GARMCO Launches Its Workplace Safety Awareness Campaign !!!

The importance of safety campaigns cannot be underestimated. No doubt the effort, expense and coordination to successfully pull off a safety campaign can be large. But, the rewards and benefits can be even greater. The opportunity to reemphasize the importance of safety to your workers in a different manner or different message should never be passed up. The Aluminium Plant Safety Blog has posted stories of various safety campaigns that companies in our industry have undertook. Here is another story of a recent launch of a safety campaign:

Gulf Aluminium Rolling Mill Company (GARMCO), the Bahrain-based international aluminium rolling mill and one of the largest downstream aluminium facilities in the Middle East, announced on June 7, 2015 the kick-off for its Safety Awareness Campaign 2015 under the title “You can make this, THE SAFEST PLACE”. The campaign will be held under a ‘Superheroes’ theme, and will include a series of safety awareness activities given by external senior lecturers and doctors.  

(from Right to left): Mr. Jean-Baptiste Lucas (CEO), Dr. Mohammed Sulail and
Mr. Abdulrazzaq Ameen GM – Operations).

 GARMCO’s staff will be attending a series of sessions for one continuous week. These sessions include:

·        Workers’ Responsibility Against Health and Safety Legislations,

·        General Traffic Rules,

·        Precautions For Your Health In Ramadan,

·        Vitamin D Vital Role in Your Health by,

·        Health Risks of Smoking.  

GARMCO managers distributing flyers as a campaign launch activity

Other educational trainings such as:

·        Heat exhaustion,

·        Forklift,

·        Housekeeping,

·        Along with sessions on child behavior Issues and parental relationships will also be given.

The safety awareness campaign will be reinforcing the Health and Safety rules and guidelines, related key performance indicators, job safe practice training, and preventive campaigns which are conducted on a regular basis at GARMCO.  The site is fully-equipped with a health center and fire station; and regular medical check-ups for staff, and fire drills and emergency evacuation exercises, are conducted. Further to that, appropriate protective equipment is provided in areas where there may be a risk of injury or exposure to hazardous substances or conditions.

Commenting on the Campaign, Ms. Hind Al-Sabbagh, Head of Corporate Communications at GARMCO said, “We are delighted to announce the launch of the upcoming safety awareness campaign. The main idea is to make the campaign more memorable and a little humorous while emphasizing the seriousness of the messages. By drawing on the hero theme, GARMCO encourage workers and staff to be heroes by not underestimating any risk in the workplace no matter how small”.

The Aluminium Plant Safety Blog congratulates the management and workers at GARMCO for all they do to make their workplace the safest it can be. We firmly believe that this story will be used as inspiration for another company. We can imagine someone saying “look what Garmco just did, we can do that here”. The truth is that yes your company, your plant can launch a safety campaign. 

The editors of APSB were in the Middle East a few months ago and our scheduled prevented us from visiting GARMCO. Which is unfortunate, but on our next visit we’ll make sure we stop by GARMCO.

Keep up the good work GARMCO, the industry has taken notice and we love what you are doing!

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