Showcasing its ongoing commitment to safety, which runs throughout the company, Dekra Industrial SA last year achieved its 8th annual NOSCAR safety award – the highest safety honour awarded by the National Occupational Safety Association (NOSA).
Ingrained safety culture
As part of its global parent company, Dekra Industrial in South Africa has played a major role in the fields of non-destructive testing (NDT) and inspection locally – serving a wide range of industry sectors – for many years.
Dekra Industrial’s Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) Manager, Carina Kleinhans, comments: “This award reflects our ingrained ethos of ‘living the safety culture’ across our company, country, and around the clock. The recent NOSA ranking also marks our highest score to date, at 97.48 percent – indicating our consistent improvement compared to our original 2013 score of 92.28 percent.”
Kleinhans adds that Dekra Industrial is committed to safety from management level through to each team member throughout its nationwide branches. “Every Dekra Industrial employee and contractor is encouraged to keep identifying areas for improvement and risk mitigation and management within the workplace. You could say that every branch and department is interlinked by our safety mindset and our management team operates an open-door policy to hear and attend to any areas of concern,” she says.
On top of safety requirements
Categories audited annually by NOSA include: leadership and worker participation; planning, support and operational; performance evaluation; improvement; safety; health; environmental; risk management; systems; compliance and effectiveness.
“In addition,” says Kleinhans, “legislative requirements change from time to time, and we have to remain abreast of any new legislative development. For example, 2020 brought in new reporting factors relating to Covid. Dekra Industrial complied with all new requirements – and succeeded in improving its NOSA ranking with a higher score.”
Managing Director, Johan Gerber adds: “These audited NOSA results are very pleasing and we are proud to have improved our results – from an already-high benchmark – and in line with our aim to be true ‘heroes of safety’. I congratulate Carina and the entire HSE team – as well as each employee throughout the company.”
“As well as improving our NOSA score on an annual basis, it is heart-warming to note that, whenever we leave a site, we are always able to say – with pride – that we worked there safely. In doing so, we are living our culture of being ‘on the safe side’ and going the extra safety mile,” says Kleinhans.
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