Phosphea addresses the risks associated with
sedentary jobs and working with display screens
Preventing and combatting the health issues associated
with sedentary jobs and working with display screens
is an often-underestimated challenge for off ice-based
staff. In recognition of this, the senior leadership team
at Phosphea in France has already provided 34% of
its employees with training specif ic to these issues
coordinated by the Ille-et-Vilaine Occupational Health and
Accident Risk Prevention Department. To support best
practices in workstation design and layout and suggest
organisational and hardware improvements, this training
was delivered on company premises. These awareness-
raising initiatives will subsequently be incorporated into the
company’s HSE (Health, Safety & Environment) induction
programme and rolled out to new recruits by the Phosphea
HSE Coordinator.
A landmark achievement in safety
at Magnesium do Brasil
In 2024, Magnesium do Brasil carried out nearly 200
safety tours, inspections and audits at its industrial site.
These exercises are the result of a collective effort
involving every employee, partner and supplier, with
particular emphasis on scrupulous completion of work
permits and immediate reporting of potentially
hazardous situations. Our Brazilian subsidiary also
underlines the crucial importance of uncompromising
compliance with the ‘golden rules’ essential for ensuring
the safety of everyone in the workplace. This result
reasserts the determination of Magnesium do Brasil to
continue pushing the boundaries in terms of operational
safety and maintaining an exemplary working environment
for all its people.
Safety efforts rewarded in the Packaging
division
More than 800 days with no lost time accident at
Drulingen, and more than 500 at Dinard: in 2024, both
Agriplas sites achieved unprecedented levels of safety
performance thanks to increased involvement at every
level, from management to operations teams. Monthly
meetings of the accident risk prevention committee,
15-minute safety brief ings, shopf loor safety tours, and
more. New routines have been introduced to facilitate
discussion about real-life situations, encourage reporting
of all incidents and share corrective actions implemented.
“Training provides another way of motivating our people.
It’s not always easy to free up operators to attend
classroom training, so we’ve expanded our range of
eLearning opportunities to include modules on specif ic
handling tools, grinders, electrical hazards and noise”,
explains Aurélie Bohuon, QHSE Manager at the Dinard site.
At the same time, the outcomes of analyses have resulted
in changes to workstations, including the installation of
additional operator protection on machines and ensuring
that products leaving the production facility are loaded
safely. Personal protective equipment has also been
revised to provide better protection against real-life
shopf loor risks.
“Until 2023, head impacts were fairly common in our
production workshop”, explains Solène Walser, QHSE
Manager at the Drulingen site. “But since then, it’s been
compulsory to wear a hard hat. Everyone’s perfectly
happy to wear one, with the result that we haven’t had a
single accident since; not even a minor one.”
So looking beyond the progress measured by indicators, it
seems that a genuine safety culture is now f irmly in place!
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