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Messer: Marked improvement in safety at work

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Industrial gases specialist Messer is using the World Day for Safety and Health at Work on 28 April 2015 as an opportunity to publish the positive results of its company-wide safety at work campaign. At the end of 2013, owner and CEO Stefan Messer and CFO Hans-Gerd Wienands initiated an internal campaign aimed at improving safety at work, including an annual worldwide day of action. Now the gases manufacturer is taking stock: the number of industrial accidents with lost days was reduced from 36 in 2013 to 18 in 2014. The number of reportable accidents was also reduced, from 63 in 2013 to 36 in 2014. The frequency of accidents, measured by the number of work-related accidents with lost days per million working hours, went down from 3.6 in the previous year to 1.7. The accident severity rate – the number of days absent per million working hours– also dropped from 65.0 to 47.6. In 2014, the Messer Group’s frequency rate of reportable industrial accidents per million working hours was 3.5 compared with 6.3 in 2013.

Messer puts this positive result down to various measures such as safety inspections, tailor-made training programmes, risk analyses and reciprocal safety audits carried out by the locations. The accompanying communication campaign gave employees the chance to put their suggestions for improvement to the management.

“The main focus of the 2014 safety campaign was the prevention of industrial accidents caused by violation of safety guidelines, negligence or carelessness. Many accidents are a result of experience, as strange as that may sound,” says Stefan Messer.

Messer SE & Co. KGaA

The Messer Group, which was established in 1898, is the largest privately managed specialist in industrial, medical and special gases. Under the brand “Messer – Gases for Life”, the company is active in 30 countries in Europe and Asia, as well as in Peru and Algeria, with a total of more than 60 operating companies. The international activities are controlled from the Frankfurt am Main area, whilst the technical centralised functions of logistics, engineering, production and application technology are managed from Krefeld. Stefan Messer, CEO and owner of the Messer Group, works together with 5,449 employees in accordance with defined principles. These include a focus on customers and employees, responsible behaviour, corporate responsibility, excellence as well as trust and respect. In 2014 the industrial gas specialist generated consolidated turnover of €1.047 billion.

From acetylene to xenon, the Messer Group has one of the most diverse product portfolios on the market - it produces industrial gases such as oxygen, nitrogen, argon, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, helium, shielding gases for welding, specialty gases, medical gases and many different gas mixtures.

The Messer Group has state-of-the-art research and competence centers in which it develops applied technologies for the use of gases in almost every sector of industry, in food technology and environmental technology, medicine as well as research and science.

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