AlES: for safety, occupational health and well-being of workers

In 2023, AlES JSC set a goal for the implementation of the Vision Zero concept. “Vision Zero” is a qualitatively new approach to organizing prevention, combining three areas – safety, occupational health and well-being of workers at all levels of production.

As part of the “Zero Injury” concept, the Chairman of the Board and directors of production departments of AlES JSC publicly signed personal commitments in the field of Health & Safety, consisting of 7 golden rules.

The Vision Zero occupational safety management system is based on seven rules, understanding and compliance with which should lead to increased industrial safety and a reduction in injuries at all levels of production. AlES JSC has developed a Program for the implementation of the Vision Zero concept for 2023, which includes measures separately for each rule.

“It should be noted that certain measures to achieve the goals of the “Vision Zero” rules were implemented by AlES JSC in 2022 as part of the “Year of Safety,” said Karim Sartaev, head of the Department of Industrial Safety and Labor Protection. – AlES JSC carries out work on the prevention of hazards and risks on a systematic basis. Every year, the Company updates and reviews registers of significant risks in the field of health and safety.

Thanks to the “Safe Production” IS system implemented at AlES JSC, each employee registered in the system without any restrictions has the opportunity to enter identified violations in the event and defect logs in real time for their speedy elimination.

– At the end of 2022, employees of the production departments of AlES JSC recorded 2,972 events and defects in the Safe Production system. All measures to eliminate them have been completed. The most active blue-collar workers who submitted the largest number of reports of events and defects per month were rewarded with cash payments from 2 to 10 MCI. In total, in 2022, 41 blue-collar workers were rewarded for a total amount of 497 thousand tenge.

According to the “Regulations on encouraging employees for reporting hazardous factors, risks, incidents that did not lead to accidents at AlES JSC” approved by the Board of Directors of AlES JSC, based on the results of 2022, managers and specialists for each production department in number of 7 employees for the effective implementation of the safe production model, the largest number of hazardous production factors identified and eliminated.

Professional training and continuous education are the key to safe production. Ensuring the safe transportation of personnel is also an important task of AlES JSC and must be ensured by the presence of highly qualified driving personnel.

To improve the professional training of the Company’s driving staff who carry out delivery/transportation of workers, 11 vehicle drivers received training in the “Safe Driving” course in December 2022. Driver training was organized at the Training Center of AlES JSC and, as a result, all drivers received certificates of successful completion of training.

“This is only a small part of the important work that the team of AlES JSC has to perform for the successful implementation of the Vision Zero concept in 2023,” noted Managing Director for Labor Safety and Environmental Protection G. Autalipov. “I believe that we will successfully cope with it and ensure a high level of safety in Vision Zero production at every workplace in 2023.”