Behavior Based Safety Around The Globe

A global economy is no longer a future vision, but a reality and a necessity. However, doing business internationally requires much more than mutual commerce; it requires in-depth customer knowledge. With 30 years’ experience, Quality Safety Edge has developed customized solutions for clients in 27 countries.

Not only is QSE’s ability to work with different cultures and languages a key factor in our clients’ decisions in choosing us to help them meet their goals, but our clients are delighted that we customize our solutions to their local culture, business, and industry. In short, we come in as partners. We work collaboratively with our clients to customize solutions around your management style, your company culture, and your unique goals.

Step-by-Step Safety at Embraco Slovakia

A thriving factory with 2200 employees (approximately 1900 of those employees on the production floor) manufacturing high-quality products for customers around the world—this is the Embraco Slovakia plant. Embraco Slovakia is a subsidiary of Embraco—one of the largest worldwide producers of compressors and condensing units for refrigeration. In 2011 this facility in the small town of Spisska’ Nova’ Ves produced an estimated 4 million compressors, including a specialty line exclusively made at this location.

Incidents can happen even in safe workplaces, because human behavior is unpredictable. That was certainly the case when a warehouse employee of the Suwanee, Georgia, location of Embraco North America (ENA), a sales, R&D, and distribution center for Embraco—a world leader in the manufacture of refrigeration compressors—was unlucky enough to be involved in a frightening situation. “We had an employee who was wrapping a pallet.

"Business in Latin America isn’t for beginners; if it were, everyone would be doing it.” —Christian Ingle

Three years ago Quality Safety Edge (QSE) established a permanent presence in Latin America, opening an office in Brazil, as well as establishing local representation in Colombia. They wanted to ensure that their global strategy attended to the needs of the local population. In Latin America, QSE discovered very quickly that doing business, meant being visible, being local, and most importantly, being accountable.