introduction | site restoration | maximizing the natural resource | employee involvement in health & safety | sustaining a rural economy | renaturalization of a river area | innovative regional development | operational best practice | conserving natural heritage | working with a fishery association | reducing employee accidents | lowering emissions | developing geo-tourism | health & safety best practice | local community partnership | facilities for local organisations | protection of species - biotopes | decreasing environmental impacts | cooperation with regional authorities
Reducing Employee Accidents
THE ACCIDENT PREVENTION PROJECT
BACKGROUND
The Gralex Group is one of the most important producer of aggregates in Belgium. It operates 21 sites in Belgium and produces about 10 million tonnes of aggregates per year. Currently Gralex employs around 300 people.
ACTION
The priority objective of Gralex is accident prevention. To achieve this objective measures are put into place to enable improvements in this field. The safety organization within the Group Gralex is based on the principle of one safety manager with the highest level of training and responsibilities for the organization, coordination, training and presence in the field when needed, and one safety manager with level 2 training in every production unit and 100% presence in the field.
Gralex analyzed and evaluated all accidents in their company. As a consequence several kinds of training for its employees and prevention measure were implemented. One of these measures was the publication of a safety brochure. The concept was to communicate through cartoons in order to draw attention to safety.
RESULTS
Through all these
measures a reduction was achieved in terms of frequency and severity of
accidents.
introduction | site restoration | maximizing the natural resource | employee involvement in health & safety | sustaining a rural economy | renaturalization of a river area | innovative regional development | operational best practice | conserving natural heritage | working with a fishery association | reducing employee accidents | lowering emissions | developing geo-tourism | health & safety best practice | local community partnership | facilities for local organisations | protection of species - biotopes | decreasing environmental impacts | cooperation with regional authorities
