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HEALTH AND SAFETY
Health and safety
DE DIETRICH
PROCESS SYSTEMS
AMS certification awarded to
competence centre for glass
equipment and process systems
he Occupational Safety
and Health Management
TSystem of De Dietrich
Process Systems GmbH was
audited by the German Social
Accident Insurance Institution
VBG, and in February 2017
was certified as compliant with
‘AMS- Arbeitsschutz mit System’
for the first time. On 17 March
2017, Georg Kämer, Prevention
Manager at VBG Mainz, present-
ed the certificate to Dr. Michael
Blumbach, Director of Glass
Products at De Dietrich Process
Systems.
The chemical plant equipment
manufacturer adopted a quick
method of hazard assessment
in its factory. When necessary,
employees verify with the aid of a
check-list shortly before starting
work, that the workplace meets
all the occupational safety crite-
ria. Cases of near accident are
also analysed and discussed in an
Occupational Safety Committee.
The goal is to eliminate any
potential danger points.
“We want to continuously
improve occupational safety in
a structured and sustained man-
ner, and reduce the number of Production of the biggest glass
work-related accidents and near bottles in the world at De Dietrich
accidents,” declared Dr. Michael Process System in Mainz
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