Safety Walk

With the aim of improving safety in our day-to-day work, Aernnova is carrying out “walks” in the Group’s industrial companies that consist of observing the actions necessary to complete daily tasks and determine ways to make work safer. These are called Safety Walks.

This is a simple but powerful method to promote continuous improvement in this area and raise awareness of the organization’s commitment to H&S, recognizing and reinforcing safe behaviors and motivating personnel to continue applying them.

It allows observing the preventive performance and identifying opportunities for improvement in safety by verifying that safety standards are met in the processes/operations of the place.

The first of these was carried out at Aernnova Évora. In this Safety Walk through the Évora factory, our CEO Ricardo Chocarro, Félix Rodriguez Cabezas (COO), Heribert Schrage (Director Aernnova Évora), João Gaspar (Head of H&S at Aernnova Évora) and Bruno Fera (Operations Director of Évora), have executed observations on preventive performance to understand how the works are being performed, encouraging the exchange of information and showing a sincere interest in the subject.

In addition, these safety walks are important because they allow managers and leaders to see what processes look like at the operational level, focusing the safety walk not only on people, but also on conditions. They help eliminate incorrect assumptions and drive change with a positive and lasting impact, helping to resolve disconnects between management’s view and the implementation of processes in operations.

Prior to the tour in Évora, Ricardo Chocarro decided on the area where the safety walk was to take place, choosing the Praetor assembly area and the parts buffer, using the Always Safe project model document as a guide for the development of the walk. It lasted approximately one hour.

Questions were raised such as collective protection appropriate to the workplace; the type of individual protection required in each area; how to manage the lay out and 5s; challenges encountered in increasing production or the relationship between quality, excellence in management and prevention culture.