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Norilsk Nickel implements a comprehensive program for monitoring the safety of facilities. The corporate structure of Norilsk Nickel includes a significant number of sports and recreational facilities, ensuring the security of which requires significant investments.

This was told by representatives of Norilsk Nickel at the conference "Safety of sports facilities" held in Moscow.

The topics of the meeting included the exchange of practical experience in ensuring the comprehensive security of objects of mass stay of people with the use of modern equipment, as well as making management decisions that not only ensure safety, but also create comfortable conditions for spectators and other participants of mass events.

For Norilsk Nickel as a socially responsible company, sport, health and safety are integral components of its public policy, Alexey Malinsky, Director of Norilsk Nickel's Investment Project Management and Planning Department, said at the forum.

"The corporate structure of the company includes a significant number of sports and recreational facilities in the Murmansk region, Krasnoyarsk and Krasnodar Territories, whose services can be used not only by the company's employees and their family members, but also by all residents of these regions without exception. These are the sports complexes "Aika" in Norilsk, "Gulfstream" in Monchegorsk, the FunPark "Bobrovy Log" in Krasnoyarsk, hockey arenas in the Murmansk region and many more," Malinsky said.

"It should also be noted we support high-achievement sports: the CSKA basketball club - a new sports arena is being built in Moscow for it, the Norilsk Nickel mini-football club, the newly created Norilsk hockey club".

The company's sports facilities, as well as its production facilities, require significant investments to ensure security and anti-terrorist protection.

According to the director of the Norilsk Nickel department, the company is implementing a comprehensive facility security program totaling more than 28 billion rubles, which provides for equipping the company's assets with modern engineering and technical security systems.

"We have launched a program of digital transformation of corporate protection processes, which will allow us to flexibly and quickly adapt to new challenges in the future. Its important element is a three-level system of situational and analytical security centers, which allows to significantly automate the management of facility security, increase the speed of incident response and develop comprehensive solutions to mitigate risks," Malinsky said.

Alex Shishlo for Rough&Polished