Safety, a priority for all
Sequana constantly strives to improve its safety performance in its production and distribution activities by investing in the very safest equipment as well as in staff training and awareness operations.
The safety policy is one of the keystones of Sequana’s CSR policy. It is based on common guidelines applied to the entire Group, and takes the form of practical initiatives which involve the staff in the improvement of their working environment.
Arjowiggins: making paper safely
At Arjowiggins, the ‘Making Paper Safely’ scheme, launched in 2009 for a period of 5 years, is based on two major principles: the pre-eminence of the physical safety and health of staff throughout the production cycle and the necessity to work simultaneously on safe conduct and the protection of equipment. For example, in 2010, the French factory of Palalda, which specialises in the manufacture of paper for the medical sector, led a staff awareness scheme focusing on a safety mechanism installed on a papermaking machine.
Antalis: distributing safely
Antalis invests strongly in safety training and awareness schemes for its teams. In 2010, safety seminars created with the company’s insurers were organised in the different countries. They focused on the protection of goods and persons, covering topics specific to the region concerned, and brought together operational managers, dedicated safety coordinators, and maintenance technicians from the various sites in a given country or region.
Finally the countries regularly lead their own initiatives to improve their safety performances. For example, in Spain, as well as the creation of ‘safety corners’ in all the warehouses in 2010, a project concerning safe driving of forklift trucks led to the definition of a usage standard (a 1-metre radius ‘safety circle’ around forklift trucks at all times).





