Since its founding, Wanhua has been making efforts for continuous improvement of its HSE management system, aiming at making an HSE management model in the chemical industry in the world.
Health concerns
Staff health is significant to the future development of an enterprise. Wanhua takes staff health index into corporate management.
Wanhua adds "health training" to its training program, brings health assessment into its assessment system, evaluates the mental and physical health status of staff members combining staff self-evaluation, mutual evaluation and their families & friends, adjust their positions in time based on the health assessment results and the requirements of positions.
1. Arrange compulsory health examination for staff members, conduct a survey of the work style, life style family medical history of staff through questionnaire, and establish staff health records.
2. Based on staff health records, perform analysis and evaluation, classify and grade staff members according to their health status, and establish health management system.
3. Based on the analysis of corporate health data, provide suggestions on daily dining, sports and recuperation for staff.
4. Based on staff health grade, establish "health performance" assessment system.
5. Cooperate with related medical treatment or health organizations to provide health information and medical guidance for staff.
6. Try to create a harmonious atmosphere in the work place and reduce mental pressure of staff.
Safety management
The nature of the industry that Wanhua is engaged in determines that "Unsafety is the No. 1 risk against the corporate development" and "Never compromise on safety" are the basic requirements of its responsibility for its shareholders and the society.
Wanhua believes that only safety is ensured first can the enterprise be in normal operation, the staff members be provided with opportunities for development, the shareholders and the society be rewarded.
Ten safety concepts of Wanhua
- Never compromise on safety.
- My zone, my responsibility(I am responsible for the safety in the area I am in charge of).
- Every staff member must be responsible for the safety of himself and others.
- All the accidents can be prevented.
- Safety is the precondition for all the work.
- Potential hazards mean accident.
- Potential safety hazards must be removed immediately.
- Good safety creates good business performance.
- Safety is the requirement for employment.
- Pay attention to safety in every place conceivable (Safety everywhere counts).
Safety committee & meeting system
We think that safety committee and safety meetings are very effective in the establishment and execution of corporate safety guidelines, collection and publicity of safety knowledge, recording of staff’s participation in safety activities and their efforts, creation and maintaining of safety performances, etc.
The committee is, in principle, composed of organizers, specialized safety staff and other experts.
As there are lots of variables and parameters, such as the scale of factory, status of personnel and way of operation, etc., this typical organization allows flexibility in structure.
As for this organization, it is very necessary for Central HSE Committee to guide, coordinate safety affairs and make out necessary safety principles.
Elements of health, safety and environment management system
1. Strong commitment and practice of the management
The commitment of top management, middle-level management and common staff is a basic element of a successful HSE management system, and the commitment of contractors is also necessary. The commitment of top management is very important to the establishment of HSE system. They shall not only make commitment, but also put it into practice. And they should know that good safety brings good business performance.
2. Challenging HSE aims and goals
HSE goal is the direction of HSE work. By establishing challenging goals and tasks, the units and departments will actively organize and develop extensive innovative HSE activities to achieve the goal.
3. High standard on safety performance
A clear operation procedures & standards system is needed for safety practice. We should set up basic HSE standards for our rountine and non-routine work, and make each staff member fully aware of the HSE requirement for any work they do.
The basic reference for setting standards is local laws and regulations.
Professional safety staff shall perform round-check to inspect whether safety standards are met.
4.Continuous safety incentive
Safety incentive plays the role of promotion in an effective HSE management system. The best safety incentive can make staff members participate in safety action, recognize and reward them for their skills, efforts and suggestions.
5. Safety audit
This is a universal pyramid of danger. Through analysis of this pyramid, two important means of safety management are concluded, i.e., preventive management and risk management.
Before an accident happens, identify the risk and control it through effective means, i.e., the base of the pyramid. We will remove the base by adopting safety audit.
"Respect people" is the base to carry out safety and safety audit realizes this concept well. Through the communication between managers & employees and between employees based on respect, remove the unsafe behavior and environment in the cradle, which not only realizes self-protection, but also lays foundation for the realization of mutual protection.
6. Accident investigation
We will make deep investigation into all the accidents above the base of the pyramid.
We do not want to see any accidents, but we will surely learn from the accidents which have happened, make deep investigation into them, and find out the basic reasons on management to perfect the safety procedures, so as to perform safety management and to reduce the height of the pyramid.
Environmental protection
With the continuous improvement of production capacity, Wanhua, by increasing expenses on scientific research, makes the most of resources, energy and materials, lowers consumption of each resource, gradually reduces the discharge of waste gas, waste water and solid waste, performs safe and reasonable disposal of various wastes so as to protect local environment to the maximum.
Energy saving:
1. Waste heat utilization
Wanhua makes full use of the waste heat produced by production facilities, for heating in winter and cooling in summer.
2. Energy integration
During facilities innovation, Wanhua makes full use of energy integration theory, uses the residue heat of equipment to prepare steam, thus saving the cooling medium needed by the facilities.
3. Facilities optimization
4. Technical innovation & parameter optimization
Wanhua keeps performing overall process parameter optimization on present facilities, lowers energy consumption of facilities, increases product transformation rate and resources utilization rate by technical innovation & equipment renewal.
Water saving
1. Wanhua increases the re-utilization rate of industrial water to over 90% by establishing independent industrial water circulatory system.
2. During each inspection & maintenance of facilities, Wanhua keeps improving its technology, increases the condensation of circulating water, and adopts the latest energy saving equipment to lower make-up process water.
Three-waste disposal
1. Waste water disposal
- A. Recycle and re-utilize water in the facilities to lower consumption of fresh industrial water and to reduce discharge of waste water.
- B. Perform parameter optimization on the facilities and reduce the production of waste water in the system.
- C. Adopt international advanced technology, increase the condensation of circulating water, lower make-up water and reduce the waste discharge of circulating water.
2. Solid waste disposal
- A. Change intermission type into continuous production process, which improves the quality of products and greatly reduces the discharge of residue.
- B. In strict accordance with the requirements of comprehensive management system, perfect the control flow of solid waste, strictly control the production of solid waste, classify, control & dispose the solid waste produced, and realize continuous improvement.
- C. Classify, recycle and re-utilize the dangerous waste produced; as for the waste which couldn’t be recycled, dispose according to local regulations.
3. Waste gas disposal
- A. Improve the waste gas disposal system of production facilities, greatly reducing the discharge of the system to the atmosphere.
- B. Optimize the production process parameter and lower the proportion of gas in the raw materials so that the proportion of elementary substance in raw materials is optimized, reducing the pollution on the atmosphere at the root while lowering energy consumption.
- C. Establish internal management system to control possible pollution of production on the atmosphere and to make corresponding emergency response measures.
Improve management basis
1. Strengthen on-spot management and prevent leakage.
2. Introduce "5S" into the company, standardize on-spot management, and improve "saving" sense of all the staff.