APM Safety Day

The emphasis was upon the concept and practice of intervention as a proactive safety procedure to eliminate accidents for the company’s 25,000 employees worldwide.

“Specialized studies have shown that when confronted with potentially risky behavior or situations in industrial or workplace settings, personnel will intervene only 40% of the time, often hesitating because of concerns of inciting anger among co-workers, or simply because they believe their actions will not make a difference, said APM Terminals safety activist Martin Poulsen. “Those are specifically the mindsets that require change. We want everyone to know that they can intervene at any time, this is not just management’s role or responsibility. Safety has no hierarchy, and all staff should feel mandated to intervene, even when senior colleagues are involved, to remove the risk of severe, or indeed any, accidents.”