POLICY
Human health is the foremost priority in all
Borusan Holding Group companies. The
success behind the Holding’s businesses
is based on the awareness that humans
are the most important asset for the
Group’s sustainability – for its capability
to proactively predict risks, and for taking
action to eliminate those risks. As one of
Turkey’s most well-established holdings,
Borusan Holding enjoys a success story.
“Once work is done, everyone heads home
to be with their loved ones” is the highlighted
message of this success story.
Borusan Holding’s OHS principles are as
follows.
• Borusan Holding complies with all
applicable laws, regulations, and national
and international standards in effect in the
locations where it operates.
• It runs activities to reach the ideal level of
“Zero Occupational Accidents,” which is its
core objective across all sectors.
• It identifies in advance potentially
hazardous situations that employees may
face, and takes measures in line with risk
levels.
• It conducts case studies with utmost
attention to occupational accidents,
illnesses, and near misses not prevented;
takes action towards certain root causes; and works to prevent the recurrence of
such events.
• It provides a safe working environment for
all employees, customers, suppliers, and
sub-contractors, and strives to introduce
the best practices in the sector.
• It continuously conducts inspections on
systems installed and activities performed,
and keeps the reports available for access
and audit by relevant parties.
• It includes employees in all aspects of
occupational health and safety in their
respective fields of responsibility; raises
their awareness of their rights, roles, and
responsibilities; and expects them to
contribute to the development of an OHS
culture.
• It makes sure that every leader and
manager both incorporates occupational
health and safety in their methods of doing
business and owns the process.
• It identifies a management system based
on the principle of continuous development
and works towards its development.
Highlights of 2020
• A shared software program was deployed
at all Group companies within digitalization
efforts to track activities related to
Occupational Health and Safety, and all
processes started to be monitored on this
software program.
• Borusan Oto completed OHSAS 45001
migrations in all its locations and was
awarded at the International Occupational
Health and Safety Contest organized by
the British Safety Council.
• Borusan Lojistik deployed “Söz Bizde
(We Have the Floor)” as a practice to
understand employees’ opinions on
OHS-related topics firsthand and more
clearly. Interviews with employees were
initiated under this practice. In addition,
an OHS Motto Contest was organized at
the Company. The first motto adopted is
“Make your work safe, make your life safe.”
• Borusan Mannesmann launched “B’Dost,”
a Behavior-Oriented Safety Management
System, and involved all employees in
these processes. The system enabled
employees to provide feedback to one
another comfortably, and thus noticeably
eliminated unsafe behaviors.
• At Borusan Mannesmann, the app “Sağlık
Olsun (For the Sake of Health)” enables
employees to answer questions related
to possible COVID-19 symptoms and
contact tracing prior to their commute
to work and taking the shuttle. The app
also creates daily QR codes to allow
employees to enter the facility, and
seats on the shuttle busses are allocated
accordingly, while potential cases are
detected before arrival at the facility to
minimize the risk of spread. Furthermore,
employees wear smart bracelets designed
to prevent breaches of social distancing
rules and facilitate contact tracing efforts
retroactively.
• “İşte Sağlık (Health at Work)” is a mobile
app launched as part of the fight against
the COVID-19 pandemic. All points used
by employees at 170 Borusan Lojistik
locations have been identified with QR
codes. The scanned QR codes note the
current location of employees, which helps
create a map of individuals who have had
close contact with confirmed COVID-19
cases
TRAINING
• Basic Occupational Health and Safety
Courses are organized periodically in
line with the hazard levels at all Group
companies.
• Regarding Emergency Preparedness, all
members of the Emergency Team receive
theoretical and practical courses from
authorized training institutions and update
their knowledge through regular drills.
• All employees are required to complete
Orientation and Basic OHS Courses when
they are hired.
• Regarding measures taken against
COVID-19, required awareness-raising
courses were delivered by Workplace
Physicians in all Group companies, and
Online Training Programs were organized
to support employees in the areas of
Occupational Health and Safety.
• The Professional Courses that employees
are required to take in their respective
fields have been completed.
CERTIFICATIONS
• All Group companies have an OHSAS
18001 Occupational Health and Safety
Quality Management System in place. The
transition to OHSAS 45001 was initiated,
with some companies having completed
the transition and others starting with the
certification process.
• In Group companies with manufacturing
activities, the Turkish Standards Institute’s
(TSE) COVID-19 Safe Production
Certification processes were completed,
and Safe Production Certificates obtained.