Cosentino Garners Spanish Safety Award

CANTORIA, Spain – Cosentino Group won recognition March 22 as one of the prizewinning companies at the third edition of Mutua Universal’s Innovation and Health Awards in Madrid.

Click photo to enlargeThe insurance company, partner of the Spanish Social Security system, organizes these awards to recognize the work of companies using innovative projects to demonstrate a high level of commitment to the development and promotion of safe, healthy workplaces.

Cosentino was a finalist in the Large Companies category for its leadership program of “Safety by Routines, Leading by Example” that seeks to integrate health and safety through a series of routines reported through an app (Gensuite) that allows activities to be scheduled, reported and monitored.

The program is a working example of the digitalization process and use of new technologies at Cosentino, which strengthens the culture of accident prevention and reinforces leadership in health and safety at all levels.

At the awards event, held at the Casino de Madrid, Jose Luis Calleja, commercial director of Cosentino Madrid, represented the company at the event and received the award from Carmen López Hidalgo, provincial director of Madrid INSS, and Miriam Rabaneda, planning and research director of Health Office of Madrid Community.

Carmen Casero, general director of the Ministry of Employment for Freelance Work and Social Responsibility of Companies, and Dr. Rafael Matesanz, founder of the National Transplants Organization, also attended the event.

Cosentino also won recognition from Mutua Universal last year for its “Development, Sustainability and Networks” project, a training program that shares knowledge along the value chain about the appropriate handling and processing of quartz surfaces and other engineered-stone surfaces, with a particular emphasis on preventing exposure to silica dust.

This program is still active and will enter a new stage across Spain in 2018 with support from various institutions.

The Cosentino Group commitment to accident prevention and occupational safety is reflected in the company’s pace of investment, which allocates a certain percentage of profits in advance each year to develop and lead active policies in this area.

In the last five years alone, Cosentino has invested €26.5 million in projects related to occupational health and safety, mainly in measures implemented at its production and processing facilities in Spain, Brazil and the United States. This figure raises the company’s investment in health and safety over the last two decades to €100 million.

Beyond the company’s own facilities, Cosentino is also turning this investment into extensive, wide-ranging informational and continuous training programs directed at customers, suppliers and partners, with initiatives such as the Cosentino Aulas for stonemasons.

“This new award is a stimulus that will help us improve our occupational health and safety policies, which are a fundamental pillar of the company’s activity,” said Esther Romero, Cosentino Group Health and Safety Director. “The practical case given an award this year exemplifies digital progress and growing modernization, both of the company in general and the area I manage.

“In any case, it is just one of many advanced avenues of development that we currently have under y, such as the continuous improvement of facilities and equipment and permanent training to reinforce safe behavior. And all of this always has the ultimate aim of involving the entire sector, transmitting knowledge and looking for the common good of our value chain.”

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