Japan’s second largest steelmaker JFE Steel has announced that its East Japan Works in Keihin Area and Steel Bar & Wire Rod Division at its Sendai Works and have been certified under the ISO 45001 (JIS Q 45001) international standard for occupational health and safety management systems by JIC Quality Assurance. Sendai Works Steel Bar & Wire Rod DivisionProduction of steel bars, wire rods, and steel blooms and billetsEast Japan Works KeihinProduction of iron & steelThis now completes ISO 45001 certification of six of the company’s works, also including Chita Works, West Japan Works in Kurashiki and Fukuyama areas and East Japan Works in Chiba Area. JFE Steel is committed to continuously and effectively implementing compliant occupational health and safety management to maintain safe and healthy workplaces.The ISO 45001 standard, introduced by the International Organization for Standardization in March 2018, is a framework for activities implemented systematically, continuously and voluntarily, including declarations by the operator’s senior management regarding the company’s health and safety policies; investigations of hazards and/or harmful events and measures taken in response thereafter; setting health and safety targets; and preparation, implementation, evaluation and improvement of health and safety plans.Based on the core principle that safety takes precedence over everything else, all employees at the company’s steel mills and manufacturing plants take part in maintaining safe and healthy workplaces. To ensure autonomous and systematic management of such occupational issues companywide, JFE Steel establishes and maintains extensive procedures in compliance with ISO 45001.
Japan’s second largest steelmaker JFE Steel has announced that its East Japan Works in Keihin Area and Steel Bar & Wire Rod Division at its Sendai Works and have been certified under the ISO 45001 (JIS Q 45001) international standard for occupational health and safety management systems by JIC Quality Assurance. Sendai Works Steel Bar & Wire Rod DivisionProduction of steel bars, wire rods, and steel blooms and billetsEast Japan Works KeihinProduction of iron & steelThis now completes ISO 45001 certification of six of the company’s works, also including Chita Works, West Japan Works in Kurashiki and Fukuyama areas and East Japan Works in Chiba Area. JFE Steel is committed to continuously and effectively implementing compliant occupational health and safety management to maintain safe and healthy workplaces.The ISO 45001 standard, introduced by the International Organization for Standardization in March 2018, is a framework for activities implemented systematically, continuously and voluntarily, including declarations by the operator’s senior management regarding the company’s health and safety policies; investigations of hazards and/or harmful events and measures taken in response thereafter; setting health and safety targets; and preparation, implementation, evaluation and improvement of health and safety plans.Based on the core principle that safety takes precedence over everything else, all employees at the company’s steel mills and manufacturing plants take part in maintaining safe and healthy workplaces. To ensure autonomous and systematic management of such occupational issues companywide, JFE Steel establishes and maintains extensive procedures in compliance with ISO 45001.
