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OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY

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The safety and health of our employees and contractors working at the facility every day.

 

 

Occupational Safety and Health Protection

At U. S. Steel Košice, SAFETY FIRST remains our primary and the most
important value in protecting life and health at work of our employees
and suppliers who work daily basis at the premises of the Company.

Ongoing implementation of 5S (Japanese for: sort, set in order, shine, standardize, sustain) housekeeping principles will assist in creating and maintaining an organized, clean, and high performance workplace across all facilities.

WORKED HOURS WITHOUT INJURY

On December 26, 2023 the Power Engineering reached 6,000,000 hours without a single OSHA injury. They thus joined the Transportation DP who were the first to reach this goal in January 2020.

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DEVELOPMENT OF THE FREQUENCY OF INJURIES

In 2023, the Company achieved (according to the methodology of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)) the frequency of all OSHA injuries 0.084 and the frequency of DAFW 0.000.

Compared to 2022, we recorded an increase of all OSHA injuries frequencies from 0.015 to 0.084, which is still below goal value of 0.096 The target frequency goals were not exceeded and are within the range that is significantly lower than the values achieved on average by steel-making industry.

SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (SMS)

We also continued with the activities aimed at making the Safety and Occupational Health at Work more efficient. In cooperation with experts from various fields and Manager for quality management system we continued with improvement of Safety Management System.

  • In the course of 2023, Internal Safety Management Systems Audits were carried out at all organizational units.
  • In October 2023 we vindicated the certificate according to Standard STN ISO 45001:2019. ISO 45001 specifies occupational health and safety standards to help reduce accidents in the workplace and provides tools to continuously improve OSHA performance.

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