Behind the numbers: how ContourGlobal is delivering safety across complex energy projects
Houston and London, April 28th, 2026
• More than five million working hours managed globally in 2025, reflecting a safety model focused on execution discipline, data‑driven oversight and visible leadership across operations and construction activities.
• “Buddy Up for Safety” campaign rolled out worldwide, reinforcing early risk identification and peer accountability across employees and contractors, and aligned with the World Day for Safety and Health at Work.
• Major projects delivered in 2025 with strong safety performance, supported by disciplined O&M and construction activities, effective coordination and robust preparedness.
In a power sector defined by the rapid build-out of renewables and battery storage, increasingly complex operations and advanced hybrid assets, safety requires constant focus. For independent power producers (IPPs) like ContourGlobal, that focus includes designing intrinsically safe work environments, managing large-scale construction in often remote areas with multiple contractors, and operating thermal and renewable plants across geographies.
As IPPs increasingly move from greenfield development into hybridization, repowering and storage integration, the operational challenges continue to grow. For ContourGlobal, this is particularly relevant in a context of an accelerating renewables portfolio expansion and clean energy pipeline, with 6.2 GW of installed capacity in operation or under construction across multiple technologies and geographies.
Against this backdrop, ContourGlobal reported outstanding occupational health and safety performance in 2025, managing more than five million working hours, including over 3 million hours performed by contractors and subcontractors, while advancing construction activities that delivered more than 1.2 GW of new installed capacity spanning solar PV, hybrid and battery energy storage (BESS) projects.
This focus on safety is embedded in the company’s newly released HSEQ Policy and is guiding a review of its Global HSEQ Integrated Management System, both aligned with ISO standards and with the company’s purpose The Right Power Forward, integrating quality requirements and key sustainability commitments. This approach positions health and safety as a measurable indicator of operational quality, rather than a standalone objective. This approach considers health and safety as a measurable indicator of operational quality, rather than a standalone objective.
These updates come as ContourGlobal concludes its global “Buddy Up for Safety” awareness campaign, a month-long initiative culminating in an all-hands meeting on the World Day for Safety and Health at Work. An initiative aimed at strengthening safety commitment and reinforcing early hazard identification and mutual care across its workforce and contractor base.
“Safety is not just about rules on paper, it is about how we look after one another, every single day,” said Antonio Cammisecra, President and Chief Executive Officer of ContourGlobal. “Buddy Up for Safety is a reminder that everyone — employees, contractors and partners — has both the responsibility and the authority to speak up, stop unsafe work and protect others. That mutual care, supported by data and active leadership approach, is essential to protecting life – our most precious value – at all times, ensuring we operate and deliver our construction projects on time, on budget, and in full compliance with the highest safety standards”.
Over the course of the campaign, safety initiatives like site-level awareness activities, toolbox talks and leadership safety moments were rolled out across operating assets, major construction sites, and offices worldwide, involving more than 1,200 employees in 18 countries and a broad international contractor base. A global webinar held on April 28th marked the culmination of the campaign.
At ContourGlobal, safety does not end with this month. The company is committed to continuously improving its safety culture, and, as part of this approach, it offers all its employees a dedicated learning path focused on safety, available in the company’s internal Learning Academy and leveraging external resources such as LinkedIn Learning.
Safety in action across complex energy projects
The past year tested this approach across a range of high-intensity activities. In 2025 ContourGlobal built a 500 MWh BESS facility in Bulgaria, marking a key milestone in the company’s transition of the Maritsa East 3 site, totally delivered without recordable injuries. In parallel, safety discipline was equally evident in other parts of the European portfolio such as Spain, during major planned maintenance, as well as in Austria, with the installation of wind measuring technology, all completed with Zero Accidents.
In the United States, large-scale renewable construction and thermal O&M programmes required extensive contractor coordination and complex site safety oversight. In Chile, construction and commissioning of large-scale solar PV and storage assets implied enhanced controls around energized systems and contractor interfaces, validated through full-scale emergency drills to reinforce electrical risk preparedness.
Equally central to the company’s model is how it responds when incidents occur. Severe events trigger immediate stop work decisions, followed by root cause analysis and system level changes — an approach designed to prioritize workforce protection and organizational learning over short-term continuity, particularly in environments characterized by accelerated buildout and parallel construction streams.