Labour Safety and Protection Awareness Month: Working to achieve zero traumatism!
The Labor Safety and Protection Awareness Month, timed to the World Labor Protection Day, is held in April 2025 at all enterprises of Samruk-Energy JSC Group to reinforce preventive measures to reduce occupational injuries, prevent occupational diseases and create safe working conditions.
“Safety of labor conditions is not just rules, it is our responsibility before employees and their families”, – notes Rasul Onalbaev, Director of the Department of Labor Protection and Environmental Protection of AlES JSC. During the Labor Safety and Protection Awareness Month, commission audits of workplaces are being held in all production departments for further improvement of labor safety.
Within the framework of the Year of Occupational Health and Safety, new control tools are being implemented in the Group of Companies of Samruk-Energy JSC: a centralized observation unit was commissioned to monitor compliance with occupational health and safety requirements and to control the condition of unsafe technical devices and equipment operation.
As part of the “Year of Occupational Safety and Health”, new control tools are being introduced in the group of companies of Samruk-Energo JSC: a centralized monitoring Point has been opened for compliance with occupational health and safety requirements, monitoring the condition of hazardous technical devices and the operation of equipment.
“After the introduction of the centralized observation unit, we now have a more powerful tool to prevent dangerous situations,” said Murat Olzhabaev, Deputy Chief Engineer of CHPP-3.
The system allows real-time monitoring of compliance with safety standards, including the use of PPE, identification of potentially hazardous areas and monitoring of workers’ condition. The operator has the technical capability to continuously monitor signs of equipment malfunctions (heavy fumes, smoke, fire, etc.) for subsequent notification of the responsible operational and administrative personnel of the production departments for timely response to prevent dangerous technological situations.
Practicing is the best way of education. Employees of production departments undergo emergency response training, first aid master classes, and also take part in the contests “Best Production Department in the Field of Occupational Health and Safety”, “Best Employee in Understanding the Occupational Safety Risk Management System and Risk Assessment Skills” and “Best Innovative Idea, Proposal in the Field of Occupational Safety”. The best way to teach safety is to show it through live examples.
There is a great deal of attention paid to interaction with contractor organizations.
Conducting joint inspections of workplaces, conducting briefings and training contractors’ personnel in occupational safety culture have become an integral part of the zero injury strategy. Safety is a shared priority and everyone works as a team.
Our technical alertness is the basis for prevention. “Proper equipment and quality PPE are our main defense,” said Kanat Cheryazdanov, senior foreman of the electrical machine shop at Kapshagai HPP named after Sh.Chokin.
As part of the Month, comprehensive inspections of equipment condition, availability and serviceability of personal and collective protective equipment when working on electrical equipment, firefighting equipment and tools are being conducted.
Informational boards of enterprises are updated with relevant materials, and the best practices will be presented at competitions.
“Seeing the management care about our safety keeps us motivated,” confesses Nurkabyl Mazhikenov, an equipment maintenance mechanic at the receiving and offloading center.
Karim Sartaev, Head of the Occupational Health and Safety Department at AlES, sums up: “Safe work means not just a month’s work, but daily practice”.