Safety plays a strategic role in Santos Brasil´s operations

Since it began operating in the country 19 years ago, Santos Brasil has adopted strict safety practices and procedures similar to those currently implemented in the major container-handling terminals around the world. This matter even plays a strategic role in the company, as it is one of the priority items in its Sustainability Policy, in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN). The Company is a benchmark in port safety and addresses it preventively, while also investing in programs and training to promote excellence with safety in its services.

"For us, safety is directly linked to ensuring integrity to everybody involved in our operations, to our customers´ trust that their cargo will reach the destination without failure or damage, and to the quality that only services provided safely across all of its processes can offer", says the Santos Brasil Executive Director of Port Operations and Logistics Ricardo Molitzas.

Santos Brasil also utilizes Sparc, the latest container control software on the market, a customized special cargo segregation service plan, emergency trucks, barrier containers, and operation reports that can be checked in real-time from anywhere in the company, as well as other tools that ensure operation continuity in case of any adverse event.

The measures adopted by the Company include:

Holding week-long safety, health and environment seminars every three months, for disseminating the concepts across the company;

Training, inspection, and constant awareness campaigns across the company;

Daily dialogues and weekly alerts on the topic at shift start for Tecon Santos employees;

Five civilian firefighters and five health professionals (three doctors, a nurse and five nursing technicians) working around the terminal, taking turns 24 hours a day, seven days a week;

Respiratory protective equipment and clothing for approaching fire in events involving smoke and chemicals;

228 trained fire brigade members;

Emergency trucks for segregating cargo in case of incidents;

Support vehicles with hoses, nozzles, respiratory protective equipment, traffic cones and striped tape, as well as two emergency containers;

Emergency Response Plan for all types of cargo;

Sparc cargo control system, the most advanced software in the port services market, which directs container distribution, segregating special cargo;

Cage container for segregating special cargo and rescuing persons in high places;

Wind monitoring program;

OHSAS Certification - Occupational Health and Safety Management.