In order to work in a focused way, safety is understood in ME Elecmental through 5 work axes or pillars:
1. Discipline and accountabilitiy: responsibilities are clear regarding the actions that everyone must comply with and do to operate safely. It also integrates an area for leaders to have the opportunity to demonstrate the results obtained in their areas with respect to occupational health and safety management. It includes recognition activities and disciplinary measures in case there are repeated incidents or in case of an unsafe conscious action.
2. Safe procedures and controls: standardize the best known way to perform the work in terms of safety, quality and productivity, considering the variable of individual responsibility. Integrates review and improvements based on observations and shift checks.
3. Training: this is a standardized plan that provides concrete tools to understand and correctly execute the procedures and controls established for each activity. It integrates three variables: the role of the supervisor, the certification of the machinery and the permanent survey of the risks of the work in each position or workplace.
4. Safety culture and safe workers: its purpose is that all the company’s employees have safety first in all the decisions they have to make during their work activities. To this end, we work on leadership and behavioral safety programs at all levels of the company, in order to leverage the commitment of the work teams.
5. Focused leadership: this is associated with the role of the leaders in relation to the daily decisions of their work team, the working conditions, the behavior of their team and the incidents reported. In other words, the safety issue is not overlooked, on the contrary: it is stopped and resolved before continuing the operation if necessary. In this context, feedback and coaching appear as the basic tools to be able to modify behaviors, hand in hand with recognition.
All of the above is worked through the tools of the Lean Manufacturing strategy.