Few if any companies can compete with Sandvik s products They are one of the leading manufacturers in Europe and the 10th largest employer among Scandinavian countries with more than 47 000 people representing Sandvik in 130 countries What is also impressive about Sandvik today is its sharp new perspective on manag ing risk and on safety in general In 2011 just shy of the company s 150th anniversary the company set out to redefine itself They focused on the future on the next 150 years and on developing the guidelines for a major strategy shift Many of their goals revolved around property loss prevention In the first decade of the 2000s Sand vik had taken some losses Not surprisingly the incidents disrupted production They were harmful to Sandvik s reputation and unacceptable to management That created a brief period of instability which in turn set in motion a journey toward more conscien tious loss prevention ideals We were in a place where we thought it was time to set some new core values and new direction for the company says Jonas Gustavsson president for the Sandvik Machining Solutions SMS business area One of the core values that we actually kept from the old ones is called fair play and in fair play you invest a lot in the safety culture In that regard we wanted to set the industry standard The company s group risk management function also began to develop a Sandvik specific property loss prevention program This program was created with a focus on business continuity to help the company keep its promise of delivering to customers Group risk management further developed the Sand vik property loss prevention standard together with FM Global This is the foundation of all Sandvik risk control efforts moving forward This is true of SMS in this case but also across the other aforementioned four busi ness areas within the company Emelie Ekholm group risk manager and Henrik Paajarvi property insurance and loss prevention manager spearheaded Sandvik s new approach to loss prevention We thought it was very important based on our recent history to enforce a safety first culture beginning in 2011 says Paajarvi Today we strictly enforce it mainly to pro tect Sandvik personnel and everyone going into a Sandvik facility We have a strong belief in this and everyone is aware of the safety culture If insurance is the financial protection of a risk loss prevention and loss mitigation are the operational protection Driving loss prevention is an important element in the scope of Sandvik s group risk management arm We have broadened the risk manage ment function from the more traditional risk management model says Ekholm In the past we have focused on tailoring the insurance terms and insurance coverage for different Sandvik groups Now we have a EMELIE EKHOLM Group Risk Manager Sandvik One of the most impo rtant dutie s we have is to keep up to speed with business k nowledge Our job is to h ave that u nderstandi ng so that we can provid e adequate insurance coverage We make sure we know th e risk expo sures uniqu e to our five bu siness area s and that our covera ge is tailored for each ISSUE 1 2015 Reason 33

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