Alcoa is a global benchmark when it comes to Health, Safety and the Environment. The company is investing more and more in improvements in order to continue with its target of a zero work-related injuries and illnesses with
time-lost.
The main goal is that everybody who works in the company, whether they are employees or third parties, goes home in the same condition they arrived at work.
Investments in Health and Safety (R$)
All units in Latin America operate incentive programs in this area that focus on identifying the risks and developing solutions. One example of that is the program
"Keeping an eye on the risks", which is applied in Poços de Caldas, Itapissuma and São Luís (Alumar). The best employee suggestions relating to workplace safety are assessed by a team of analysts and may become internal safety norms.
For Alcoa it is important to maintain an incident-free working environment. Because of that the company adopts preventive measures that contribute to achieving a zero rate of occurrences of this type. In 2005, this was achieved in 12 locations in South America.
