Safety Week: one culture, one priority

Organised each year across the VINCI Group entities, Safety Week brings together employees, managers, operational teams and partners around a shared objective: strengthening a shared culture of prevention across all activities. The initiative also reflects VINCI’s “Safety First” mindset, encouraging every employee to remain vigilant, speak up in potentially unsafe situations and make safety part of everyday decision-making.

For VINCI Highways, safety is embedded in the day-to-day operation of highways, urban roads, bridges and mobility services. From traffic supervision and infrastructure maintenance to incident response and mobility management, our 4,500 employees work every day to help ensure smooth and reliable journeys for millions of users across 3,750 km network . Shared across all functions, locations and levels of responsibility, this culture of vigilance plays a central role in protecting employees, partners and the users of VINCI Highways infrastructure alike.

For a major international road concession company such as VINCI Highways, the challenge is to deploy VINCI’s zero-accident practices across very different countries, cultures and operating environments, while fully integrating local contexts. In this respect, VINCI Safety Week plays a key role in strengthening a shared corporate culture and reflecting the Group’s DNA, supporting our ability to roll out common safety standards worldwide.

Throughout the week, our teams engaged in emergency response simulations, roadside intervention demonstrations and immersive workshops reproducing real-life maintenance and incident management scenarios. Practical activities and collective discussions also focused on hazard identification, workplace wellbeing, field coordination and the everyday challenges associated with operating on live traffic across our network. Particular attention was given to reinforcing everyday safety reflexes, encouraging employees to look out for one another, ensure that procedures are consistently applied in the field and help prevent incidents.

More than an annual initiative, Safety Week reflects VINCI Highways’ long-term commitment to embedding safety into every aspect of its operations, with people remaining at the heart of safer and more sustainable mobility. With 75% of entities having achieved zero lost-time incidents in 2025, VINCI Highways continues to move forward toward its ambition of zero accidents. These figures are encouraging and reflect the continuous progress made by teams across the network. But when it comes to safety, there is no room for complacency: safety is above all about humility. The priority is to maintain this level of performance over time and to extend it with the same level of rigor and vigilance to the concessions recently integrated into VINCI Highways. 

Safety is never “mission accomplished”: it requires the constant attention and commitment of everyone involved. In 2026 and beyond, I call on all our teams to continue our efforts to move ever closer to the VINCI Group’s objective of zero accidents . 

Belen Marcos
President of VINCI Highways