SIPAT Furlan expands accident prevention and ESG pillars

Máquinas Furlan held the Internal Week for the Prevention of Accidents at Work (SIPAT/2023). The event featured 17 lectures, with a total of almost a thousand participations among the company's employees.

Prevention of workplace accidents and the dissemination of ESG pillars in the company marked the event, whose slogan was “30th SIPAT Management 2023: tomorrow is the reward for safe work done today”. The lectures and practices were directed towards the theme “SIPAT Verde”, which is the color present in the visual identity of the Internal Accident Prevention Committee (CIPA).

The topics chosen were related to the employees' daily lives in both professional and personal areas. The expansion of messages related to the environment and worker safety also marked the program.

In total, there were 994 participants over the course of five days, from October 16 to 20. There were 17 lectures, with an average duration of one hour. The lectures are also available online, so that they can be viewed or re-watched by employees.

In a message, Furlan CEO addresses health and safety

The CEO of Máquinas Furlan, Valter Furlan, gave the opening message of the SIPAT, entitled “Health and safety: more than a wish for the future, a purpose for the present”. For Valter, “prudence makes us choose this path, merging it with health and safety; these are compounds that the Creator has abundantly placed at our disposal”.

According to Valter, “these compounds are based on our daily choices. By closely monitoring our health, practicing sports, eating well, avoiding excesses and addictions, valuing rest, respecting and protecting love. By making our family a small church, cultivating peace, dialogue and example.”

The same compounds, says the CEO, “are present in our work, in the PPE that protects us, in the rules for using equipment, in the attention to critical points in the environment, in the respect and care for those who are by our side in the search for our daily bread and in the gratitude for the work”.

The message was accompanied by an invitation from the CEO. “I extend an invitation, on my behalf and on behalf of Máquinas Furlan, to build a future focused on physical, mental and spiritual health, as well as on personal and professional relationships. More than a wish, this is a purpose and a commitment that bears my signature and for which I would also like to count on yours,” he told employees.

Lectures reinforced prevention and ESG practices

Among the company's common practices, the lectures covered topics such as safe cargo handling. They also covered health issues, such as the prevention of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs). The topics were presented by experts in their respective fields, including issues such as moral and sexual harassment in the workplace.

There was still room for approaching the topics in a different way. For example, a magician shared safety practices at work.

SIPAT reinforced Máquinas Furlan's integration with ESG, an acronym that, in English, addresses concerns about environmental, social and governance issues in the generation of value for companies.

Thus, the Furlan team once again demonstrates its commitment to these issues with its customers, suppliers and partners.

The three pillars of ESG are present in the products and activities. One of the leaders in the mining equipment market, Furlan develops projects for mineral processing machines aligned with, among other items, operator safety. Reducing electricity consumption is another improvement adopted that impacts the environmental area.

With 61 years of activity, Máquinas Furlan is involved in several social responsibility actions with entities in the Limeira region (SP), where its industrial park is located.

At the end of SIPAT, the Furlan team reinforced its commitment to continue to continuously improve these issues when the event takes place in 2024.