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Sustainability and corporate social responsibility
HSE and traffic safety in Mantena
In Mantena, safety comes first. By safety, Mantena mainly means preventing unwanted incidents resulting from work carried out on railway vehicles and from changes/moves in our own business, or avoiding injury to people and damage to equipment in the course of work on our own premises.
Our safety policy forms the basis for our HSE work. Safety in Mantena falls into two categories:
• Traffic safety
• Working environment and personal safety
The traffic safety work is mainly directed at shunting (moving trains) and safety-critical tasks on vehicles and components. Separate routines and follow-up procedures have been established. All events and incidents are recorded and followed up in our improvement and incident management system.
From 2020, traffic safety work will also include the process for driving trains, as well as reporting to SJ as a railway operator. In 2019, Mantena was awarded a licence and safety certificate to drive trains without passengers or freight on the national rail network (Safety Certificate Part A and Part B, to drive empty passenger and freight trains on the Norwegian rail network). This is one way to support our customers over an increasing part of the overall value chain. The work to put this in place has already started.
Serious incidents were recorded in 2019 which, under other circumstances, could have had serious consequences. The cases have been followed up and dealt with according to the relevant procedures. The cause of these events lay in the replacement and maintenance of components.
Mantena follows up on injuries through local working environment committees (LAMU) at the individual workshops and in the central working environment committee (HAMU) for the company. Mantena has zero tolerance for injuries to staff and damage to material assets. There is a particular focus on preventive measures to avoid personal injury. All injuries are closely monitored and measures are taken to prevent further accidents.
Systematic safe job analyses and risk analyses are carried out, which form the basis for the preventive work. 38 injuries were reported in 2019, compared to 40 the year before. Of course this is too many, and there is still a strong focus on preventive measures and follow-up of all incidents that occur.
HSE and personal safety are described in Mantena’s management system. Systematic safety inspections are carried out in all restricted areas. An extended safety inspection is carried out once a year, with the plant owner and the occupational health service taking part. Issues from safety inspections are followed up in the LAMU. An action plan is drawn up after the inspection, and all issues are recorded and dealt with in Mantena’s improvement and incident management system.
The H1 factor was measured at 11 (12 in 2018).
Sickness absence was 7% in 2019 (7% in 2018). This is predominantly long-term absence.
HSE work is a explicit key area for 2020.
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