ANNUAL REPORT ARCELOR 2003 - paperJam

Safety CharterWhen it was created in 2002, Arcelor adopted a SafetyCharter to be applied throughout the Group. It coversthe following four areas: Health, Safety, IndustrialSafety and Product Safety, i.e. it concerns not only theemployees of the Group but also the service providersat the various plants, the people residing near ourfacilities, the employees of the customers who useArcelor products and the consumers.Arcelor Contractors Safety Award forthe Heckett Multiserv GroupOn September 18, 2003, Guy Dollé presented Geoff Butler,CEO of the Heckett Multiserv Group, one of the mainsuppliers of industrial services to Arcelor, with the first“Arcelor co-contractors’ Health and Safety award”. Thisnew prize will now be awarded every year to recognisethe results of the best Arcelor contractor in that area.In fact, Arcelor has decided to have a single safetypolicy that applies both to Arcelor’s own personnel andto the personnel of subcontractors because the latterrepresent about 25% of the workforce in the plants, butunfortunately make up too great a proportion of seriousor fatal accident victims. This first Arcelor Health andSafety award is an integral part of the Group’s SustainableDevelopment policy, of which safety is one of the priorityvectors, and of the desire of Arcelor’s purchasingdepartment to integrate safety into its purchasing policy,in particular in the form of a “co-contractor safety mark”.Arcelor joins ICSIIn June 2003, Arcelor joined Total, Airbus and EDF infounding the Institute for an Industrial Safety Culture(ICSI). The ICSI works to develop and promote a cultureof industrial safety at all levels to be shared with electedofficials, local communities and associations. Improvingthe safety culture should, in the medium term, make itpossible to expand the dialogue between “plant andcity”, both within the existing advisory bodies and withinthe Local Information and Coordination Committees(CLIC) that will be established around high-risk industrialplants under the French law of July 2003 relating to theprevention of technological and natural risks and todamage repair. To carry out its mission, the ICSI actsprimarily through research into the technical, social andhuman aspects and by educating those involved withindustrial safety and increasing society’s awareness ofthese issues.sustainable development > health & safetyANNUAL REPORT ARCELOR 2003 101