RESERVED AREA Password ITALIAN ENGLISH DEUTSCHE COMPANY VALUES PRODUCTS NEWS ARCHIVE CONTACTS INTALS WINS A SAFETY AWARD FROM THE EUROPEAN ALUMINUM ASSOCIATION 30 July 2015 The company that deals with aluminum recycling in Parona was awarded by the European Aluminum Association for an innovative solution. The idea was to install a detection system on every vehicle that moves inside the plant and on the helmets of those who work in the vicinity, so as to be immediately warned when a vehicle approaches a distance that requires particular. attention, to avoid creating a risky situation. Basically a simple but absolutely not obvious idea, which very effectively neutralizes one of the main dangers within a large factory where vehicles of various kinds and sizes are always in operation. This solution earned Intals the second safety prize awarded by the Safety Workshop of the European Aluminum Association (EAA), the body that represents all the companies dealing with aluminum in Europe and which has the specific objective of promoting the sustainability of aluminum and therefore its industrial and economic importance. And the safety workshop in particular looks for the best solutions adopted by a company and transferable to all the others, in the logic ofbest practice and the exchange of ideas and experiences. Safety has always been an absolute priority for Intals, a fundamental aspect of the work to which important investments are dedicated both for state-of-the-art systems and for training initiatives that involve all the company's workers across the board. This commitment was recognized by obtaining the OHSAS 18001 certification already in 2011 for the management of Health and Safety of Workers, and inspired particularly innovative initiatives such as the performance bonus that Intals has introduced since 2013 and which provides that only the objectives productivity achieved by respecting all safety rules are fully exploited, and indeed receive an additional economic incentive, while on the contrary those who have managed to achieve their goals but without respecting all safety rules, The second place that Intals achieved in this “Safety Solutions Competition” of the European Aluminum Association was awarded by a jury made up of 67 safety experts from all over the world, who evaluated the innovative ideas of 46 companies in the sector. Aluminum is a world that has always been very sensitive to safety issues, and in fact has managed to reduce accidents by 79% from 1997 to today, and in its "Sustainability Roadmap" it aims to halve further next ten years. In the field of safety, compliance with the rules is the last link in a long chain that starts from the diffusion at all levels of the company of a deep-rooted safety culture, which must be strongly legitimized and promoted by top management and arrive to each individual worker through a specific training course. Clearly a large part of the investments is also dedicated to concrete and tangible aspects, such as systems and devices designed and built to optimize user safety, but all this would be of little use if there were not an acquired mentality that makes safety an absolute priority, and which therefore makes all those behaviors, even minimal and apparently irrelevant, natural and immediate, but which contribute to making the difference between a safe situation and one at risk. View pdf >> Intals SpA - info@intals.it - VAT number: 05860300150 | Somet SpA - info@sometspa.it - VAT number: 05860280154 | Via E. Schievano 7 - 20143 Milan - Tel. 02 8180941 - Fax 02 89122171