Safety always comes first at Vestas, and we are target-orientated and structured in our work to continually improve safety and reduce the number of industrial injuries. Management therefore has zero tolerance for actions and decisions that may undermine safety to even the slightest extent. An uncompromising stance that builds naturally on Vestas’ core values and mission.
Responsibility for safety
Working with wind turbines involves a number of risks. Heavy components, great heights, difficult weather conditions and demanding work processes are examples of factors that not only make demands upon the employees’ experience, but also upon their sense of responsibility – and common sense.
At Vestas the responsibility for safety always begins with management, but the individual employee shoulders a great deal of responsibility, too. If care is not taken during all work processes, regardless of whether it is related to the production at a factory or during a service inspection 70 meters up in the air on an offshore wind turbine, unnecessary risks can easily arise.
Throughout the entire process, from development to installation and the servicing of wind turbines, Vestas’ works consciously and systematically with safety – for example by using occupational health & safety tools and the OHSAS 18001 certification.
Reduction of the accident rate
Vestas operates with an attainable objective of reducing the incidence of industrial injuries to a maximum of 15 by the end of 2008. The incidence of industrial injuries at Vestas for 2007 was 31.6. The long-term objective is an incidence of injuries of 5 by 2012, whilst the ultimate objective is to avoid industrial injuries altogether in line with our mission statement, “At Vestas, failure is not an option.”
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Vestas’ work with OHSAS 18001
Our mission: Failure is not an option
Our vision: Wind, Oil and Gas