Various Operating Units of the CIMPOR Group are currently intensively working on adapting their occupational health & safety management systems to the requirements of the OHSAS 18001 standard, which is recognised in more than seventy countries. The certification indicates that an OU developed a detailed system to manage occupational health and safety risks and it forms, jointly with ISO 14001, the backbone of a robust and immense management system of issues related to social responsibility.

In 2008, eight of our thirty-eight operating units achieved the certification of their OH&S management systems according to the OHSAS 18001 standard, to add to the fourteen that had previously obtained it. Another six should have their management systems certified in 2009 and a further ten by the end of 2010.

The eight operating units that achieved certification of their occupational health and safety management systems in 2008 were the Alhandra, Souselas, Loulé and Sines OU’s of the Portugal BA; the Nova Santa Rita, Campo Formoso and Cezarina OU’s of the Brazil BA; and the Jbel Oust OU of the Tunisia BA.