Occupational safety
health and environment

Helwan Fertilizer Company has adopted a new and advanced policy related to safety, protection, and sustainability by updating the company's policy, where the company is committed to managing its activities in a way that raises the health level of its employees and in a way that pays the damage to the company's employees, contractors, and visitors.

With the commitment of senior management and employees to occupational safety, health, and environmental protection, it has led to the achievement of millions of safe working hours.

"Safety First" started with us for all employees of Helwan Fertilizer Company and where the choice of safer technology for the fertilizer industry by Oda International, which ensures the safety of operations.

We believe that this is not enough, and this prompted us to complete the implementation of an effective and continuous program to improve occupational safety and health standards.

The commitment of senior management to the emergency response team has been evident by keeping pace with the rapid and continuous development of emergency equipment.

We are proud to have an effective business permit system, a state-of-the-art firefighting system, fully prepared emergency equipment, great cooperation between different departments and a constructive commitment from senior management to occupational safety and health and the ISO 45001:2018 system.

Environment

Since the beginning of the establishment of factories, Helwan Fertilizer Company has paid great attention to the environment, which was reflected in the environmental impact assessment study carried out by major consulting companies in this field, and then assigning the establishment of the factory to the German company Oda, which completed the matter with modern technology, environmentally friendly and with a low emission rate.

Helwan Fertilizer Company then launched an environmental compliance plan with the Environmental Affairs Agency as an initiative by the company to enhance its leadership in the use of environmental preservation technology, which resulted in Helwan Fertilizer Company's leadership in establishing a continuous environmental monitoring system for emissions and linking it with the national network for monitoring industrial emissions at the Environmental Affairs Agency.

Helwan Fertilizer Company was on a date with the completion of the integrated environmental monitoring system by purchasing the latest boiler emission monitoring systems and the first axis to link them directly with the national network for monitoring industrial emissions with the Environmental Affairs Agency, and as a result, Helwan Fertilizer Company will be in direct contact with its chimneys with the Environmental Affairs Agency.

Helwan Fertilizers Company also has its distinguished programs in the management of non-hazardous solid waste, hazardous industrial waste, and medical waste, which significantly demonstrates the hierarchy of waste management methodology.

The company did not stop at this limit of preserving the environment but extended to constructive partnerships with government bodies and institutes in the fields of environmental monitoring and calibrations, as well as studied partnerships with accredited companies in the fields of waste recycling and final and environmentally safe disposal.

All this culminated in the senior management with direct supervision and immediate support for the benefit of the environment and sustainability and confirmed in the company's policy announced in all departments and with all bodies and obtaining ISO certificates, including ISO 14001:2015 environmental management.

Environmental Management System

Helwan Fertilizers Company holds a certificate of compliance with the requirements of Standard ISO14001:2015.

The company's environmental management system makes us have the tools to be friendly to the surrounding environment by supporting environmental initiatives to keep us on the path of continuous improvement.

Helwan Fertilizers' Environmental Management System is audited annually by external auditors from SGS to ensure that our environmental system meets the requirements of the standard.