have higher incident rates. So in terms
of process safety, we are keeping asset integrity as key to prevent from future process safety
incidents. We continue with incident investigation which focus on human factors. We are giving
training, swapping to virtual training in many cases. To summarize, we have to keep priorities on
keeping production safe, meeting commitments, safety‐critical communication culture, work
culture, competence and avoiding complacency.

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