Health and safety

Every day in all SCHWENK Latvija locations we apply the Mission Zero concept – to spend a working day free of accidents and make sure all employees return home to their families safe and sound.

Company takes care of safe working conditions, personal protection equipment depending on the work specifics, education and training of employees and contractors. On their turn, every employee is aware – safety is the priority of SCHWENK Latvija and everyone is responsible for that with their actions. Employees are actively involved in the improving of work environment – they identify potential risk factors in everyday life and initiate activities for preventing them. Safety violations and endangering others is the most serious violation of the internal regulations of SCHWENK Latvija.

We focus a lot of attention also on the work of contractors and their employees. SCHWENK Latvija performs work safety briefings and supervises cooperation in all their stages. We care for the compliance with labour safety requirements and use of personal protection equipment. Labour safety responsibilities and duties are stipulated in agreements with contractors, thus we are able to immediately without compromises react to any breaches of work safety, discontinue unsafe and dangerous actions or activities.

Visiting any of our plants, also guests have to adhere to safety and internal regulations.

SCHWENK Latvija plant in Brocēni is the only cement producing plant in Latvia. We are delighted to welcome visitors who want to know more about this complex process. Due to the workload of the plant and continuous operations, we can allocate limited time to excursions. Due to safety preconditions all guests have to observe regulations related to visits to plant and other objects, use personal protection equipment. You can be in the territory of SCHWENK Latvia plants only under supervision of the responsible employee. All visits should be arranged in advance.