OREANDA-NEWS. February 08, 2011. Alexander Kuznetsov was appointed to the position of Chief H&S and Environment Officer of OJSC “ArcelorMittal Kryviy Rih”.

Alexander Kuznetsov is an experienced specialist on Health and Safety, occupational and fire safety, environment and civil protection. Before Alexander Kuznetsov held a position of Deputy CEO for occupational safety of OJSC “Mondi Syktyvkar”, one of the greatest manufacturer of the Russian pulp and paper industry. He was in charge of management and planning of company’s work, implementation of corporate requirements and standards with regards to Safety and Occupational Health and development of a proactive approach to work safety.

Holding the leading positions for occupational safety at OJSC “Mondi Syktyvkar” for 8 years, Mr. Kuznetsov’s skills included reduction on work related injuries from 159 to 13 at OJSC “Mondi Syktyvkar”, reduction of sickness from 6 to 2,6, reduction of number of fires from 14 to 0. Alexander Kuznetsov participated in implementation of work safety standards ISO9001, ISO14001 and managed implementation of OHSAS18001 at the company and also organized the joint preventive work on reduction of injuries at contracting agencies.

Rinat Starkov, CEO, OJSC “ArcelorMittal Kryviy Rih”: "I know Alexander Kuznetsov as a professional, I personally saw the results of his work at OJSC “Mondi Syktyvkar”. As H&S issues are the priority ones at OJSC “ArcelorMittal Kryviy Rih” and we were set a task by ArcelorMittal to achieve zero rate of fatalities at the workplace, the experience of Alexander Kuznetsov is very valuable for us. We will have to do a lot to reorganize production processes and to implement control and self-control mechanisms which would allow minimizing the risks of injury. In this sense, good practices, gained by Alexander Kuznetsov while working at “Mondi Syktyvkar”, will be very helpful to us".

Holding a new position, Alexander Kuznetsov will be in charge of not only H&S issues, but ecology and environment protection issues at OJSC “ArcelorMittal Kryviy Rih” .

Alexander Kuznetsov graduated from Leningrad Forest and Technical Kirov Academy. He had a specialty of engineer-mechanic for timber machines and equipment. In 2005 he had the training on implementation of Health and Safety Innovations, Risk Assessment at Mondi Europe Academy (Vienne, Austria), BKM Guidance, Israel (“Proactive Approach to Safety Issues”).