Health, Safety and Environment
Health, Safety and Environment
Adopting the main principle of making use of the expertise and the knowledge it has accumulated for meeting the needs of the society, its customers and employees; Toros Tarım runs its operations while showing consideration to the concept of protecting the environment and human life.
The company considers safety, environmental impact and quality standards in all aspects of its activities, from production to distribution and to application for its employees, customers and the society it belongs to. The aim here is to reach sustainable quality and customer satisfaction through an effective and reliable production system.
Subjects of safety, health and environment are the topics not only the employees follow but also the executive management meticulously consider and monitor.
Occupational Health and Safety
Everybody has the right to work in a healthy and safe environment…
As a company always setting “being a leader and best in its field” as a target, Toros, which adopted the principle of reaching impeccability in occupational health and safety issues, aims having safe, sound, secure and healthy environment for its employees.
Imposing working with zero accidents principle at the workplace, it adopts the idea that all vocational accidents, injuries, safety and environmental breaches can be avoided. The company carries out all the training, risk analyses and emergency action plans determined by laws duly and in due time, as required by regulations for safety procedures in the workplaces. In cases of near misses, necessary inspections are conducted, reports are made and suitable corrections are carried out.
Toros Tarım adopts the HSE principles of IFA (International Fertilizer Assosiation) and applies the standards mentioned in “Work Safety Handbook”.
Environment
Toros Tarım makes all attempts to fulfill its own responsibilities in protecting the environment. While trying to support the nutritional requirements of the population by means of production of fertilizers on one hand, Toros targets to form this delicate balance by minimizing the harm given to the environment. Apart from practicing the liabilities brought forward by laws for the purpose of saving the shores where the production plants are located, Toros is meticulously carrying out its activities towards protecting the water resources and nearby ecosystems. In Toros Tarım, all processes are monitored and the opportunities for corrections are always sought.
The environment issue is observed with great sensibility, with all its technological, economic and legislative aspects in Toros Tarım Mersin Production Plant. Priority is given to the investments with regard to environment. Within this scope, Toros Tarım has been the first in Turkey in using the catalytic reduction system that reduces the NOX emissions in the exhaust gases that is released to atmosphere through nitric acid unit smokestacks.
Certification
Toros Agri Industry and Trade Co., Inc quality, environment and occupational health and safety management systems have been certified by the international inspection, verification and certification company SGS (Societe Generale de Surveillance) as a result of its activities in the fields of quality, environment and work safety that are in compliance with international standards. Thus, Toros Tarım proves that it is practicing its performance in the fields of quality, environment and work safety in compliance with international standards and handles all the possible risks in the fields of work safety and environment with great responsibility.
Toros Tarım has been the first company in the agricultural sector to obtain all three of ISO 9001: 2000 Quality Management, ISO 14001: 2004 Environmental Management and OHSAS 18001:1999 Occupational Safety Management Certificates for the quality, environment and occupational safety management systems in Ceyhan management and has been a leader in this field, as well.
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