Safety top priority for chemical giant Bluestar

Safety expert from Australian plastics maker Qenos shows Bluestar workers how to identify hazards at a chemical plant. CHINA DAILY

With the help of their foreign teachers, more than 60 students carefully identified hazards in a factory and then photographed them as learning materials.

It was not a course at university, but part of a production safety training program held recently at Lanzhou Silicon Material Co.

And the participants were not school teachers or enrolled students. They were safety experts from Qenos, an Australian maker of plastics acquired by China National Bluestar Co in 2006, and employees from five of Bluestar's chemical subsidiaries.

The training program is an important component of a long-term project launched by Lanzhou Silicon to improve production capacity, management and job safety by learning advanced foreign technologies, experience and systems.

The company's core safety management system is called SHE, which stands for safety, health and environmental protection.

Lanzhou Silicon based the system on the Qenos approach, and then made some changes to meet its own conditions.

Since 2011, SHE experts have been giving training and regular assessments on implementation every year.

Held this month, the most recent four days of training mainly focused on hazard awareness and control, equipment preparation, incident investigation and change management, both in theory and through practical exercises.

Each participant was required to wear a whole set of protective apparel including glasses, shoes and mask during the practical exercises.

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