EHS Management Experience Sharing

--Continual improvement of SMRT Wuxi PU EHS management

   EHS First is always well implemented in Sandvik operation. Sandvik Mining Rock Tools (SMRT) Wuxi PU sets EHS in the first place among our three main targets. During the 1950 days after the setup of our plant, there is no lost time of injury or total recordable incident. Excellent EHS performance cannot be achieved without the focus and support of our management team and the active involvement of all the employees. Our EHS management will be introduced from the three aspects below, EHS Leadership, EHS Communication and Total-employee EHS Involvement.

1.    EHS Leadership--the power of role model

In 2012, by using the experience of other Sandvik Mining PUs for reference, and integrating with our own practice, the EHS risks of each department, and the responsibility of our management team at different levels, SMRT Wuxi PU worked out our Four-grade EHS Leadership requirement (four-grade for site manager, department manager or supervisor, team supervisor, team leader) and signed EHS commitment letter with all the relevant four-grade leaders. The EHS commitment is included in the performance index of all the leaders. In this way, the site manager, department managers or supervisors, team supervisors, and team leaders understand their clear and definite EHS responsibility, have better self-management in daily work, and set good example in EHS behavior and awareness for their subordinates, thus enhancing the EHS behavior and awareness of all the employees of our PU.

2.    EHS Communication --the power of brainstorm

Besides the EHS leadership of our PU, according to one of our core value, Open Mind, we also consider the suggestions, advice, proposals and feedback of all the employees and respect their requirement and demand. We take the below actions,

1)    Appointing employee representative: Recommended by employees and appointed by our company, three workers and one office staff are selected to be our EHS Employee Representatives. Working as the representatives of all the employees, they supervise EHS work, report EHS issues, involve in EHS targets setting and review, and participate in EHS risk identification and assessment.

2)    Holding tool-box meeting every morning: EHS could be discussed and learned in tool-box meeting. Any EHS related issues could be reported in the meeting.

3)    Making hazard report: Any hazard that found by employees could be filled in EHS report form in the workshop entrance or reported directly to team leaders or managers.

4)    Holding monthly employee communication meeting: The meeting was organized by HR department and the participants are selected from management team, office staff and workers. All of our employees have equal chance to participate in the meeting. Any EHS related issues or concern could be communicated in the meeting.

5)    Implementation Improvement Idea Program: Our company encourages employees to submit improvement ideas to improve the operation of our PU. EHS related suggestions and ideas are also greatly encouraged. All adopted improvement ideas will be evaluated carefully and the related employee will be awarded with prize. Till the end of November 2012, three employees had received certificate and prize after the adoption of their EHS improvement idea.

3.    Total-employee EHS Involvement --the power of employee involvement and self-management

1)    Improvement of EHS inspection: Our monthly EHS inspection used to be carried out by EHS staff. Since October 2012, the EHS inspection is carried out weekly by representatives from each department and the inspection leader is operation related managers or supervisors. By participating actively in EHS inspection, the employee-involvement is improved and the ability to identify hazard and risks is strengthened.

2)    Various EHS activities:

a.    Tree-planting Activity

On May 8^th 2012, we held a tree-planting activity in our plant area. 109 trees were planted on that day. About 40 trees were planted by our own employees and the rest were planted by our contractor.

b.    EHS Comes into Family Activity

On May 20^th 2012, all our employees and our families, more than 100 people totally, participated in the EHS Comes into Family Activity. The activity theme was Safety & Health, Harmony & Development. Family-care was also a very important part of our EHS education in this activity.

c.    Campaign of Wearing Seat Belts

Our PU participated in the Campaign of Wearing Seat Belts organized by Sandvik Greater China. We emphasized the great importance of wearing seat belt whenever we drove or took shuttle bus. We also encouraged our employees to supervise each other to keep the good habit.

     EHS always needs continuous improvement and development. Our Wuxi PU needs to keep learning and self-examination. In our annual EHS management review meeting, we can find what needs to be improved or corrected, and confirm our improvement and development direction in future. Our new EHS management objective is to change our EHS management model from the current goal-oriented model to EHS behavior & awareness-oriented model.

 

Remark:
The words of EHS Management Experience Sharing have been reported in Chinese national level work safety magazine in Feb.2013.