SMS’ U.K. Operation Achieves BS OHSAS Standards

Sims Metal Management (SMS) announces that its shredder and recycling facility in Avonmouth, U.K., has achieved recommendation for registration to the health and safety management system standard BS OHSAS 18001:2007 for the scope of the processing and recovery of ferrous and non-ferrous metals.

Certification to the standard was recommended after the site successfully demonstrated to health and safety inspectors that their standards of health and safety meet the expectations required to receive the certification.

Richard Frampton, SMM’s General Manager for the South West, says, “We are very proud to be recommended for this certification. The award reflects the considerable efforts made by Stuart Wilcox and his team at Avonmouth over the last few months to further improve our already very high safety standards. Many thanks to our Regional Health and Safety Advisor, Paul Meehan and systems specialist Steve Powell whose input was invaluable in achieving this most positive result.”

Sims Metal Management now holds BS OHSAS 18001 at eight sites in the UK, and the company is working to achieve certification at its U.K. facilities in Newport and Nottingham.