Safety measures help improve the working conditions for the employer and the worker. This enhances the physical efficiency of employees and protects their lives. Many incidents can arise from poor safety arrangements, as well as negligence, carefree approach, inadequate skills and improper supervision.
Great Leader Heydar Aliyev said, “Preventing an event is easier than eliminating its consequences”. We, at Baku Steel Company, follow this motto. The Company management understands all the above, and has established a number of departments to prevent such incidents:
- Training Centre
- Health, Safety and Environment (HSE)
- Pyrotechnics
The Company's Training Centre provides training on and promoting HSE regulations and standards. The Training Centre is crucial to raising employees' knowledge about occupational safety, preventing industrial accidents, and minimising the number of injuries.
The HSE department oversees the compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, guidelines, production, sanitation and hygiene requirements for occupational safety and security in all divisions and production premises. It also ensures compliance with applicable fire safety laws, instructions, rules and regulations, and is involved in the development and implementation of look-ahead and annual plans for fire and explosion prevention, improvement of working conditions and occupational safety and employee health.
Metal wastes and equipment from all over Azerbaijan are supplied to the Company for its production process. Sometimes these wastes may include ammunition, unexploded ordnance and other dangerous equipment. The ingress of such dangerous items into the steel furnace can cause great disasters. To prevent such occurrences, the Pyrotechnics Department has been established.
The Department staff ensures the rejection and explosion safety of explosive and potentially hazardous ammunition, objects and substances during the receipt and processing of metal wastes. Immediate safety actions are taken whenever explosion-hazardous items are detected. The workers nearby are removed to a safe distance, the danger zone is fenced; the potentially hazardous items are accompanied to a temporary storage without endangering the people in the surroundings. Explosive ordnance disposal and prevention of environmental harm is ensured in collaboration with the National Agency for Mine Action (ANAMA) and the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
The Company's health and safety, fire protection and environmental protection activities are governed by the Labour Code and other legislative acts, state regulations and standards. Control is exercised over establishing the working conditions in compliance with sanitary and hygiene regulations; the employees are provided with customised clothing, footwear and personal protective equipment, free milk and dairy products, therapeutic and prophylactic meals, and are subject to compulsory medical examination once a year.
Human factor, protection of human life is one of the main priorities of our Company. To facilitate the working conditions and ensure the safety of the people we at Baku Steel Company carry out activities to automate and upgrade all processes every year. Our director plays an indispensable role in these activities. We at Baku Steel Company wish to develop not only our Company, but our entire Azerbaijan, and we will pursue that aim through choosing a correct policy.