At Solidcore, we believe that all work-related injuries and illnesses are preventable. Our top priority is ensuring the safe return after each working day of every person who works for and with Solidcore. Key to our health and safety strategy is effective leadership, fostering a zero-harm culture and rigorous risk management practices. We continually promote excellent safety behaviours to ensure all our people and contractors work in a safe environment. We invest heavily in safety training, and strive to meet the most stringent international health and safety standards.
By embedding best practices in everything we do, we will continue to improve our safety performance.
Each year, we identify and assess risks across the Group, create risk maps for all our working processes and locations, and then develop detailed programmes to reduce these risks. We carry out an annual qualitative hazardous risk assessment, and inform employees of the results through a range of communication channels. We adapted Critical Risks Management (CRM) system, which includes a health and safety action plan for all critical risks. For each risk, operation sites implement mitigation activities covering administration, risk elimination, engineering improvements, training and visualisation.
We follow a shift-by-shift risk assessment model to raise employee awareness of workplace dangers, manage risks promptly, and control the accuracy of our risk assessments. We apply this system most rigorously in hazardous operational areas, for example auto-tablet transport, mines, plant and power supply, laboratories, and we are gradually introducing it in other areas of production.
Thanks to the high level of professionalism of Solidcore’s employees, our facilities in Kazakhstan have maintained a zero LTIFR since 2022. However, some near-misses still did occur, emphasising the need for ongoing efforts to ensure safety. Therefore, we continue to dedicate significant resources and implement additional measures to do all we can to safeguard our employees from future injury.
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We go beyond what’s required by regulations to achieve the goals of zero fatalities and injuries. We have taken voluntary steps to implement best practices that encourage a culture of safety.
Training and engaging employees and contractors is essential to achieving our zero-harm goal. We provide training in occupational health, and industrial, electric and fire safety. Our employees and contractors attend refresher safety courses and some of those involved in dangerous works undergo mandatory safety training. To support the “zero harm” mindset, we hold contests and reward teams that achieve zero incident rate. Our safety awareness campaign includes professional competitions, a quarterly Occupational Health and Safety quiz for staff, articles in the corporate newspaper (including personal stories), employee incentives for active participation in the shift-by-shift risk assessment system, objective refusal to perform work, reporting of incidents without consequences, videos, and printed materials.
When selecting a contractor, we check their track record and refuse working with those which have low safety performance or high risks. We also require their safety management system to be comparable to that of Solidcore’s and make safety compliance a part of any contract.
In line with our commitment to Occupational Health and Safety, we want to ensure preparedness for all types of emergencies that may pose threat to the safety of people and the environment. We conduct emergency drills and test our response plans across all our hazardous facilities at least annually and at least monthly at the facilities with higher emergency risks.
All Solidcore’s emergency response plans are fully compliant with the applicable regulations. With the support of local authorities, Solidcore has created an action plan to practice emergency prevention at each of our hazardous facilities. We provide training for our in-house first responders and engage contractors for accident prevention and potential rescue work.
Solidcore’s emergency preparedness effort is underpinned by:
To identify emergency risks and their potential harm to the environment, we:
Develop emergency response procedures;