Packaging Company Achieves 58% Reduction in Lost-Time Accidents with Intelex Safety Incident Software
公司规模
Large Corporate
地区
- Europe
国家
- Ireland
产品
- Intelex Safety Incident Software
技术栈
- Web-Based Platform
实施规模
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
影响指标
- Productivity Improvements
- Cost Savings
技术
- 功能应用 - 远程监控系统
适用行业
- 包装
适用功能
- 质量保证
用例
- 远程资产管理
服务
- 系统集成
- 培训
关于客户
The Smurfit Kappa Group is a world leader in the paper-based packaging industry. The company produces over 12 million tons of paper annually and operates over 300 plants and mills worldwide. Headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, The Smurfit Kappa Group employs more than 40,000 employees with operations in Europe, Latin America, Canada, Singapore, USA and South Africa. The products manufactured by the company include containerboard, corrugated containers, boxboard, solidboard, graphicboard, and other paper-based packaging products.
挑战
The Smurfit Kappa Group, a global leader in the paper-based packaging industry, was facing a challenge with its safety incident tracking system. The company operates dozens of manufacturing sites across the UK, each using their own variation of a paper-based safety incident tracking system. This disjointed approach was inefficient and inconsistent. The company wanted to implement a web-based, user-friendly software system to track and manage their safety incidents consistently across their UK manufacturing sites. The system needed to be accessible to all employees at each site and allow them to easily record incidents, hazards and near-misses. Management also required monthly reports from each site containing metrics such as Days Since Lost Time Injury and Accident Frequency and Severity Rates.
解决方案
The Smurfit Kappa Group implemented the Intelex Safety Incidents Reporting application, which operates on a web-based platform. This provided a centralized reporting system, accessible via the web by any employee at any location. Employee IDs were imported into the system and Smurfit Kappa’s paper incident form was translated into an easy-to-complete digital version. A simple user interface was configured so that upon logging in, users are presented with the incident form, ready to be completed and submitted. An initial Intelex training session for Safety and Environmental Managers from each geographic location was conducted, after which they were able to train the users at their respected locations. As user confidence has grown more modules are set to be launched to improve other aspects of the company and further drive forward continual improvement.
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