Metalogalva maintains a Safety Management System in operation, having a Department of Health and Safety, composed of a Board, the Occupational Health and Safety Commission, which operates in accordance with the legislation in force.

The company carries out a systematic identification, evaluation and enhancement of occupational risks associated with its activity, which are reviewed whenever there is a change of layout, machinery or type of activity.

The workers have at their disposal the personal protective equipment appropriate to the risk that they will be exposed, as well as showers and eyewash emergency in locations previously studied.

The company is equipped with various equipment for collective protection (and environmental), in places where they are advisable, particularly in the areas of metal work and welding, thermal cutting, galvanizing and painting.


Metalwork and Welding

System Vacuum aspiration / collection and filtration of dust and steel filings generated in these sectors of the company, allowing the cleanup by vacuuming the floor of the workspace.


Thermal Cut

Capture and filtering fume / oxides resulting from thermal cutting of sheet parts, including sheet metal cutting by plasma or oxyfuel.

Galvanization

Capture and wash, scrub, steam acids in pickling jars;

Capture and filtering, with a bag filter, fumes in the tank of zinc.

Painting

Two paint ovens controlled environment, capture and filtration of gases (aerosols, VOC's).

As prevention and protection against risk of fire company has a network of fire extinguishing carefully defined, and the type of extinguisher defined according to the risk / type of fuel products in the property / radius of action.

It also has routes and emergency exits properly marked and defined according to specific legislation. Each year, assessments are the working conditions are reviewed where the values of indoor air quality, noise, thermal environment and illuminance produced by the company with the aim of providing the best possible working conditions for the work of the company.