Kartonsan and human resources

To ensure ongoing occupational safety, factories' physical and technical equipment and conditions are checked regularly. Monitoring and feedback systems are developed so any potential problems can be quickly identified and dealt with effectively.

Occupational health and safety at Kartondan

Employees' health and safety is an integral part of Kartonsan's human resources policy. The Company is mindful of the need to full comply with the requirements of occupatioanl health and safety legislation and regulations, as they are applicable in Turkey at all of its headquarters and factory premises. In addition, Kartonsan follows contemporary occupatioanl health and safety applications being carried out throughout the world and puts innovative applications in practice. The Human Resources and Quality Systems departments at Kartonsan are responsible for occupational health and safety matters.

To ensure ongoing occupational safety, factories' physical and technical equipment and conditions are checked regularly. Monitoring and feedback systems are developed, so any potential problems can be quickly identified and dealt with effectively.

Kartonsan's Occupational Health and Safety Committee is engaged in an ongoing and effective effor to ensure that corrective and preventive measures are taken to reduce work-related accidents and illnesses through training, improvements, and employee health screenings. As part occupational health and safety practices, risk evaluations were reevaluated on a process and location basis throughout 2012, while renewal activities were held and training related to this issue was organized for employees. there were no loss of life at any of Kartonsan's premises in 2012, but there were some minor lacerations in work related accidents, and necessary precautions and remedial actions were subsequently taken.

Kartonsan's occupational safety goal is to achieve and maintain a zero accident rate at its workplaces.

Kartonsan's quality-environment-occupational health and safety policy

Seeking to maintain its stature as a leader in Turkey and its competitive position in world markets, Kartonsan has adopted and adheres to a policy on quality, the environment and occupational health and safety that is committed to:

• Continuously .mproving the effectiveness of its quality, environment, and occupational health and safety management systems through the use of the right human resources, appropriate technolory, and assential financial resources;
• Continuously developing its product and service quality in line with customers' wishes and expectations;
• Attaching importance to health and safety in all of its employees' activities in order to prevent work-related accidents and illnesses and to be an organization which is transparent and participatory and which learns and develops through constant training;
• Preventing environmental pollution, making effective and productive use of natural resources, using recycled inputs and manufacturing recyclabla products;
• Complying with the requirements of applicable laws and regulations and abiding by the criteria and prescriptions of ISO 9001 Quality Managementi ISO 14001 Environmental Management, and OHSAS 18001 Occupational Health & Safety Assessment system standards;
• Engaging in multilateral communication in order to ensure the ongoing confidence and satisfaction of its customers, its suppliers, its employees, its business partners, and its community.