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Worldwide - 2006
Taking Fatality Prevention Wider, Deeper
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Not willing to rest on its strong history of fatality prevention success, Alcoa's Engineered Products and Solutions (EPS) group took its efforts wider and deeper in 2006 to further eliminate risks that could lead to a fatality.
A recent rise in fatalities in other Alcoa businesses was a key driver in the EPS group's increased activity and focus on fatality prevention at its more than 100 plants around the world. A team comprised of a cross section of key line leaders and environment, health, and safety directors from the group's six business units reviewed Alcoa's overall fatality data and contributing factors to develop a common fatality prevention program across the group.
Key elements of the program include the following:- Procedures—Each plant must ensure safe operating procedures are in place and followed for every operation.
- Fatality Prevention Teams—Every location has formed a fatality prevention team comprised of salaried and hourly employees to review the location for work practices, hazards, or behaviors that could be considered high fatality risks.
- Training Slides—Common training slides for employees will help increase awareness of fatality risks and preventive measures. A second set of common slides are used to educate members of the fatality prevention teams.
- Alcoa Self Assessment Tool (ASAT)—EPS created Alcoa's first fatality prevention ASAT to evaluate a location's efforts in this area. Items reviewed include percentage of employees trained on fatality prevention annually and use of a risk assessment tool.
- Video—EPS prepared a video that focuses on knowing safe operating procedures, taking personal accountability to stop and ask if a procedure is not understood, and making sure the equipment is safe. The three other business groups within Alcoa will also customize the video for their own use.
EPS has also implemented a process to ensure the program requirements are being deployed and to track the number of unacceptable risks and the additional countermeasures put in place immediately to offset them.
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