Preserving and improving the safety and health at work: Case of Hamma Bouziane cement plant (Algeria)

Safety and health at work (SHW) has become a public health priority in industrialized countries and a primary concern in the context of human resource management and in particular high risk-industries. Thus, developing a strong safety culture (SC) would be a mean to reduce the number of adverse events related to various activities in the company. Now, the laws and customs interact: when a people have good manners, laws become simple. Unfortunately, habits cannot be modified by setting example. Therefore, regardless of the size and activity of the entity, health and safety at work must be at the heart of its daily management. In the absence of effective management of health and safety at work, it is the entire company that is mismanaged. On the whole, risk management can be defined as a process of prevention and protection allowing a company or an entity, placed in a competitive context, to take all necessary decisions in order to optimize its activity, without affecting its customers as well as the environment. This work is an opportunity to initiate a global approach to prevention in cement plants whose purpose is to improve working conditions by technical, organizational and human solutions to improve the health and safety of employees while engaging in a process of continuous improvement.