APMT wins safety award

APM Terminals (APMT) has been named winner of the ‘Safety at Sea International’ award, recognising the company’s safety culture programme as “an initiative that demonstrates improved safe working practices or attitudes as a result of its implementation, either onshore or aboard ship”.

In 2009, APMT conducted a comprehensive company-wide training programme in 12 languages, introducing a safety culture and adoption of best-practice procedures into daily operations at the 50 terminals that make up APMT’s global network.

The goal was to instil a sense of personal responsibility for safety on the part of every employee and, thereby, eliminate the risk of injury and accidents due to unsafe attitudes, procedures and circumstances.

The result was a 43% reduction in overall lost-time injury, measured per million man-hours worked, to 4.1 from the 7.15 rate recorded the previous year.

“We have worked hard to continuously improve safety performance as one of the essential components of our sustainable business model,” said APM Terminals head of health, safety, security and environment, Henrik Kristensen.

“We can still improve and learn from others; our focus on safety never stops - it needs constant attention and is everyone’s responsibility” he added.
(Source:Container Management Magazine)