Tofaş seeks to foster a sustainable occupational safety culture and to create safe workplaces.

Occupational health and safety (OHS) ranks the first among the elements of Tofaş’s, since it is the most important one. It is also an area in many aspects of which the Tofaş plant serves as a reference model within the Stellantis community. The plant is visited by firms wishing to observe Tofaş’s OHS operations and practices in action. Adhering to a proactive and lean WCM-based approach to occupational health and safety issues, Tofaş seeks to protect everyone coming into contact with its operations from risks that could be detrimental to their health or safety by fostering a sustainable OHS culture and by creating environments that are intrinsically safe.

TARGET: ZERO ACCIDENTS AND OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES

Tofaş strives to maximize OHS awareness not just among its own employees but also among its trainees, visitors, suppliers, and contractors. To this end, Tofaş commits itself to:

• Fulfilling all of its OHS-related statutory and other obligations;
• Abiding by the principle that all employees have a shared responsibility for contributing to continual-improvement (kaizen) processes;
• Soliciting the opinions of all personnel about OHS practices and ensuring participation in them;
• Reducing OHS risks by eliminating OHS threats;
• Continually improving OHS targets and performance in order to achieve sustainably zero work-related accident and illness rates.

Tofaş makes use of an OHS Management System in order to achieve zero work-related accident and illness rates. The company’s LTA (Lost Time Accident) frequency has fallen by 94% over the last fifteen years.

The biggest contributor to a vigorous OHS culture is employee training and OHS training is always a matter of the highest priority at Tofaş. In 2021 6,128 employees received a total of 74,512 hours of OHS training.

Workplace safety award

In a “Strong Communication = Safe Workplace Best Practices” competition organized by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security on the occasion of OHS Week, Tofaş received a “Setting an Example” award for its “10/10 Work Safety In Logistics” project.

OHS Training Project

Under its “Ensuring A Safe Future With OHS Training” project, Tofaş provides university students with training as a way of inculcating OHS culture among them. In 2021 this project received an award in the “Occupational Health & Safety” category in the “Shared Tomorrows” competition organized by the Turkish Confederation of Employer Associations.