Dangote Cement Plc Annual Report 2021
Social continued
Health and safety performance
Improving our occupational and community health and safety
is fundamental to our business sustainability and brand. We
remain committed to safeguarding the health and safety of
our internal and external stakeholders; and continuously make
effort to identify all threats to health, safety and wellbeing in
our operations and commit the necessary human and material
resources for implementing corrective actions and continuous
improvement. To achieve our ultimate goal of zero accidents and
fatalities in our business operations and across our entire value
chain, we have made health and safety a critical/high priority
through the implementation of our comprehensive Health and
Safety Improvement Plan developed in 2020. This plan enables
us to take far-reaching performance enhancement steps in all our
operations. We will continue to upgrade our internal processes to
foster a safe working environment and align our health and safety
practices with local and global best standards.
Safety improvement initiatives in 2021
In addition to the various safety improvement initiatives we
commenced in 2020, during the year 2021, we executed
numerous key initiatives to advance safety performance across
our operations and logistics management:
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We promoted visibly and felt safety leadership through
regular meetings and communications on safety by executive
leadership.
We are promoting a culture in which all Dangote Cement
employees accept responsibility for collectively driving health
and safety best practices.
We executed extensive and comprehensive health and safety
competence development across the business from the
executives to front-line workers.
We are continually training and enforcing a safe system of
work on the use of operational tools, plant equipment and
the compulsory use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
We are improving compliance with relevant laws and
regulations and implementing applicable standards, including
ISO 45001:2018 (Occupational Health & Safety).
In the event of an incident we apply consequence management
to prevent a reoccurrence.
We executed a unified health and safety action plan, alcohol
and drugs tests pre and post-trip, provision of rest areas to
enable enforcement and compliance on night driving rules,
transport audits, review of accidents due to mechanical
faults. Our continuous improvement programmes also
include a workshop QA/QC process, improvement of post-
trip inspection of trucks, pre and post-trip safety briefings,
route risk assessments and communication of outcomes etc.
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We completed the full set-up of our transport training school to
include defensive driving and safety trainers, the introduction
of in-cabin coach for new drivers, introduction of training
tracking cards to ensure all drivers attend at least 8 hours of
safety training per annum, among others.
We also introduced fatigue management modules, health
awareness and general wellness for all drivers.
We enforce compliance with the Dangote 15 Safety Golden
Rules and are regularly auditing our health and safety
performance in all locations and operations.
In the year under review, we observed an increase in compliance
with the Rules compared to the previous year. Employees reported
all health and safety risks and incidents and are empowered to
stop any unsafe act. Our Board Technical and Sustainability
Committee has oversight on safety issues.
Health and safety awareness and training
During the year, we also executed training on understanding the
origin and nature of critical incidents and high potential near
misses. Root Cause Analyses (RCA) were carried out on all critical
incidents and high potential near misses to broaden the practical
understanding of key function owners on safety and incidents
management. These learnings and implementation of corrective/
preventive actions are designed to ensure that such incidents
are not recorded again in our operations. In addition, safety town
hall meetings were conducted by our Executive Management in
Dangote Cement locations to emphasise the need to work safely
and comply with laid down rules. In line with our zero accidents
and fatalities agenda, a total of 18,505 employees underwent
health and safety training and awareness sessions.
DANGOTE
CEMENT
Senegal SA
MEDIA VISIT
POUT
Health and safety performance (2017-2021)
across DCP plant operations
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DANGOTE
CEMENT
Type of incidents
Total number of work hours
Total number of near misses
Total number of first aid injuries
Total number of medical treatment
Total number of lost time injuries (LTI)
Total number of fatalities
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
28,117,655
10,567
339
28,888,151
22,852
220
17,385
322
28,489,399 29,828,480
11,523
306
33,485,774
1,341
306
98
73
50
55
79
47
22
25
25
38
2
4
2
7
9
Total number of staff trained on HSE
9,574
17,008
23,804
15,757
Total number of hours for staff training on HSE
44,666
105,086
85,905
86,664
15,392
30,784
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