We commit to reach “zero occupational accident” goal persistently by continuously improving occupational health and safety culture. We create sustainable occupational safety culture through safe workplace and aim to protect all human resources within the borders of the company against injuries and health deteriorations. We achieve exemplary OHS applications in World Class Manufacturing (WCM) management model.

Our occupational health and safety practices have been rewarded for the second consecutive year in the Golden Glove category of the Occupational Health and Safety Best Practices Competition organized by Turkish Employers’ Association of Metal Industries.

At Tofaş, we carry out OHS activities via Occupational and Fire Safety unit which performs under Environment, Health and Occupational Safety management. We steer our Occupational Health and Safety processes through World-Class Occupational Safety and Tofaş OHSAS Policy, and we support our processes and applications by OHSAS 18001, WCM Occupational Safety Standards and Tofaş Contractor Procedure methodologies.

Occupational health and safety ranks in the first place in the WCM model as it is the most material factor. At Tofaş, we carry out practices which are introduced by FCA as benchmarks for others. Several companies visit Tofaş Factory to examine our remarkable practices.

We have reduced Lost Time Accident (LTA) frequency by 93% since 2006 when World Class Occupational Safety practice was initiated.

Occupational Health and Safety Trainings and Practices

We provide trainings to Tofaş and contractor employees with an aim to increase the occupational health and safety awareness. In 2017, we have organized OHS trainings for 66,306 person*hours to 8,934 Tofaş employees and for 6,710 person*hours to 8,947 contractor employees.

• Through Occupational Safety Simulation Training Field (DOJO) application, we aim to teach our employees the workplace risks by the help of risk simulated stations and equipment. In 2017, we have conducted 6,400 person*hours of DOJO trainings.
• Through 29 directives established in Contractor Management Procedure we aim to approach contractor processes proactively to audit and to make them safer by identifying the rules before the work starts.
• In the Occupational Safety Drama Training we support the maintenance of zero unsafe behavior at the non-routine works and the enhancement of the occupational safety culture through interactive methods.
• Through Attention and Concentration Test (Vienna Test) we aim to measure attention, concentration and motor skills of the vehicle operators, the maintenance and the quality control staffs and the test drivers.
• Based on our Safety Captain practice, field workers undertake occupational safety responsibility during a week in a lean production team of 8-15 workers. Thus, while Captains in charge perform their duties, they observe the possible workplace unsafe conditions and unsafe acts.
• Within our Team Flag practice, by hanging occupational safety flags in the work zone of production teams, we distinguish better performing teams.
• İSGo mobile application has been developed to support occupational safety culture and instant input of inconsistencies to the system. Inconsistencies that are detected via this application can be recorded instantly without losing time and field audit application (SMAT) entries can be done anywhere during the application.
• With Occupational Safety Certification application, we aim to measure risk evaluation abilities of our employees on site and to level these abilities. We carried this study which we formerly conducted in a special area on site to virtual platform via VR technology. Employees who log in to this certification through the application can wander around in 3D as if they are in a real manufacturing area and can perform risk audits.

Detailed information about Occupational Health and Safety and Tofaş Occupational Health and Safety Policy are available on: www.tofas.com.tr/en/sustainability/Pages/HealthandSafety.aspx or our 2017 Tofaş Annual Report which we publish interactively on ir.tofas.com.tr/en/index.html.