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• Setting up the department and participating in related projects with outside organizations

In 2007, the company has set up the management committee to reduce the climate change and let the committee be responsible mainly in project management and planning for related framework. In addition, the company has also participated in projects with various departments that are responsible in promoting the reduction of Greenhouse gas emission such as;

• Project to develop greenhouse gas protocol for strategic and operational tool with Department of Industrial Works
• Energy Management System in accordance with the guideline of Department of Alternative Energy Development and Efficiency (DEDE) with King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Thonburi.
• Project to implement Life Cycle Assessment database of steel with Iron and Steel Institute of Thailand.
• Memorandum of understanding with Department of Alternative Energy Development and Efficiency for energy conservation campaign scheme Voluntary Agreement: Energy Beyond Standards.

Safety and Hygiene Implementation

Our company believes that accidents, injuries, and illness caused by working can be avoided by mutual cooperation from everyone in the organization. Safety Hygiene and Environment committee consisting of the employee representatives and company representatives, thus, has been appointed to be the mainstay for the safety and hygiene implementation, determined by department of Safety and Environment with the Safety officers, 3 professional level persons, as supporting team. Moreover, the company has implemented the training and appointed 123 Safety officers of Supervisory level and 41 Safety officers of Executive level to spread across every of the departments in the organization as a cooperating network to take care of the company’s safety and hygiene implementation, which affect to the company’s safety and hygiene management and is certified by ISO 18001 efficiently. Until today, the safety activities that have been implemented are as follows;

• 1) To review the risk and danger assessment, including initiating and reviewing the procedures and analysis of the safety in works of all departments, along with setting up the control standard.
• 2) To improve safety standard and hygiene during work.
• 3) To improve the emergency plan, evacuation plan and emergency simulation, and to inspect the readiness of tools and practice Emergency Preparedness and response in sub-areas and annual practice.
• 4) To improve the fire extinguishing system in plant and to inspect and prepare tools for phase of plant expansion to be in line with compliance and concerned standard.
• 5) To appoint safety committee to take responsibility of risk areas for fire.
• 6) To continuously inspect and assess the safety within the plant, including places, tools and work instruction by project of Safety Patrol.
• 7) To communicate safety by initiating electronic news letters, safety lessons, and safety news to all employees and all parties concerned, both inside and outside of the plant.
• 8) To hold an exhibition, seminar, safety and hygiene quizzing competition, and SHE (Safety Hygiene and Environment) Week for staffs and the interested public, in order to encourage all parties to realize the importance of SHE implementation.

Our Responsibility to the Community and Society

For so many years, Thai Cold Rolled Steel Sheet has always been running the business with one belief; that to drive the organization to a sustainable and sturdy achievement does not only require the intention to initiate the excellent performance, but also, simultaneously, the intention to develop and strengthen the society. Therefore, the company realizes that in every minute that counts for the business to grow, we still have the mission of improving quality of life, preserving the environment and being responsible for society as a parallel task. We regard it with high priority to cooperate in taking care of the society, to earnestly and continuously benefit the community in every dimension; education, support on career and income opportunity, support on quality of hygiene and cultures, development on the quality of life, as well as environment restoration. That being said, in 2012 the company has done the following activities;

• Our intention to develop the education

Education is one of the most important factors to the national human resources development. The company is well aware of this truth and has envisioned that a complete education can only be achieved through efficient education system and all-round educational readiness, both in material aspect such as school, educational and teaching utilities and in personnel aspect such as fully capable teachers and educational human resources. If all these requirements are met, we will be able to nurture quality students, who will then certainly grow up into a key resource in developing the prosperity of community and nation in the future. The company, therefore, cooperates with government departments such as Education Office of Prachuap Khiri Khan and government officials to initiate or participate in educational activities to encourage and support the educational development such as follows;

• Cooperation to create career stability and increase incomes

The strength of society is based on a good livelihood and the peacefulness mutually shared by all of the people living together in the same community, as well as the ability of the community members to generate sufficient incomes to be self-reliant and support each other. Therefore, the company recognizes the vitality of career opportunity, improvement of the living standard of each family in the community, as well as the promotion of knowledge and skills on commodity production to increase incomes margins, especially for agricultural ways of life and career. Besides the supports we have given for career improvement, the company also promotes environment friendly agriculture to maintain ecological balance and, as a related activity, also supports local productivity by cooperating with community offices and local agricultural authorities. The activities in the past years were as follows;

• Project of mobile community products
• Project to create careers for community
• Training of community product improvement
• Improvement of career knowledge; Fertilizer Bank
• Project of Garbage Bank
• Setting up the community congress
• Project of fish farming

• Promoting health and sanitation and cultural retention

A part of the drive to the improvement of society comes from healthiness of community members. The company prioritizes the organizing of activities and educating community members on health care for different ranges of age. We also support the retaining of good cultures, both in religion and traditional customs, which is yet another fundamental for long-lasting strength and peacefulness of the society. In the past year, the company had held the activities in health and cultures as follows;

• Bangsaphan Car Free Day
• Supported the sports for students in Bangsaphan
• Thailand Iron Man Tri marathon
• Iron Man Mini marathon for a donation to disability club
• Project of Health Care for people from different ages
• Blood Donation to Thai Red Cross
• Religious activities such as candle procession on the occasion of Buddhist Lent

• Preserving and restoring the environmental resources

Well realizing the relationship between life and the nature, one of the company’s most important missions is to run the business with respect and responsibility to the nature and environment. Hence, the company takes into consideration to control the environment system in production process to the quality standard, in order to minimize any effect to the environment as best as possible. Additionally, we emphasize on continuously creating the consciousness of preserving and restoring the environment and the community’s natural resources by cooperating and participating with SSI group, government offices and other companies as well as people from the community in the following activities;