Metinvest Integrated Iron Ore, like all of the company’s Ukrainian enterprises, continues to train its personnel on how to act during potential threats posed by hostilities. At the end of the year, a training was conducted in the Networks and Substations Shop (NSS) of Northern Iron Ore. According to the scenario, the participants had to eliminate the consequences of an enemy drone attack that caused power outages at the facilities, an employee injury, and smoke.
A total of thirty employees took part in the event – workers of the NSS, including members of the first‑aid and fire‑response teams, emergency services (the in‑house fire department, an ambulance crew, and a security holding), as well as the dispatcher, operators, managers, and employees of adjacent shops.
According to the prepared scenario, during the plant’s operation a notification about an air raid alert was received. All employees moved to the shelter along the designated routes. The fall of UAV debris on the territory of the Networks and Substations Shop caused a power outage of the power transformer supplying the adjacent structural units. A shop employee who did not manage to reach a safe place was also wounded. Smoke appeared near the entrance gate, and not far from the power transformer, according to the scenario, a drone component was found.
After the air‑raid alert was cancelled, the employees began to carry out the established procedure for eliminating the consequences of emergencies related to hostilities. Before the ambulance crew arrived, the medical team provided first aid to the injured employee, who had sustained a wound to his left limb: a tourniquet was applied to stop the bleeding. And the members of the shop’s fire‑response team extinguished the fire using primary firefighting equipment.
The management and representatives of the emergency response headquarters gave a positive assessment of the personnel’s actions during the training: In particular, they noted the correct classification of the incident, the prompt development and adoption of managerial decisions and the control over their implementation, the quick arrival of the fire crew, medical personnel, and the plant’s security service, and so on.
"Under conditions as close to real as possible, we systematically conduct comprehensive training sessions where employees practice the skills needed to eliminate the consequences of hostilities," said Yurii ROVINSKYI, HSE Director of Metinvest Iron Ore. "The training reveals our vulnerable points in the safety system – where additional measures or supporting efforts are needed. In the circumstances of the country being at war, we must be ready to ensure people’s safety and protect the equipment."
As a result of the exercise, experts assessed the overall readiness to respond to a military‑related emergency at 98%.
