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Health and Safety
At Alcoa, the health and safety of our people is our number one priority. We have one of the lowest lost workday injury rates in the country - our performance is better than the mining, construction, agriculture, forestry and fishing, and even retail trade industries.
Our key safety goal is to have zero fatalities, lost work day (LWD) injuries or recordable injuries. Alcoa’s LWD rate reduced in 2007, with all locations except two having recorded more than 100 days since their last LWD. Alcoa Anglesea had an impressive 1800 days without a LWD, while WA Farmlands has run even longer at over 2000 days since the last lost work day injury.
We aim for zero injuries through:
- Visible safety leadership by managers and supervisors
- Continual development of a safety culture built around an acceptance that everyone is accountable for safety
- A strong focus on behavioural safety
- Standardisation of routine work to specify the safest methods for each task
- Pre-task risk assessments for non-routine work
- Robust investigation procedures to understand causes and contributing factors for every incident and ensure corrective actions are implemented
We also implement several initiatives to achieve the goal where employees go home healthier than when they came to work. Healthy workforce initiatives include medical screenings, health-risk reduction programs, health education and employee assistance. Read more.
Safety Culture Change
A wide-ranging program was implemented at our Wagerup Refinery in late 2006, which aimed to strengthen the safety culture at all levels of the business.
The Safety Culture Change program was designed to eliminate injuries and incidents by developing a strong safety culture with an emphasis on individual accountability for safety.
The program has seen a significant reduction in injuries and has been rolled out across several other Alcoa sites in Australia.
The key elements of the program are:
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- Active engagement and empowerment of work crews to address their own safety issues
- Strong safety leadership and increased management interaction with safety management
- Clearly defined safety expectations for employees at all levels
- Daily visual management systems to maximise visibility and awareness of safety issues and maintain the commitment to improvement
- Identification of best practice approaches that are already being used which can be deployed throughout different parts of the site
We are confident that what we’re doing in relation to people management and health & safety is successful, because 60 per cent of our employees have worked with us for more than 10 years.
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