In summer 2007 DuPont and Kazakhstan coal mining company Mittal Steel Temirtau (Karaganda) launched joint project aiming to form the foundations of labor safety standards understanding. «Mittal Steel» is one of the world’s major steel producers. In Kazakhstan it owns 8 mines, which provide its steel production facilities with coal. In general in the coal department of Mittal Steel Temirtau 24 500 people are employed.

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In the late July the project of work safety management system project was officially launched. From DuPont side Trevor Hughes, operations manager for Eastern Europe, DuPont safety Resources and Ilia Diomidov, project manager, DuPont Safety Resources, as well as 2 consultants working on rotational basis, are involved in the project.  The kick-off meeting was followed by a series of seminars, in which the majority of the Mittal Steel Company top managers took part. The first 4 months of cooperation refer to the development of understanding by the top managers of the importance of safety issues.  Upon the completion of the first stage Mittal Steel Temirtau is supposed to take the decision on the continuation of cooperation for 20 forthcoming months. At the second stage the full scale deployment of the world standard safety management system on the client’s works is supposed to take place. The project of cooperation assumes the work with the enterprise employees at all levels – from top managers to mine workers.

According to the words of the Mittal Steel Temirtau coal department executive director Murat Perzadaev, the administration set an ambitious task for itself – to gradually attend the goal of 0 injuries at its coal mining enterprises and the program, realized jointly with DuPont, will help to attain this goal.