Fingrid’s occupational safety seminar at the end of last year featured a wide range of perspectives on the occupational safety culture. The main theme was clarifying and redefining occupational safety responsibilities.
At Fingrid’s occupational safety seminar, Veli-Pekka Nurmi, Director of the Safety Investigation Authority, spoke about how attitudes can affect the creation of a safe working culture.
In October and November, Fingrid ran its familiar safety observation campaign for people working on Fingrid’s sites. In 2019, the campaign aimed to collect high-quality observations to enable occupational safety improvements.
The boundaries between the responsibility for occupational safety and ensuring safety can sometimes be indistinct for the client and supplier. The successful management, leadership and development of occupational safety requires that both parties are aware of their responsibility and tasks related to it. On the basis of feedback from suppliers, Fingrid began a project entitled Crystal-Clear Line in August 2019 to improve and maintain a high standard of occupational safety.
Fingrid’s objective is to ensure that everyone working on our worksites gets home safely and healthily at the end of every working day. We have worked with our suppliers for several years to reach this objective. Thanks to our long-term occupational safety work, we have succeeded in reducing the number of accidents in the workplace and the lost-time injury frequency. Unfortunately, the lost-time injury frequency increased year-on-year in 2019.
At Fingrid’s occupational safety seminar in Vantaa last November, awards were handed out to three people who had an active influence on occupational safety.
The significant investments in the near future will lead to major challenges in terms of occupational safety, both for Fingrid and for our service providers and contractors, writes Manager Sami Mäki.
At Omexom, thorough orientation guides employees to constantly take occupational safety into consideration in everyday work. In addition to safety briefings and reviews, safety is seamlessly incorporated into every working duty.
Fingrid is investing in occupational safety by arranging several different types of orientation, training and occupational safety promotion events for service providers. Some of these are included in the contractual terms and conditions concerning safety.
Working in substations and on power lines requires service providers to have special expertise and uncompromising occupational safety management. Fingrid verifies the competences of the personnel of service providers involved in maintenance work through qualification. It is hoped that a national qualification practice will be agreed for the sector.
