Bluescope Steel CSE Report 2005 - Best Practice Case Studies

YOU ARE HERE: CSE Report 2005 > Health & Safety > Best Practice Case Studies

Best Practice Case Studies

Chinese Operations Achieve Record Performance
12 Years without a Serious Injury at Mackay
Butler Buildings USA Works Toward Zero Harm
Safety Performance Highlights

Chinese Operations Achieve Record Performance

BlueScope Buildings' businesses in China have continued to achieve outstanding safety performances in recent months.

BlueScope Buildings Shanghai achieved six years LTI free in June 2005.

BlueScope Buildings Guangzhou has maintained its LTI free record since the commencement of operations in 1995 and celebrated ten years LTI free in November 2005.

Our two businesses in Langfang and Chengdu have also remained LTI free since their commissioning in March 2003, with Chengdu achieving two years LTI and MTI free in September 2004.

Significant and safe progress continued to be made in the construction of our new coating and painting facility in Suzhou, 80 kilometres west of Shanghai during 2005.

The construction site achieved two million hours LTI free in August. The team also achieved eight consecutive months of 100 per cent employee involvement in audits. In total, there are more than 1100 people (employees and contractors) engaged in this project.

BlueScope Lysaght China's safety achievements were celebrated at a Family Safety Day held at the Shanghai Forest Park. Family members joined employees to participate in a day's events that highlighted the importance of health and safety.

The health and safety activities were designed to help create awareness of safety issues at work and home and how everyone can help to make the workplace and home a safer place.

12 Years without a Serious Injury at Mackay

The Lysaght Mackay Service Centre in Queensland celebrated the exceptional achievement of 12 years LTI free in June 2005.

The Centre achieved this result while having two roll formers installed and four new employees joining the team.

According to Mackay Centre Manager, Steve Allen the Centre's commitment to safety has not wavered through all the changes at the site. The employees at Mackay have been dedicated to safety and to making Zero Harm happen every day.

Steve said that Leading Hand, Peter Ballingall was instrumental in the achievement of a high safety standard. The leadership and support provided by Manager North Queensland, Phil Small, also contributed to the Mackay Service Centre's success.

Butler Buildings USA Works Toward Zero Harm

The commitment of Butler Buildings Southeast Region to Zero Harm was shown with the achievement of 1 million hours LTI free in April 2005 and one year LTI free in June 2005.

Regional General Manager, Harry Yeatman said every employee's commitment to safety was demonstrated daily and credited the 100 per cent participation of all staff in the audit process as the major factor in reaching the one year milestone.

Another key to the Southeast Region's success was a monthly Safety Slogan contest. Each month, three winning slogans were chosen on a specific safety topic. At the end of the financial year, three slogans were chosen to represent the best submissions for the year.

Divisional Safety Manager Butler Buildings North America, Kristie Reynolds and Safety Coordinator Southeast Region, Cecil Cunningham awarded prizes to the monthly and annual contest winners at a dinner to celebrate their journey towards Zero Harm.

A banner was presented to celebrate the accomplishment of one year LTI free and all employees received a T-shirt with the winning safety slogan for the year on the back - 'Lock me out, Tag me out, I don't want to be carried out'.

Safety Performance Highlights

Many BlueScope Steel sites around the world have celebrated safety milestones and achievements, reflecting employees' commitment to the goal of Zero Harm and determination to prevent workplace injuries.

Some of our international achievements include:

Asia

BlueScope Steel Asia achieved one year LTI free in April 2005 and at that point in time had worked 16 million hours without a lost time injury.
BlueScope Steel Thailand's Map Ta Phut plant achieved 15 million hours LTI free in May 2005. At this site, there has not been an employee LTI, nor a contractor LTI since October 1996
BlueScope Lysaght Thailand's Rangsit operations achieved five years LTI free in November 2004.
The BlueScope Thailand Coating Expansion Project achieved 2 million hours LTI free in July 2005 and was LTI Free for the entire project.
BlueScope Steel Vietnam achieved 5 million hours LTI free in April 2005.
The Coating Line construction project at Phu My in Vietnam has achieved 3 million hours LTI free and to date remains LTI free for the entire project
BlueScope Steel Indonesia achieved 4 million hours LTI free in May 2005.

North America, New Zealand & UK

Our North American operations achieved 1.6 million hours LTI free in March 2005, completing two consecutive months without an LTI.
Butler Buildings achieved 1 million hours LTI free in April 2005.
Vistawall achieved 1 million hours LTI free in May 2005.
Our Vistawall Terrell facilities achieved 1 million hours LTI free in August 2005, for only the second time in the plant's history.
New Zealand Steel's Cogeneration plant achieved eight years LTI free in February 2005.
New Zealand Steel's Hot Strip Mill has achieved 9 years LTI free and is running at a 98 per cent monthly safety audit involvement rate.
Our International Markets team in London achieved 15 years LTI free in October 2004.
Employees and contractors at Industrial Markets' New Zealand Steel and Port Kembla achieved a record 75 days and over 3 million hours LTI free in January 2005.

Port Kembla

The Plate Mill achieved one year MTI free in May 2005.
Steel Treatment and Casting Services achieved four years and 1 million hours LTI free in May 2005.
Refractory Services achieved one year MTI free in November 2004.
Laboratory Services achieved five years LTI free in February 2005.
Slabmaking achieved eight years LTI free in February 2005.
Iron & Slab Operations Services achieved 1 million hours LTI free in December 2004 and one year LTI free in January 2005.
Cokemaking achieved 500 days LTI free in April 2005.
Engineering Technical Services achieved 1 year MTI free, 29 months LTI free and no injuries in the month of June 2004.
Alliance Partner, Serco achieved one year LTI and MTI free in January 2005.

Australian Building & Manufacturing Markets

Australian Building & Manufacturing Markets achieved over 3 million hours LTI free and 172 days without an LTI in March 2005, a best ever performance.
The Springhill Painting & Finishing department achieved two years LTIR free in March 2005 and one year MTI free in July 2005.
Western Port achieved more than 200 days without an LTI in May 2005.
Coupled Pickle Cold Mill achieved more than 500,000 man hours MTI free since January 2004 and over 1.2 million man hours LTI free since November 2001.
CRM Service Centre achieved 4.5 years LTI free in April 2005.
Chullora Service Centre achieved 3.5 years LTI free in April 2005 and 2 years MTI free in February 2005.
Braeside Service Centre achieved 2.5 years LTI free in January 2005.

Australian Building & Logistics Solutions

BlueScope Steel Lysaght worked for a period of six months (over 1 million hours) LTI free.
BlueScope Lysaght Launceston and Chester Hill achieved ten years LTI free in February 2005.
BlueScope Lysaght Emu Plains and Dubbo achieved six years LTI free in November 2004 and December 2004, respectively.
BlueScope Lysaght Darwin and Northern Territory celebrated four years LTI free in November 2004. They were joined in this milestone by BlueScope Lysaght Gillman in South Australia in February 2005.
BlueScope Steel Research at Port Kembla achieved ten years LTI free in mid 2005.
Market and Logistics Solutions achieved 1 million hours LTI free in April 2005.