Employees Around the Globe Put Health and Safety Theory Into Practice
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May 2014 Vol. 6, No. 2 No. 6, Vol. May 2014 ArcelorMittal Dofasco 1 Company 1 Community1 Company 1 Magazine 02 Employees around the globe put Health and Safety theory into practice 02 05 06 09 ArcelorMittal steel Meet Taylor Steel Hauling in the hardware Three cheers for in record-breaking our partner in preparing for Automotive sector Team Orange mega structures for steel markets our company community spirit of the future came out on top in full force 2 Global News 1 | ArcelorMittal Dofasco | May 2014 Health and Safety Day 2014 – putting the theory into practice The eighth ArcelorMittal Health and Safety (H&S) Day took place on April 28, involving hundreds of thousands of employees and contractors. of all our employees and raise Our U.S. facilities in to mark the progress we have Tuhina Chugh awareness in the company that Columbus (Ohio) and Weirton made in terms of LTIFR. At [email protected] we need to be careful.” (West Virginia) introduced AHS ArcelorMittal Dofasco, in 2013 Gonzalo Urquijo, who is the with a game: employees and the company’s lowest ever annual GMB member responsible for contractors practiced their skills LTIR was achieved – 0.44. Health and Safety Day 2014 Health and Safety, set out a by recognizing and identifying Colleagues at our cold rolling and served as an occasion to be roadmap in the annual Health and staged slips, trips and falls hazards steel making plants at reminded how important safety is, Safety Day video: “this year we and winning small prizes for Vanderbijlpark Works, South to recommit and to learn about have a target of 0.75 and we have spotting the most. Africa, led the celebrations with how we can improve our safety at set an objective for 2017 of 0.5. To address the occupational both having recently achieved 10 work. There was much to That isn’t easy; we have to work health topics – hearing million LTI free man-hours. In the celebrate, with steady progress in very hard, why? Because as you conservation, lung and breathing UK, the Scunthorpe Distribution our lost time injury frequency rate become better in order to make protection, fatigue and sleep Solutions site recently completed (LTIFR) which reached a new low progress it becomes harder and disorders and smoking in certain almost five and a half years with of 0.8 in 2013. There has also harder, and the effort has to be workplaces – our site in no lost time injury thanks largely been a decrease in the number of much bigger.” Newcastle, South Africa, to implementing behaviour-based fatalities from 30 in 2012 to 23 in organized a “wellness village”, initiatives. This achievement 2013. The key message, however, Specific focus areas helping workers quit dependence provided encouragement to remained the same: zero is the Mandatory for all sites, the on tobacco and other substances. Etxebarri in Spain, where a new only acceptable number. And three occupational safety topics programme called “Avisame” there is still considerable work to for this year’s Health and Safety “Stop, think and act safely do on the company’s “Journey to Day were falling from heights, – I practice” (Spanish for “warn me”) based on Zero”; many sites and mines held a slips, trips and falls, and pinch Corporate Health and Safety promoting behavioural change has minute of silence for the four points. also took the opportunity to been rolled out. colleagues who have lost their While spotting hazards is launch a new campaign on the day There was also much to lives this year, as well as for those already an integral part of shop with the motto ‘I practice’. To celebrate in our Mining segment, co-workers we lost in previous floor audits and layered focus initially on the two most which has completed 100 days years. evaluations, during Health and common causes of fatalities – injury free, meaning 17,000 Mr. Mittal reiterated his Safety Day colleagues were urged crushing and falling from heights colleagues working in iron ore message from the first quarter to focus specifically on the – the campaign aims to have mines have returned home safely financial results announcement in hazards relating to falling from employees to commit and take a at the end of their working day. To February and Investor Day in heights; slips, trips and falls; and pledge to act safely and watch add to this, the Serra Azul mine in March, saying: “I am not satisfied pinch points . Area Hazard out for each other. Information Brazil recently completed five with the severity and the fatality Spotting (AHS), as it is called, was packages and communication years with zero LTIs. rates. If accidents are of a the methodology launched on the material is being distributed While Health and Safety Day repetitive nature, it means we day, providing a way to across all ArcelorMittal sites. is over for another year we should really need to work a lot on our systematically spot hazards all remember Mr. Mittal’s closing behaviour, on the culture, on the relating to the day’s three specific Special celebrations remarks from the day’s video: Hearing protection is one of the focus topics for Health and Safety Day engagement and the participation safety topics. The day was also an occasion “don’t only say it, implement it.” 2014 > ArcelorMittal steel in record-breaking mega bridges Starting with the ‘New NY bridge’ project, we look at how our steel is helping to replace a mega-structure over the Hudson River in the U.S. state of New York. In Norway, we look at the incredible ‘sky bridge’ and its growing army of fans, while in Mexico we celebrate the use of ArcelorMittal steel in a bridge that’s helped to make journeys through the Sierra Madre mountains safer. ArcelorMittal employees involved In Mexico, our Lázaro world that is making travel River - the third longest bridge in In continental Europe, last Stefan Stojadinovic with this project is well over 1,000 Cárdenas site supplied 130,000 through the treacherous Mexican the world. Distribution Solutions’ year our Differdange plant in [email protected] – probably closer to 2,000 tons of steel for the corrugated mountain range, the Sierra Madre, business division international has Luxembourg delivered jumbo employees. With a project this rods in the structure of the safer. In Venezuela, 6,000 tons of been coordinating the supply, beams more than 60m in length size, involvement starts right from Baluarte Bicentennial Bridge - the our rebar is being used to build the working in close collaboration with for a new Deutsche Bahn rail ‘Bridge to last a lifetime’ the beginning.’’ highest cable-stayed bridge in the 11km bridge over the Orinoco our mill in Las Truchas, Mexico. bridge in Dresden, Germany. Our U.S. plate mills in Burns Harbor, Coatesville and Supplying record-breaking Conshohocken are supplying bridges around the world 160,000 tons of high More than 200,000 tons of performance steel that will be ArcelorMittal steel helped build used in the unique, US$3.9bn some remarkable new bridges “New NY Bridge” project. over the last two years. Impressive The 3.1-mile twin span contributions have been made to cable-stayed bridge is the single the world of mega-bridges: largest bridge construction project Mexico, Venezuela, France, in New York’s history, and the Distribution Solutions, largest transportation design-build Luxembourg – the list of project to date in the United ArcelorMittal teams and sites States. The project involves involved is almost as long as some upgrading the Tappan Zee Bridge of the bridges our company spanning the Hudson River provided steel for. between Rockland and New on the list of the world’s Westchester Counties in New record-breaking bridges is the York. Hardanger bridge - or the Plate mills are supplying their “Norway Sky Bridge” as it’s been HPS70W high performance steel nicknamed. Our WireSolutions site to two of the projects’ major steel in Bourg-en-Bresse, France, fabricators, High Industries and supplied special cable steel Hirschfield Industries Bridge, for hangers with cast steel sockets to bridge and girder fabrication. A link to the main cables holding up significant amount of Burns Harbor this metal marvel. material was also supplied to Berg Southeast Asia’s longest for the bridge pilings earlier in bridge, the recently opened 2013. 24-km long Sultan Abdul Halim “We are very pleased to have Muadzam Shah Bridge, comprises been selected to provide our high a total of 11,105 tons of our steel performance plate material for this pipes delivered by OSP – Oriental major, historic infrastructure Sheet Piling, part of Distribution project,” said John Battisti, chief Solutions - along with coating, operating officer, ArcelorMittal inner rings, driving shoes and USA Plate. ‘’The number of lifting lugs. A water-view rendering of how the Tappan Zee Bridge will look when complete. 1 | ArcelorMittal Dofasco | May 2014 Local News 3 Reinvesting in our people and assets Continuous improvement is often associated with capturing value in an organization. Identifying and eliminating loss and waste is one side of the continuous improvement coin, while the other is investment and renewal. In 2014 ArcelorMittal Dofasco will commission two new state-of-the-art lines that will keep our finishing operations at world class standards and enable our company to continue to provide a diverse range of superior quality steels that are lighter, stronger and more sustainable. The No.6 Galvanize line is a $120M investment that positions ArcelorMittal Dofasco to supply the growing demand for advanced high strength steels (AHSS) in the Automotive market segment. The line is in the heart of the construction phase and is scheduled to begin commissioning in August.