Effective management systems are not only instrumental in ensuring safety at work, health, fire and environment protection, they also make a fundamental contribution to optimizing corporate processes in general. For the HARTMANN GROUP, they are fundamental to the company’s success. Effective and integrated process management is therefore an integral part of company policy.
Health & Safety and Enviroment (HSE) Site Assessment
In 2002 the HARTMANN GROUP introduced an innovative management tool Group-wide that assesses its sites comprehensively and objectively: the HSE Site Assessment. This system serves to identify HSE risks and to assess the existing level of HSE management at the relevant site. It simultaneously focuses on improvement potential in the fields of environmental protection, work safety, fire and health protection. The system takes account of differing circumstances at the various production sites and can thus be used internationally and universally not only for production sites but for warehouses, administrative centres and service centres, too.
The steam sterilization facility is one of the central elements of the production site we opened in Qingdao, China in 2001.
An HSE Site Assessment provides clear, quantifiable and rapidly accessible information. It thus offers major advantages to managers in particular and contributes to fulfilling planning, management and control functions in the fields of safety and environment and to implementing them consistently.
HSE Site Assessments are successfully conducted at over 30 international HARTMANN GROUP production and logistics sites every year. And we also make our positive experiences in this respect available to our joint venture partners. If they so desire, we include them in the site assessments at joint sites.
HSE Due Diligence
In 2003, we devised a “10-minute HSE Due Diligence”, an internal guide to identifying and assessing potential HSE risks at the various sites. This quick test runs through and assesses specific HSE indicators at the relevant site and reveals any risk factors in the fields of fire protection, safety at work and environmental protection, quickly and clearly.
In the case of corporate acquisitions or collaboration with suppliers, this tool provides our managers with particularly valuable information and aids to decision-making.
Integrated management system
In 2003, in order to continually improve our processes and the flow of our production, the HARTMANN GROUP started to introduce an integrated management system. The fact that with us environmental considerations plus others relating to work safety, health protection and fire protection are closely interlinked with quality management contributes to making internal processes easier to control. This also means that our regular internal audits, wherever possible in the form of combined HSE and quality audits, plus any certification by external organizations, can be conducted more efficiently.
We have already received joint certification of environment and quality management in accordance with ISO standards 14001 and 9001 at nine international sites in five countries.
HSE committees
Any safety and environment-relevant activities at the individual HARTMANN GROUP sites are monitored locally by a special panel, the HSE committee. To this end, members of the local management team and the works council plus one officer for each of the following areas: safety, fire protection, environmental protection and factory security meet up at least four times per year. The HSE committee is responsible for synchronizing, coordinating and internally communicating safety and environment-related topics specific to the particular site. It assesses and coordinates current safety and environment-related issues and devises preventative measures, which the local management or logistics management team or the Board of Management is then responsible for implementing. back to overview
