SAFETY ALERT

Injury Classification Incident Description What Occurred / Root Cause(s)

Fatality On Saturday (16/1/2022) afternoon, a fire

outbreak occurred at the fuel holding area of HIMA
Cement factory in Kasese District which claimed 3 Safety
Where? lives and left other 8 people injured . From Preliminary Root causes:
preliminary investigation, this was as a result of 1. Team complacency to safety procedures
Hima Cement Limited - sparks from welding works that were being done at 2. No proper risk assessment done for high
Kasese the light diesel tank .The plant fire brigade risk tasks
immediately rushed onto the scene and put out the 3. No work supervision by the team
fire. Further investigations are ongoing to fully
When? establish the root cause of the incident

Body Part / Nature of Injury

Date： 16/1/2022
3people dead & 8 massively injured Photos
Time: 12:30pm

Key Learnings
ACTION RESPONSIBLE SECTION DUE DATE STATUS

Review of MPL emergency evacuation plan to OHSE 2/2/2022 Not started

include all exit routes

Review & improve on risk assessments for OHSE 31/1/2022 Not started
all high risky and critical tasks

Installation of fire hydrant system across OHSE 30/3/2022 Ongoing

MPL

Conduct refresher training on Permit to Work OHSE 14/2/2022 Not started

and Safety Risk assessment

Conduct electrical audit for entire Movit OHSE /engineering 15/2/2022 Ongoing
Group

Review and implement contractor OHSE 13/2/2022 Ongoing

management procedure

Review access control for all visitors and Security/OHSE 31/1/2022 Ongoing
contractors