The Achievement of Safety Management in Arab Potash Company

Abstract

The Arab Potash Company (APC) is one of the largest companies in Jordan. This company is suffering from lost time injury and accidents due to a lot of different accidents and several hazards associated with complicated location of the work environment. This work discusses the main parameters representing the risk and safety measures in this company, such as accident frequency, severity indictor (FSI), accident frequency rate (AFR) and accident severity rate (ASR), since 1998 to December 2014. The AFR, ASR and FSI have dropped from 5.51, 679 and 0.78 to 0.18, 6.5 and 0.3, respectively. The decline in these factors may be considered satisfactory since 2004 due to commitment and implementing of new and different safety polices procedures and issues of international safety standards (OHSAS-18001 2007) by the new leaderships of this company. The results have shown that the company has achieved four million working hours with negligible lost time injury in 2012 and reaches the same achievement in 2013 and up to December 2014.

Keywords: Accident severity, safety polices, leaderships, lost time injury, accidents.