On 25th September our Somercotes Rail Solutions operation reached a significant milestone in its journey to Zero4Life, the site achieved 20 years without a lost time incident (LTI).
To celebrate this fantastic achievement, the leadership team recognised this amazing achievement with a standdown and arranged food and ice creams for all the team across all the shifts.
Terence Clair, Business Manager, said: “I am proud beyond believe of the teams past and present and the commitment shown by everyone in keeping us all safe. I have commented almost every year on the team’s success, and I remember our 10 year celebration, did I think at the time we’d reach another 10? ‘Absolutely!
Every day is a new day and the risks we face start over, and we must maintain our respect of the risks. The team at Somercotes maintain a very complex operation and like most of our operations within Cemex, face similar challenges but also, they have a set of unique challenges due to the nonstandard nature of the product we manufacture. They work daily with the fluctuations in volume finding that balance of recruiting temporary staff in time to ensure they are competent in our Health and Safety expectations but any uplift in volume.
Celebrating is a key element of our safety journey, it shows how a proactive approach can reduce the risk, incidents, and accidents, this is a matrix of positivity, and we should shout about its success. Like with any success story it can be short lived if we don’t maintain our standards and look to improve where we can, every day. I would like to say a big thank you to the wider team, our Safety Advisors and Managers, the leadership I look to for support and guidance, they are always there when needed, the message you send is clear and this gives us a clear vision of what we need to achieve.”
The loop of infinity demonstrates our commitment to ‘Zero4Life’ will never end.