Creativity on a shoestring
Like most locations this year, the organising team at Vanderbijlpark Works for Health and Safety Day 2009 was told not to spend any money. “And wow, did our people rise to the challenge!” says Hendie Grobbelaar, ArcelorMittal South Africa. “I could not believe my eyes when the different plants presented their activities, in technicolor, sound and animation.”
“For example, the guys at Engineering will be using a 5 kilometre per hour moving train through the Works to showcase their exhibition on various safety and health issues,” Hendie tells us. “This train will also transport some of the employees and contractors to the site where they will have a (healthy) picnic and play (health and safety related) games.”
Vanderbijlpark Works will be on their feet on the day with a Fun Walk and Relay followed by speeches, prize giving and awards for safety related achievements such as Best Contractor, Best Superintendent and Best Safety Representative.
“A sure highlight will be a combined rescue demonstration by our Protection Services and the local Town Council Rescue Services. This event will take place from the roof of our administration building and will involve our own employees as fire survivors being rescued.
Best of all, our special catchy song, written in 2008, will form the backdrop of the day. As we say in South Africa – our arrangements for H&S Day are going “sharp sharp”!
Prepare yourself for Health and Safety Day by learning the song South Africa created
4 comments
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April 27th, 2009 by Alex McClure
Being that I am an ArcelorMittal employee, it’s too bad that I am not able to listen to the “song that South Africa” created for Health and Safety Day at ArcelorMittal.
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April 29th, 2009 by Frédéric Leclercq
the “moving train” is really a good idea to bring message to the people working in the plant, It’s an innovative and probably an efficient way to promote strong messages (it reminds me the plane flying in the air with a advertising banner behind !)
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May 6th, 2009 by Patricia Fettih
I was very curious about the song. Too bad that I also was not able to listen to the self created song of South Africa.
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May 14th, 2009 by Mary Carey
We have had a few emails from people saying they could not access teh South Africa song. Actually the link is an external one. If you are having a problem, check and see if the problem is the firewall at your office. This was the case with Dofasco at any rate. If you want to access the song and still have a problem contact the ArcelorMittal editorial team and we will do what we can to get you access.
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