HSE

Sangan Khorasan Steel Mining Industries Co

The actions taken by Sangan Khorasan Steel Mining Industries Co in the fight against COVID-19 include:

Actions taken by the company's HSE department in line with the commitment to management systems:

Environment

Environmental Measures Implemented by the Company:

  1. Construction and activating the company's waste station and employment of a contractor for waste collection, segregation, and storage.
  2. Upgrading the company's environmental rating from Grade 1 to Grade 2 (changing the parameters for measuring and analyzing smokestacks).
  3. Efforts are being made to rectify ESP issues to ensure compliance with recent smokestack measurement standards.
  4. Preparing and submitting the company's quarterly waste self-declaration program and annual operational plan.
  5. Entering into a contract with an accredited environmental laboratory and measuring the smokestacks of the pellet plant.
  6. Obtaining an EMP (Environmental Management Plan) and conducting EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment) studies for the complex.
  7. Environmental impact assessment studies are underway for the construction of a tailings dam.
  8. Complete collection of the produced tailings deposited at point D and transfer of materials to the rock pile.
  9. Monitoring the implementation of ongoing environmental projects (wastewater treatment package, green spaces, tailings dam, completion of the waste station, evaporation lagoon, surface water collection network, septic tanks, etc.).
  10. Responding to correspondence and warnings from the Environmental Protection Agency in collaboration with Mr. Engineer Ghaderi (company consultant).
  11. Pest Control and Baiting for the Purpose of Eliminating and Combating Harmful Insects and Animals
  12. Perseverance for the Completion and Launch of 2 Stock Piles in the Company
  13. Preparation and Planning for Participation in the Tehran Environmental Exhibition and Local Environmental Programs to Introduce the Company as an Environmentally Friendly Entity
  14. Environmental monitoring, Enforcing Environmental Penalties, and Following Up on by removing contractors’ environmental conflicts
  15. Setting Environmental Workflows and Guidelines (Including Workflow Assessment of Environmental Aspects, Sampling, and Determining Pollutant Levels)
  16. Negotiating and Obtaining Approval from Environmental Protection Experts in the Country to Adjust additional stack oxygen (19% instead of the corrected 3% oxygen in calculation formula for exhaust gases of pelletizing 06 stack
  17. Company’s Removal from the List of Polluting Industries in Spring, Summer, and Autumn of 2019, and Pursuing Removal from the List in the Seasons of 2020
  18. Conducting 7 Environmental workgroup Meetings to remove environmental conflicts
  19. Monitoring and Proper Implementation of Environmental Programs at the Concentrate Factory
  20. Selling Separated Waste Materials at the Waste Station in Collaboration with the Commercial department
Safety and Fire Department
  1. Conducting general Safety Courses for Safety Authorization in Sangan Khorasan Steel Mining Industries Co
  2. Purchasing and Training of Advanced Fire Department Vehicles for SMIC
  3. Equipping the Site with an Automatic Fire Alarm and Suppression System
  4. Request for Implementation of Manual Fire Alarm Clients at the pelletizing Site
  5. Installation of Waiting Posts and Safe Fire Assembly Points
  6. Quarterly Safety Reports to the Department of Cooperatives, Labor, and Social Welfare
  7. Planning for Technical Certification of Industrial Machinery in Site
  8. Fire Extinguishing Training for All Personnel at SMIC
  9. Purchase of Standard Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Based on Workstations and Job Nature
  10. Purchase of FM200 and IG55 Gas Capsules for Environmentally Compatible Fire Suppression Systems
  11. Certification for Radiation Protection Courses to Safeguard the Workforce
  12. Implementation of Safety Procedures and Workflows
Occupational Health and Treatment
  1. Pre-employment and periodic (annual) medical examinations.
  2. Comprehensive review of medical records for the year 2019 and identification of individuals requiring follow-up and case-by-case reviews.
  3. Comprehensive analysis of occupational health indices.
  4. Implementation of the National Blood Pressure Control Mobilization Program for individuals over 30 years of age, recording, classification, and reporting of relevant information based on the approved forms of the Ministry of Health.
  5. Establishment of an Occupational Safety and Health Committee and regular meetings.
  6. Conducting job hazard analysis (JHA) for all production jobs with segregation of duties.
  7. Providing face-to-face training by a physician to visitors (medical and psychiatric).
  8. Implementation of Ministry of Health guidelines on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in the workplace (hypertension, diabetes, etc.).
  9. Measurement of workplace pollutants (physical, chemical, ergonomic, biological, etc.) (contractor selection in progress).
  10. Review and conduct epidemiological studies based on personnel exposure to occupational hazards.
  11. Planning and implementation of safety and health action plan in chemical protection.
  12. Implementation of occupational health training for employees based on the identified needs.