Safety
Ambitious motivational programmes and progress
The positive progress of the last couple of years was unexpectedly and traumatically ended in 2007. When addressing accidents, the human suffering always and overwhelmingly surpasses the charts, numbers and statistics. Although the figures have to be correct too, but it is not good enough for Proviron to meet the industry’s average.
The Proviron management intends to turn the corner and change the safety results for the better. Safety on the work floor – a cliché but very true nonetheless - is also the result of a fundamental safety consciousness during all actions and technical interventions.
That is why we decided in 2007 to develop a number of necessary and ambitious programmes which will come on line in 2008. This should improve the safety situation and motivate employees even more. The programmes are directed towards everyone on the work floor, across all hierarchic levels.
We re-started the hydrogen sulphide (H2S) production. That reduces significantly the number of risks as we avoid transport and storage of this product. Presently, Proviron produces the desired quantities locally in a newly built production unit.
The technical services organisation chart has been re-drawn and its realisation is being worked on. This renewed approach with a healthy vision on safety will have an overall beneficial effect.
Frequence Proviron versus Chemical industry and Belgium
Frequence = number of accidents per million hours exposed
Concrete objectives
“No lost time accidents” is one of the 2008 objectives. This may be ambitious but it became self-evident after analysing the safety results of latter years. The management intends to allow this objective to penetrate intensively all company levels and stresses that these safety objectives are for real. Employee and local community safety is so important in the Proviron philosophy that it has become one of the three 2008 top objectives.
Communication is the key
The best of intentions, plan, analyses and procedures will never achieve the optimum effect without proper goal-oriented communication. Relevant information should be at the disposal of the right employee at the right time. All concerned – and that is a continuous challenge – must use and apply that information which is a question of motivation.
Line management will be given an internal training about safety and safety motivation. To keep abreast of the day-to-day events on the work floor, an electronic report book was introduced. Now it is important to show that the company as a whole reacts quickly and adequately to entries. That aspect too will strengthen the safety motivation of all employees.