All members as well as related organizations within the steel industry are being asked to carry out a special audit to look into the 5 main causes of serious safety incidents.
 
This safety awareness day is aligned with the World Safety Day held by the International Labour Organisation's safety day on 28 April every year.
 
Over the last five years worldsteel has carried out an analysis on safety and health practices in the steel industry and has identified the main causes of serious safety incidents.
 
The Steel Safety Day is set up to reinforce awareness of the five most common causes of safety incidents and to create a safer working environment across the entire steel industry worldwide.
 
The main causes of serious safety incidents identified are:

• Moving machinery
• Falling from heights
• Falling objects
• Gas and asphyxiation
• Overhead cranes

The aim of this audit is to raise awareness of the 5 main causes of serious incidents and to make the workplace even safer, with the ultimate target for the industry: the 'zero' goal: an injury-free, illness-free and healthy workplace.