2019 SUSTAINABILITY REPORT
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Occupational Health and Safety

Occupational health and safety is the top priority in the World-class Management (WCM) model. Tofaş has set an example within FCA thanks to its policies that make a difference in terms of occupational health and safety. We host many people from local and foreign firms and governmental agencies, who visit us in order to review our occupational health and safety policies.

We are handling issues related to occupational health and safety through the Office of Occupational Safety and Fire Security which reports to the Environment and Occupational Health and Safety Office.  We support our processes and policies by Tofaş OHS Policy OHSAS 18001 (45001 transition process is under way), WCM Occupational Safety Standard, FCA Occupational Safety Standards, and Tofaş Contractor Management methodologies.

We are adopting the World Class Proactive and Simple Occupational Safety regarding occupational health and safety. We aim at creating a sustainable occupational safety culture and protecting all workforce within the boundaries of the plant from injuries and diseases through safe working areas and employees paying attention to safety. We are committed to achieving sustainable “zero work accident” and “zero occupational disease” by continuously improving occupational health and safety culture.

“We have improved Lost Time Accident (LTA) frequency 95% since 2006 when we initiated our World-Class Occupational Safety activities.”

Training in Occupational Health and Safety and Related Policies

We organize training programs in the interest of constantly raising awareness on occupational health and safety among our employees and contractor employees, ensuring that occupational health and safety culture is firmly established and embraced by more people through various practices. 

“In 2019, we provided 34.575 person*hour training in occupational health and safety for 4795 Tofaş employees and 3701 man*hour training for the employees of 701 contractors.”

Occupational Safety Simulation Training Area (DOJO)

It is our intention to inform our employees on work-related risks through equipment installed and simulated stations. In 2019, we provided DOJO training for 18.013 person*hour.

Inspection Certification through Virtual Reality (VR) 

We desire to measure employee capabilities to identify risks and to bring them to the same level. Employees perform audits in a 3D virtual medium, which contains a section of a real production area where certain types of non-conformance exist. Scores are assigned to risks identified and employees who have crossed a certain threshold are approved as auditors.

Contractor Management Procedure

Instructions are issued in order to ensure that contractor work is proactively supervised and that all standards are effectively established before the start of the work.

Occupational Safety Forum Theater and Drama Training

These are interactive training methods used for preventing unsafe behavior and to strengthen occupational safety culture. They ensure that employees join a play in order to have a learning experience on occupational safety.

Attention and Perception Test (Vienna Test)

The test aims at measuring attention, perception, concentration, and motor skills of construction machine operators, maintenance staff, quality control staff, and test drivers.

Occupational Safety Captain

It is an application where production teams made up of 8 to 15 field staff assume responsibility for occupational safety for two weeks. Captains wear special caps and arm bands during their assignment. They perform their own work while observing potential non-conformance and unsafe behavior in the workplace.

Occupational Safety Painting Competition

The occupational safety painting competition, which is organized annually in order to support occupational safety culture, is aimed at reaching out to the employees’ children. We invite children who take part in the competition to the plant and give them various prizes. Their paintings are exhibited at the factory.

Team Streamers

We put up streamers related to occupational safety in work areas of production teams in order to encourage zero accident rate. If no work accident has occurred, a blue streamer is displayed. If an accident has happened, an orange one is put up.

SMAT

In order to improve the safety culture and raise awareness in the company, we conduct auditing and training at the same time leading by management, applied by the relevant office and field employees at all levels.

Safety Patrol

We demonstrate the management's safety commitment through our safety field tours and our unsafe conditions and behavior determinations and rapid improvement actions.

Toolbox Meetings

Theme-based topics are taught to remind occupational safety criticalities.

Green Book

We have established our safety standards and compliance with these standards is ensured in existing settlements and applications, and in structures and applications to be added.

Trivia Train

With the application of safety trivia train game, it contributes to increase the safety culture and participation.

Kiken Yochi

It was created with the aim of developing the ability of employees working alone or as a team in TOFAŞ to predict and realize the hazards they may encounter in the workplace.

Intrinsic Safety Design

The safety team takes part in the project team as a participant in all stages from the design phase for the plant / machine / equipment / product to the completion of the installation in Tofaş, from the manufacturer's field, and makes necessary checks in terms of occupational safety.

Near Miss Classification

The severity of the near miss incidents occurring is different from each other. (A, B, C Type) Thanks to the sclassification of the near miss incident according to their severity, it is ensured that their actions are effectively followed and prioritized.

Autonomous safety controls

In order to evaluate current and potential unsafe conditions and behaviors, it is applied to define the method of checking the suitability of employees' own work area / equipment and personal protective equipment, hand tools, etc., in each shift.

Safety League

It was created in order to follow the safety activities of lean teams until the end of the year in the competition environment, to achieve their goals and to carry out team internalization activities by having fun.