Safety is understood in ME Elecmental through five work practices, or pillars:
1. Discipline and Accountabilitiy: Responsibilities are clear regarding actions everyone must comply with to operate safely. Leaders have the opportunity to demonstrate results with respect to occupational health and safety management. Recognition activities, as well as disciplinary measures in cases where there are repeat incidents or conscious unsafe actions are in place.
2. Safe Procedures and Controls: Standardizes the best-known way to perform the work in terms of safety, quality and productivity, with consideration forindividual responsibility. Integrates review and improvements based on observations and shift checks.
3. Training: 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 machinery certification and the continuous evaluation of risks in each position or workplace.
4. Safety Culture and Safe Workers: All employees considersafety first in all the decisions they make during on the job. ME Elecmetal has implemented leadership and behavioral safety programs at all levels of the company to leverage the commitment of our employees.
5. Focused Leadership: The role of leaders in relation to the daily decisions and behaviors of their work teams, working conditions and incidents reported. Safety issues are not overlooked, on the contrary: they are stopped and resolved before continuing operations. Feedback and coaching are the basic tools for modifying behaviors — hand-in-hand with recognition.
All of the above is achieved through tools in the Lean Manufacturing strategy.