Ready mixed concrete company BetonAta (Shymkent Cement) has reached its goal of one year without accidents. It celebrated with an event at the company plant attended by senior management, local authorities and key customers.

All the participants applauded BetonAta on its important success.
The chief executive officer of Shymkent Cement, Atilla Yildiz, welcomed the deputy mayor of the city of Almaty in the region of Zhetysu, the other guests and employees.
Also on behalf of the Group Safety Team, Mr Yildiz congratulated BetonAta management and staff for the improvements they had made and for their contribution to the common objective “Zero Accidents”. He presented the “1 year without accidents” certificate to the chairman of BetonAta, Serkan Kendi.
In turn, Mr Kendi congratulated his team and presented letters of thanks to the company’s Best Employees.

Country Safety Manager Olga Zhukova of Shymkent Cement illustrated the Safety Action Plan for 2010-2014.
For this, Ms Zhukova formed a BetonAta team to implement two Group standards (Group PPE Standards and the 10 Golden Rules) to improve working conditions and achieve ongoing improvements in safety results in the future.

Training on these standards has been provided for all BetonAta employees to raise their safety awareness.
During the celebrations, the participants were invited to take part in a contest, where they were given letters and asked to make a sentence from them.

The winning sentence was “Your nearest and dearest are waiting for you! Work safely!”
The sentence was judged the best slogan of Shymkent Cement during World Safety Day on April 28, 2010.

Closing the celebrations, Atilla Yildiz said he would continue to support safety training and the introduction of the Italcementi “Zero Accidents” project in the Shymkent Cement plant.