Alba raises contractor safety awareness

Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba)'s commitment to increased safety awareness across the entire plant and to steer the organisation towards a zero accident work environment continues to gain greater momentum as the company's executive management held a safety meeting with some of its main contractors on Tuesday, May 7, 2013.

Alba's Chief Executive, Tim Murray and Chief Operations Officer, Isa Al Ansari met with the contractors to highlight the positive steps the company is undertaking to ensure all-round safety, and how these steps resulted in the company achieving 4 million work hours without loss, time, injury (LTI) in the month of April.

During the meeting, it was decided that monthly meetings will be held between the contractors and the hygiene, safety and environment team along with quarterly meetings with the executives, if necessary.

Commenting on the safety meeting with the main contractors, Alba's Chief Executive, Tim Murray said:

"Contractors share the same work space with our employees, and it's vital that they, too, be included in our current campaign to develop a zero accident work environment. Safety, after all, is a collaborative effort and its success hinges upon the cooperation of everyone who's working at the plant. We consider contractors to be part of our team, and hence, we are keen on getting them equally passionate - like the rest of our employees - with the steps that the company is taking in strengthening the safety culture across the organisation."

At the meeting, the importance of the three Zero Accidents Principles was also highlighted in bringing about culture shift within the company. The principles state that the ownership of safety is everyone's responsibility; working safely is a condition of employment; and all work related injuries and illnesses are preventable.