Our safety vision never wavers.
We invest to achieve industry-leading standards and support our employees
We are committed to maintaining the highest safety standards and building a working environment in which everyone thrives. We have captured some of the highlights of the past year.
Our main goal is to prevent loss of life and serious injuries. To support this, we designed our 鈥楤e GFG Safe鈥� strategy, which LIBERTY has adopted, and we work relentlessly on our four health and safety pillars.
Our Safety Pillars
We develop standards, systems and tools based on industry best practices. In 2022, we introduced four new Global Health and Safety Standards and we shared 40 toolbox topics for our bi-monthly safety focuses.
We monitor, assess, and improve critical controls using an advanced investigation method. Trained leaders investigate critical incidents in all locations. This has led to 196 safety alerts being shared for organisational learnings.
We foster a caring culture by identifying and addressing error traps. In 2022, more than 8,000 employees had participated in Safety Connect, our behavioural safety programme.
We oversee employee safety from physical and chemical hazards and promote healthy lifestyles both in and out of work. In 2022, we launched our first Global Health Challenge to encourage our employees to create healthy
daily routines.
Interdependent Safety Culture
We made things safer through our Safety Connect programme, which has been rolled out across all operations. Our behavioural safety programme is focused on creating a culture whereby we look after each other by making a connection between safety at work and what matters most to each of us. It is a big part of our five-year plan to attain world-class safety performance by 2025.
We spent a year studying what causes incidents and how people react to them. 天博体育官方网站 programme was developed by a multi-disciplinary team that included LIBERTY leaders, safety professionals from Europe and Australia, and employee safety representatives, as well as through networking with mining and metal companies. Safety Connect sessions are led by experienced internal leaders with strong safety credibility across the workforce, with a senior leader present in each session.
By the end of 2022, more than 8,000 employees, 30% of the global workforce, had participated in the programme. Effects of the programme are seen in reductions in injury frequency and in the improvement in proactive reporting. Over the past year, proactive reporting rose by 84% compared with 2021. In 2022, our employees intervened in more than 65,000 at-risk behaviours.
Fit for Work and Fit for Life
In October 2022, we launched our first Global Health Challenge, to promote healthy lifestyles and encourage each other to introduce healthy routines in our daily lives. More than 150 teams, with 800 employees in total, participated, including Australia, the UK, the USA, the Czech Republic, Romania, and Italy.
During the eight-week challenge, we walked more than 463 million steps, a distance equal to almost nine laps around Earth. 天博体育官方网站 challenge fostered team spirit, motivation, support and celebration among participants. It also united people to develop habits for improved health and wellbeing.
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Sustainability
LIBERTY Steel has pledged to become carbon neutral by 2030 through our GREENSTEEL strategy that involves greater use of steel recycling, development and application of low carbon and renewable energy to power processes, and eventually, application of breakthrough technologies such as hydrogen steel making.
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ESG Strategy
This guides us towards the creation of profitable, resilient, and carbon-neutral businesses. Reducing emissions remains important to all our stakeholders as we reshape our operations to rise to the decarbonisation challenge.
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GFG Foundation
天博体育官方网站 GFG Foundation seeks to inspire, empower, and enable young people in industrial communities to reach their life and employment potential. We do this through running school programmes in areas where GFG Alliance has a significant presence. 天博体育官方网站se programmes give students some important skills to help them towards being job-ready after school. 天博体育官方网站se include STEM based learning programmes, designed to involve students in problem solving real-world issues that are happening in their local communities.
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