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Excellence in sustainability
‡ POSCO – Recycling shell waste for sustainable steelmaking
Excellence in Life Cycle Assessment
‡ Tata Steel – PACI – a tool to support innovation and customer engagement life cycle thinking in the steel value
chain
Excellence in education and training
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Excellence in communications programmes
‡ Gerdau S.A. – How the century-old Gerdau transformed its image and became the steel company with the
highest global engagement

WORLDSTEEL SAFETY AND HEALTH EXCELLENCE RECOGNITION 2022
As part of its commitment to the highest safety and health standards, the World Steel Association (worldsteel)
recognises excellence in seven of its member companies for delivering demonstrable improvements in safety and
health.
The recognised companies this year are:
For safety culture and leadership
ArcelorMittal – A sustainable journey to zero accidents
Initiated in 2017 after a fatality, ArcelorMittal Long Brazil needed to redirect the health and safety strategy by
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JFE Steel Corporation – Horizontal development to prevent similar accidents
The company-wide horizontal activities programme was initiated in 2020 to establish a systematic approach
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implementation of safeguards.
For occupational safety management
Emirates Steel – Enhancing crane operations and rigging safety
In 2018, Emirates Steel started implementing a comprehensive safety improvement programme focused on crane
operations and rigging activities with the following key components:
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U. S. Steel – Haul truck and loader tyre safety improvement
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in potentially hazardous situations. One of the most critical aspects of this system is that it allows employees to
check tyre pressure and temperature from a remote location, ensuring a safer working environment.
For occupational health management
Tata Steel – Wellness@Workplace Programme
Tata Steel’s innovative Wellness@Workplace Programme aims to improve and maintain employees’ overall health
and well-being through a unique organisation-wide platform, ensuring uniform rollout, monitoring and improvement.
For process safety management
Hyundai Steel – replacing high-risk tasks with quadruped robots
Hyundai Steel’s Dangjin Steelworks introduced the quadruped robot (SPOT) to prevent workers from being
exposed to explosion risk and related accidents. Its target is to make use of the robots in 156 gas facilities and
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POSCO Holdings – Smart Safety Ball
The Smart Safety Ball (SSB) is a new concept gas detector that checks the concentration of harmful gases inside
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