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Norilsk Nickel encourages miners to improve safety culture

14 june 2023
Senior Vice President of Norilsk Nickel - Production Director Sergey Stepanov awarded four miners of the Norilsk division with letters of thanks for improving preventive work to prevent and reduce the level of injuries, occupational risks, accidents and incidents, to improve working conditions at the workplaces of employees of the company's branches and Russian organizations of the corporate structure of Norilsk Nickel.
"The fact that the company's employees find time to do something beyond what is required by the job description at their production site is worth a lot. The more such people we have, the more places there will be where employees can be completely calm about their health," Stepanov said. 
"Norilsk Nickel has implemented risk management standards, dynamic risk assessment is carried out at workplaces, registers of hazard and risk identification are being created. A person should be warned about the dangers that await him at work before starting his duties. The lives of people, their health and the well-being of the families of our employees depend on this," said Grigory Ivanov, Deputy Chief Engineer for Blasting Operations at the Rocky mine.
The company Norilsk Nickel declared the main goals in the field of occupational safety and industrial safety as the absence of catastrophic accidents at work – the prevention of accidents at the company's facilities with a negative impact on residents of the regions of presence and planned indicators, sgnorilsk.ru wrote.

Alex Shishlo for Rough&Polished