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SUSTAINABILITY REPORT | 2013 36 Operating Responsibly Qatalum actively works to manage and mitigate risks to the health, safety, and wellbeing of Qatalum employees and contractors. operationg responsibly means managing the impact Qatalum has on the environment through becoming more effcient and reusing or recycling by products. “ We take great pride in being one of the top performing smelters in the Gcc with our current safety performance. We encourage innovative environmental approaches within our smelter and are uncompromising towards maintaining zero harm to people within our boundaries.” –DCEO Khalid Mohd Laram. Qatalum consistently achieves high standards in the management and operations of the plant through its Health, safety, and environment (Hse) management system. operational excellence depends on a healthy workforce and safe operations. to further improve the implementation of the system, in 2013 Qatalum began the implementation of a saP based incident investigation and reporting system, which will signifcantly reduce the gap between an incident, its reporting, and a response. Qatalum also made sure that 100% of the incidents that did happen were investigated and lessons were learned from each incident. Qatalum has also transitioned training for high risk activities to be conducted internally rather than externally, allowing for better control over the quality of training, reduced costs associated with travel, and reduce lost work hours going to and from trainings. in 2014, the Hse department will pursue fulflment of the iso 14001 and oHsas 18001 certifcations to make sure that Qatalum’s Hse practices comply with the highest international standards.