China: Leaders from Gaogang Federation Visit Taizhou Sanfu Shipyard

Leaders from Gaogang Federation of Trade Unions visited Taizhou Sanfu Ship Engineering Co, conducting activities named ”cool offer, safety offer, and education offer”. Wang Jian, Secretary of of Gaogang district party committee, Han Ya, the Vice District governor, Zhang Qin, the chief of Gaogang Federation of Trade Unions and many other leaders visited the front-line workers accompanied by Lady Qi Junhong, the president of SF Shipyard.

They gave out sunstroke prevention items to the workers like soap, shampoos, essential balms , towels etc. which makes all the front-line employees feel cool in the hot summer.

The high temperature and the capricious weather cause many troubles to shipbuilding. In order to minimize the negative influence on production triggered by high temperature and maintain the sound physical and mental health of our employees, SF has taken a series of positive and effective heat-prevention measures, including adjusting the employees’ work schedule to avoid working under high temperature, handing out sunstroke prevention items and adding more drinking water supply stations on the production site, based on the production principle of “People first”.

At the same time, with a view to ensuring safe production during summer period, the Safety Section has been strengthening production site safety management through mapping out relevant policies and measures. Since the summer began, in order to raise the employees’ safety awareness, put prevention first, reduce the safety accidents to ensure safety in summer time, the Safety Section has organized many special safety training education activities for workers from each workshop and subcontracting teams and arranged special safety knowledge test for them based on the nature of different job tasks.

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Source: sfshipyard, September 2, 2011;