With successful attendance of 98%, Depósito Central de Valores (DCV) held the First Safety Meeting for its collaborators in order to even knowledge in relevant issues such as safety, risk, securities, ethics and their effective application to management, as established in the company’s Communication and Training plan.

During the meeting – which took place between April 30 and May 14 at Neruda Hotel – DCV General Manager, Fernando Yáñez, welcomed the attendees and contextualized regarding the objectives and importance of the meeting which have allowed setting 2015 as the Safety Year in DCV.  

Valenzuela, Human Resources Management Director, explained the reasons that have motivated this designation and the four training days. “Every day news reports invade us with cases that face situations bordering legality and ethics, undermining the trust of clients, shareholders, controlling entities and employees of the entities affected. This has led us to think: do our collaborators really know and understand their responsibility in the face of the preventing ethical and operating risks? This is why we wanted to set the year 2015 as the Safety Year, which led to these training days for DCV collaborators as well as working on reinforcing our policies, procedures, roles, functions and everything necessary in this regard”.

Therefore, the meeting objectives are clear:

Having suitable policies and accurate plans to face potential risks and thus avoid significant impacts that may affect the organization and its clients are among DCV pillars.

To Sandra Valenzuela, “an entity, whichever it may be, may accept or assume the risks inherent to the nature of their business; it can prevent, transfer or mitigate them. The decision depends on the importance that the company bestows upon building trust, credibility, social responsibility, sustainability and the care it wishes to provide to its workplace”.

She added “our decision is to establish policies, procedures, contingency plans and, possibly most importantly, work in an ethical culture that allows us to prevent future risks in DCV”.

 Therefore, she asserts that these types of training events are relevant for collaborators since through these instances “we expect all participants to become aware of the importance of protecting their workplace in the broadest sense of the word and that they are willing to abide by and promote DCV risk and security policies. For example, identifying possible threats, preventing risk situations and warning about a possible incident”.

Innovations for collaborators relate to two aspects:

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