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OUR PEOPLE Demonstrating fire safety in Europe Plastic Packaging The safety team at our site in Le Tréport, France, are regularly joined by local fire fighters for fire simulation exercises. In one exercise a smoking generator was placed in a corner and a volunteer operator played the part of a victim overcome by fumes. The alarm was then raised by the automatic fire detection system. The emergency team members, alerted by radio message, immediately came from the different workshops after putting on their safety gear. The victim was quickly found and brought to safety whilst the fire fighters dealt with the simulated fire. In only a few minutes the emergency procedure had been put into action with employees calmly assembling at the appropriate place. After a debriefing and a factory visit by the fire fighters to acquaint them with the surroundings and the risk areas, the factory returned to normal. responsibility case study Final tests and a simulation of the Business Continuity Planning phase also took place by contacting all key personnel at home to estimate their availability and approximate arrival time on site. Glass* The requirements to extinguish a severe fire or property damage incident in a glass site are very complex. The technical installations (such as the furnace and its hundreds of tonnes of hot glass, electricity, noise, heat, hard to access areas, equipment at heights or adjacent production machines) provide the potential to put Rexam employees and emergency staff at risk. As part of our fire safety and property protection programme, and to protect human health and safety as well as to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of an emergency operation, we carried out a number of practice scenarios at our glass plants in collaboration with local fire fighters and emergency service crews. The practice sessions were designed to improve the emergency services on- site knowledge and familiarity with plant and process hazards, as well as providing training for Rexam employees. Each individual session was planned jointly with the emergency services teams to be as real as possible. After completion, each session was then reviewed with the fire safety professionals for the purposes of identifying *Rexam’s Glass business was sold to Ardagh Glass Group PLC in June 2007 new learning and knowledge sharing amongst other fire fighters and emergency crews dealing with factory conditions of this nature, some even to a national level. We see the health and safety of our employees, and any other persons who may be on our premises, as of utmost importance. By completing the above exercises and continuing to build on our close working relationship with local emergency crews we are further ensuring the maximum possible safety of our people. HEALTH & SAFETY
OUR PEOPLE Best practice examples in North America Rexam is deeply committed to safety. In 2002, Rexam BCNA began participating in an annual global health and safety program conducted by Aon Risk Services. Following the initial audit, an action plan was created by our Health and Safety teams (working with individual sites), to address the audit recommendations for improving overall health and safety. Rexam set a target for all their locations to achieve a score of 80% or better on the audit and Rexam’s Director for BCNA H&S Geoff Wortley says the work is paying off. “All of our locations achieved at least an 80% score on the audit,” adding, “In fact, all of our locations are now eligible to receive the Rexam Risk Management Award for Health & Safety that will be announced a little later this year.” Several sites have even achieved double digit improvements since 2004 and four facilities reached the 90 plus percent level. “The performance of all of our sites is commendable”, said Harry Barto, BCNA’s president and CEO. “Improving our scores from 50% to more than 80% in just three or four years takes a tremendous amount of dedication and teamwork. But this is really just the beginning. I am also counting on our people and plants to deliver on our goal of reducing safety incidents every year until we responsibility case study Once again the team delivered, and was granted, ISO 14001 certification in Tianjin. Shanghai went one step further and decided to fully integrate their systems and were awarded both 14001 and 18001. Shenzhen will complete certification to ISO 14001 over the last few months of 2006. HEALTH & SAFETY Health & Safety achieve zero. We have the best people in this industry. And we want our people safe and secure.” China In mainland China, prior to our acquisition of the FangXin facility, Rexam had three manufacturing facilities - Tianjin, Shanghai and Shenzhen. All three large and very complex and each carrying out a range of manufacturing techniques. The Sector set a clear two-part strategy for these sites at the start of 2005; the first was that they should achieve the Rexam internal Best Practice award for health and safety. The last audits were 75, 63 and 70 respectively. Through hard work, teamwork and consistent leadership the plants were audited in early 2006 with terrific results; 84, 87 and 86. Following this achievement, another first was attained in the Asia region – the Sector held the very first Asia Risk Management Conference in Shenzhen. Each of the plants’ EHS teams came together for a day to talk about the new programmes to be worked on, exchange best practice and of course to celebrate their achievements. The second strategic goal was that they would develop their systems of risk management along the lines of the international standards 14001 and OHSAS 18001. All of these achievements are testament to the continuing emphasis throughout Rexam that a high-risk management standard helps to deliver high class business performance.
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