ISSF announces winners of safety and sustainability awards
Time:Mon, 28 May 2018 04:41:04 +0800
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The International Stainless Steel Forum has announced the winners of the Gold, Silver and Bronze Awards in the categories Sustainability and Safety during their 22nd conference which was held in Shanghai.
Safety Awards
The ISSF introduced a Safety Award Program which invited members to submit good ideas from their Safety Programs. Those good ideas are circulated among other members, following the simple premise that everyone can learn from the mistakes or accidents of others. The winners have the benefit of peer recognition and a Certificate which can be used in their own publications. Everyone who submits an entry is recognised by having their entry included in the ISSF Annual Safety Awards Report, which is circulated to all members and published on the ISSF extranet.
Lucien Matthews of Columbus Stainless receiving the Gold Award from Dr Basson
Gold Award: Columbus Stainless for the Ladders that improved the safety and work environment at the weigh bridge gate
Silver Award: Aperam for the Health and Safety Mind set change programme
Bronze Award: Outokumpu for the SafeStart safety initiative
Sustainability Awards
Where it was once sufficient to show you did not discharge hazardous waste to water air or land; and to show you recycled and used recycled scrap; and to show you measured your CO2 emissions; now the scope of sustainability is widening year by year.
This is a non-competitive issue and one where bench-marking against best in field practices is surely beneficial for the industry as a whole. It is important to show the public and the local, regional and central governments an industry which is determined to do what is practically possible to sustain the environment.
To provide a platform from which best practices can be circulated, and to inspire deeper thought about these issues, the ISSF surveys its membership every year about best practices in Sustainability and publishes the results, so that each can learn from the others. To encourage participation, a competition is held, based on the responses from members to select the best entry, followed by two runners-up. These Awards have value, because they are a recognition of excellence in this field, and the Certificates may be used in promotional literature.
Camilla Kaplin from Outokumpu receiving the Gold Award from Dr. Basson
Gold Award: Outokumpu for the material efficiency, cost and environmental improvements through pelletising of light scrap
Silver Award: Columbus Stainless for the Columbus Water Recovery programme
Bronze Award: Nippon Yakin Kogyo for reducing packing material waste
