Down the incidents to the Vecon terminal of Venice graces to a specific program for safety



Vecon Spa, the Venetian terminalista society that takes part of group PSA of Singapore, has recorded in a 2014 reduction of 20% of the incidents on the job thanks to the performance of the Ambient Plan and Safety that has seen some initiatives realized in collaboration with the Harbour Authority of Venice. "The greater innovation introduced in 2014 - the director of the Venetian terminal has explained, Roberto Goglio - has regarded the methodology of risk assessment second the defined outline "Take 5" entrusted also every single collaborator, so as to afford to signal eventual anomalies that could emerge during the working activities and evidencing possible solutions of improvement. Moreover a system of monitoring aimed at the professional increase of all the workers of Vecon-PSA is introduced affording to this last not only interacting directly with staff of the business direction, but also with the colleagues of other terminals of the group, for a best practice exchange in the field that it has afforded to bring to light the respective strengths and weakness in safety topic".

Vecon has specified that the decrease of the accidents been necessary to those who they operate in the terminal is the result of activity times to a greater identification and effectiveness of the barriers guaranteeing that the outcome of the analyses of the dangers was coherent with the processes of job, the meaningful activities and equipments second the international parameters of safety (HSSE - Health, Safety, Security and Environment and MSS - Minimum Safety Standard) - let alone activity of audit - that the contractors involve not only the staff but also. The activities of Flat Safety and Atmosphere have regarded also investments in equipments and infrastructures, among which the ways of race of operating means, the activities of extraordinary maintenance in dock and the identifying implementation of the street one.

In the within of the initiative among other things winners of the competition indetto from Vecon for best the slogan for safety are rewarded two operators of the terminal: "Safety is not a optional, in PSA it is of series" of Mirco Vangelista and "It respects safety… you win the life" of Massimiliano Busetto.

"We want that in all the port of Venice safety is of series", the general secretary of the Harbour Authority of Venice, Claudia Marcolin has commented, emphasizing that the activity of Vecon represents a best practice for the Venetian port of call to export near other terminals. "When it is chosen a terminal - it has found - is chosen for the standards that guarantees. When it is entered in harbour area must quickly be had the perception that is being operated in an atmosphere where the safety is a principle that invests not only the workers of the terminal, but all which take part to you, beginning from the suppliers of services. On this principle, with the collaboration of the Spisal and the other institutions involved in protocol SOI we will work because safety becomes a modus vivendi of all the harbour community".

For the 2015 ulterior initiatives are previewed between which formative actions turned not only the civil employees of the terminal, but to all the workers who find themselves to operate in harbour and terminalistico atmosphere, between which the haulers, with measures times to the respect of the norms of circulation inside of the terminal.