In 2026, we began a project in Vale’s base metals business, working with fuel stations and materials warehouses. I participate as a mentor in the development of supervisors in the North and in the work on safety competencies for the roles covered by this scope.
The project combines training, technical visits, and the development of risk management tools. This connection matters because we are working with people who need to understand their role in safety, and with risk conditions that need to be understood at each location.
Training and fieldwork in risk management
The project brings together people’s development and an understanding of local working conditions.
Supervisors: Caçadores de Risco, with 10 modules. All roles: technical and nontechnical competencies. Fieldwork: visits inform action plans and the development of critical control checklists. These areas of work complement each other, with no required sequence between them.
The three areas of work complement each other within the scope of the fuel stations and warehouses.
Caçadores de Risco and the role of supervisors
The Caçadores de Risco program is organized into ten modules to develop supervisors’ risk management competency. In mentoring, we work on understanding what this responsibility means for those who supervise activities.
Managing a risk requires understanding the condition encountered and what needs to be done about it. This is the capability we are developing with supervisors. Understanding their own role gives meaning to the training: what they learn needs to help leaders deal with risks in the activities they supervise.
We have already seen greater engagement from leaders in understanding their role. We are observing this development during the implementation of the program, which remains underway.
Competencies for the roles in these areas
In addition to the work with supervisors, we developed a safety competency program for all roles within the scope of the fuel stations and warehouses. It includes technical and nontechnical training related to strengthening safety culture.
Safety also depends on the people in each role understanding their responsibility. That is why the training needs to make sense to the people who work in these environments.
Understanding local conditions guides the work
Technical visits help us understand risk conditions and support teams in improving how they manage these risks at each location. We have already conducted visits and have action plans. This presence at the sites brings the development work closer to the conditions teams encounter in their activities.
Based on the visits and our understanding of critical risks, we are developing critical control checklists. Their purpose is to support the prevention of serious and fatal accidents at the fuel stations and warehouses covered by the project. The checklists are still being developed, guided by our understanding of local risks.