Industrial safety

Established in 2014, Steel Safety Day was set up to reinforce awareness of the five most common causes of safety incidents and to create a safer working environment across the entire steel industry worldwide.

By focusing every year on the top five causes of serious safety incidents - moving machinery, working at heights, falling objects, on-site traffic and process safety incidents - worldsteel and ISSF intend to set up a continuous improvement process and reiterate its commitment to the safety and health of the people who work in the industry.

Each year, one of the five causes is highlighted to raise awareness of the cause and how to prevent associated risks.

This activity is organised in cooperation with the World Steel Association. This year, worldsteel is collaborating with 3M to deliver a series of webinars identifying the risks involved at working at heights and how to manage them. Find out more here

We should equally never forget that the development of our safety performance in both the above areas is a journey that encompasses several multi-disciplinary approaches with behavioural safety thinking at the heart of our journey. The well-known DuPont Bradley Curve below provides both some guidance and some food for thought in how we should approach our safety performance development. Understanding our current position on the Bradley Curve is important to guide further development. Failing to understanding this starting point will invariably lead to a fire-fighting approach to safety management rather than a structured approach which will allow safety performance to improve year-on-year.

The two guidance documents below are meant to offer some clear safety management structure and support for our members, however they are not written to handle specific and detailed questions on safety management. Any wider and/or specific issues that are giving cause for questions and uncertainty within your organisation can be put to the ISSF team for further support and answers. Please contact Tim Collins, Secretary-General (collins@issf.org) if you have some concerns.