Sidenor Corporate Report 2019

62 Corporate report 2019 | People In line with our commitment to safety, we became in 2018 the first company in the Spanish steelmaking sector to obtain the certification according to ISO 45001 standard, which was released the same year. In order to achieve this major objective, we have had to adapt our Management System, which complied with former OHSAS 18001, in order to meet the requirements of the new standard. In the same way, we also took measures to adapt to the new obligations, taking into account the interested parties and health development in the Company. With the purpose of further advancing in this field, we foster new actions in order to facilitate the establishment and management of the Company’s security system. To this end, we have launched an application in order to set part of the management system in company electronic devices and thus accelerate documentary bureaucracy, which is automatically organised and filed in the system. In addition, we are changing the access control application, in order to speed said control, further adapt it to the specific needs of each precise area in Sidenor plants and link it to the business activity coordinator. In 2019, we launched Sidenor’s healthy company policy and set up work teams in all plants, along with specific actions aimed at improving workers’ health. Collective agreements We have collective agreements in all our worksites, which cover 85% of our professionals, as was the case in 2018. We maintain a permanent and continuous channel of contact with union leaders so as to involve them in future decisions which affect activity or working conditions, especially as regards health and occupational safety. Thus, collective negotiations have resulted in the entry into force of our Prevention Plan, which includes all people of the organisation and undergoes regular review in order to improve our safety and occupational health systems. For this purpose, the Safety, Health and Environment Committee meets every month in each worksite. This Committee is composed of the prevention delegates and the same number of company representatives who are responsible for the development, implementation and evaluation of the risk prevention plans and programmes in the Company. The first Spanish steel company with