building a strong Future, together - OneSteel

SafetyOne of our core values at OneSteel isto be recognised nationally as a leaderin safety. Indeed, our focus on thehealth and safety of all employees,contractors and customers underpinsour Whyalla activities at every level.Safe work practices throughout theyear have delivered the best safetystatistics on record, as we movecontinually closer towards “GoalZero” (zero injuries or incidents).OneSteel Whyalla employee MTIFREmployees actively involved in safetyTo ensure all employees are involved in safetythroughout the Whyalla site, OneSteel hascontinued to push the need for employees toundertake safety behaviour observations.These involve employees getting out on siteand evaluating the safety of a particular job orprocedure. Engagement of all employees in safetyactivities is an important step in increasing theirawareness of hazards in their workplace, whilealso enabling them to assess and manage risks.Every employee is required to undertake at leastone per month and our aim is to achieve 90percent involvement across Whyalla.The 07/08 financial year saw an 87 percentinvolvement for a total of 39,745 observations –a good effort but a percentage we are still keento improve upon. This is up from an 86 percentinvolvement the previous year for a total of20,793 observations. Despite these improvedstatistics, we are still hurting someone everyday on average. This, quite simply, is not goodenough, so an initiative for the coming yearwill be to maintain the number of observationsundertaken while improving their quality. Thisin turn will help to identify, further reduce andeventually eliminate risks.Performance in the 07/08 Financial YearOneSteel firmly believes that all injuries andincidents are preventable and that facilitatingfurther step-change improvements in safetyperformance requires a strategic and targetedapproach. We will not compromise on safety andhave adopted this statement as a core value ofthe business.Safety focus delivers resultsOneSteel’s focus on safety continues to deliverproven results, with Whyalla achieving its bestsafety statistics on record and the best inOneSteel’s history. The end of year MTIFR for07/08 was 3.05 for the entire site. This is wellbelow the target of 4.3 and half the previousyear’s figure of 6.1. Almost every businessthroughout Whyalla had major improvementswith Engineering achieving an MTIFR of 0.0, thebest performance of any OneSteel department.Safety behaviour observations are key to OneSteel’ssafety success and ensure all employees are activelyinvolved in making the site a safer place to work.15