Metinvest took part in the International Conference on Labor Protection and Environment

Today in Donetsk the second international conference on industrial safety, labor protection, health and the environment "Safe production = Successful Business" has opened its doors. The purpose of the conference is the exchange of experience and the implementation of modern approaches in the designated issues in production enterprises. The conference will take place two days from November 29 to 30.

"About 300 participants from more than 90 companies from different countries came to our conference - from Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Kazakhstan, England, from the countries of Eastern and Central Europe. Many representatives of state authorities and leading world experts have responded to an invitation to the conference. I am sure that we are not competitors in matters of labor protection and environmental matters, we can not have secrets in these matters,", - said the General Director of Metinvest Holding LLC Igor Swed, opening the international conference.

At the same time, he noted that today's motto of the conference: “Safe production = Successful Business” is very relevant for Metinvest.

“For our company, for Metinvest, safe working conditions and minimizing the negative impact on the environment, this is the basis for the successful and sustainable development of our business. This is not even an element of our professionalism - this is the work of our honor, this is our holy duty to create and do everything possible to create safe working conditions,” Igor Swedh emphasized.

According to him, today the achievement of zero injuries in work is the ideology of business.

“It is clear that we have not yet reached our ideal, but we have done a lot of work, although the main work is still ahead. In our company, the issue of life, health and ecology has the highest priority when making decisions and are the main corporate values,” summed up Igor Swed, completing his speech at the conference in Donetsk, adding that there is an opportunity to exchange knowledge and experience, the best, the best Practices will allow the company to bring the company to new levels of work.

The head of the State Service of Mining and Industrial Safety (Gosgorpromnemnadzor) Alexander Khokhotov highly appreciated the initiative to hold such conferences.

"Last year, there were 685 deaths in production, this year is 60 less. But in order to prevent them, prevention is needed, and it is very good that such conferences are held," said Alexander Khokhotov.

The labor experts who took part in the conference shared labor protection experts accumulated over many years of work. In particular, the director of the group for labor protection, security industry and ecology at Celsa Group, Christina San Agapito said that communication with