Occupational Health and Safety

Occupational health and safety is the most important factor in the World Class Manufacturing (WCM) management model. We are showing as an example in FCA with our difference practices. In our factory, we welcome many companies that come to examine our occupational health and safety practices.

In 2018 Within the scope of "European Best Practice Awards" Competition, organized by EU-OSHA, we won the competition held in Turkey, and earned the right to represent Turkey for the second stage that will be held across Europe in the future.

We carry out the Occupational Health and Safety issues through the Work and Fire Safety Management Unit, which is affiliated to the Directorate of Environment, Health and Occupational Safety. We support our processes and practices with Tofaş OHS Policy, OHSAS 18001, WCM Occupational Safety Standard, Fiat Occupational Safety Standards and Tofaş Contractor Procedure methodologies.

We adopt the “World-Class Proactive and Lean Work Safety” approach for occupational health and safety. We aim to create a sustainable occupational safety culture with safe working areas and to protect all human resources within the business boundaries from injuries and health breakdowns. We are committed to achieving the goal of zero occupational accidents and zero occupational disease by continuously improving the occupational health and safety culture.

“We've improved the Lost Time Accident (LTA) frequency by 95% since we started World Class Occupational Safety activities”

Occupational Health and Safety Training and Practices

We organize trainings in order to continuously raise the awareness levels of our employees and contractor employees on occupational health and safety, and ensure the establishment and spread of occupational health and safety culture through various practices.

In 2018, 6,920 Tofaş employees received 87,978 people * hours; 4.771 employees of the contractor company received 3,578 people * hours of occupational health and safety training.

Occupational Safety Simulation Training Area (DOJO)	We aim to communicate the risks in the working area to the employees with the help of established equipments and simulated stations. In 2018, we provided 21,124 person * hours of DOJO training.
Supervision Certification with Virtual Reality (VR)	We aim to measure and assess the ability of employees to identify risks in the field. Within the scope of the practice, employees are performing the audit in a three-dimensional virtual environment with a section of the actual production site with certain non-conformities. Employees who score a certain score are approved as auditors.
Contractor Company Management Procedure	We aim to proactively handle the work of contractors with the instructions created and to ensure that all rules are determined and audited before the work starts.
Occupational Safety Forum Theater and Drama Trainings	Interactive training methods used for zeroing unsafe behaviors and strengthening the occupational safety culture. As a part of the game, employees are provided with learning experience on occupational safety.
Attention and Perception Test (Vienna Test)	With the help of the test, we aim to measure attention, perception, concentration and motor skills of work machine operators, maintenance personnel, quality control personnel and test drivers.
Occupational Safety Captain	Occupational Safety Captain is a practice where work safety responsibility is undertaken by field workers for one week in manufacturing teams consisting of 8-15 people. The assigned captains carry hats and armbands specially prepared during their tenure, while observing possible workspace nonconformities and unsafe behaviors while doing their jobs.
Occupational Safety Painting Competition	We aim to reach to the children of the employees with the occupational safety painting competition organized every year to support the occupational safety culture. We invite children to participate in the competition together with their families and give them various gifts. The pictures they draw are displayed in the factory and hangs in the field.
Team Flags	We encourage the accident-free working areas of the manufacturing teams with regard to occupational safety. If there was no work accident in the team, the blue, if it was, the orange pennant is hanging.