Wednesday, February 10, 2016

"“In Alba we want people to live and breathe safety"

Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C (Alba), one of the leading aluminium smelters in the world, launched the ‘Safety Hour’ Campaign on February 02, 2016 to elevate safety levels at workplace and increase employees’ awareness towards safety in general.

Friday, February 5, 2016

Wednesday, February 3, 2016

"One of the injured people sustained burns to his entire body..."

The rule of nines is an anatomical and graphical tool that divides the total body surface area (TBSA) into segments that are multiples of 9%. This tool is used to determine the amount of body burned in percent. It is our experience that workers with over 55% of their body burned eventually succumb to their injuries. 

Monday, January 25, 2016

"it was only by pure luck that 100 lives weren’t lost..."

This is a photo taken from the aluminium company bus transporting workers to their plant. It traveled through an active brush fire area.

Thursday, January 14, 2016

"management... minimized ... accidents or hidden them away."

The APSB views safety as a wall with many pieces; corporate management, plant managers, ehs managers, workers, union, contractors, etc. Sometime if these pieces do not work together for the greater good cracks appear, and safety suffers.