Raquel Pérez

¿Sabéis que es SEVESO?

SEVESO es un término que se refiere a la “Directiva Seveso”, una legislación europea relacionada con la prevención y el control de accidentes graves que involucran sustancias peligrosas. Esta directiva lleva el nombre de la ciudad italiana Seveso, donde ocurrió un accidente químico grave en 1976. La legislación establece requisitos y medidas para prevenir y limitar las consecuencias de accidentes similares.

Queríamos informaros que tal y como comunicamos a principios del año anterior (https://www.sptlogistic.com/2022/01/11/spt-se-une-a-la-normativa-seveso/) la actividad empresarial de SPT Spain Portugal Transportes Logistic LDA, ubicada en Santo Tirso, está sujeta a la Legislación de prevención de Accidentes Graves, Directiva Seveso (artículo 30 del DL nº 150/2015) publicado el 5 de agosto de 2015.

En este contexto, SPT Portugal proporciona información relacionada con su establecimiento operativo cubierto por el Régimen de Prevención de Accidentes Graves que involucran Sustancias Peligrosas y la Limitación de sus Consecuencias para la Salud Humana y el Medio Ambiente.

SPT Portugal, en el marco de la responsabilidad empresarial y social descrita en su Sistema de Calidad ISO 9001/2015 y SGSPAG (Sistema de Gestión y Seguridad de prevención de accidentes Graves) garantiza el cumplimiento de los procedimientos operativos.

En este sentido, SPT Portugal refuerza su acción y responsabilidad, publicando a través de su sitio web información relevante que tiene como objetivo crear conciencia en la sociedad civil y empresarial, autoridades oficiales, proveedores, clientes y colaboradores sobre las medidas de autoprotección pertinentes.

Divulgación de información y medidas de autoprotección:

• Información al público
• PPAG Resumen Política Accidentes graves

After announcing the start of our radiofrequency project in December 2022, we want to communicate that the set objectives will be achieved through three pillars of development, relevant to the company’s culture and strategy. They are as follows:

Technological Development:

• Software
  • “SGA” App (Warehouse Management System linked to Sage X3)
  • Sage X3 (improved data levels and records)
• Hardware
  • Acquisition of PDAs for forklift drivers and printers with installation on handling equipment.

Employees:

• Standardization of procedures at the Iberian level.

Levels of communication, internal and external:

• The levels of information are progressively improving, and this evidence will be visible and consolidated after the completion of the project.
• Information timelines will be drastically reduced, resulting in increased effectiveness.

Development Phases:

• Inbound: Between May 16 and June 13, 2023, SPT Iberia initiated the installation of this Download/Conference/Location (Storage) module.
• Outbound: Scheduled for July 2023, consisting of collection and shipment.
• National Transportation: Planned for September 2023.
• Client App: Reprogrammed for the last quarter of 2023.

Today we visited SIL Barcelona to learn about the latest developments in the logistics sector.

We are very pleased to announce that SPT Portugal has achieved the Negocios+ certificate. It is a business certificate that highlights the performance of the best Portuguese companies. The certificate has the following information:

• Turnover
  Export indicator
  Number of employees
  Position in the ranking of economic activity
  Position in the national ranking
  Financial resilience indicator

This certification is guaranteed by Jornal de Negócios and Informa D&B, a leading company in Business Information.

View el certificate

We are very proud to announce that, after 6 months, Igmaot, an accredited public entity of great technical and didactic competence, has completed its environmental review of our company.

This entity is comprised of a multidisciplinary Environmental Inspection team that carries out reviews of public and private organizations, examining their environmental impact based on risk analysis criteria, and aims to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, preventing situations entailing serious danger to people’s health and safety, property and the environment.

We would like to to highlight the strong strategic decisions and the proactive responsibility demonstrated by SPT LOGISTIC’s management, as well as the contributions of its collaborators and its Safety Advisor for the prevention and reduction of risks associated with the company’s activity.

For more information, we are providing the report with all the results:

SEE THE IGAMAOT INSPECTION REPORT

In November of 2022 SPT IBÉRIA initiated an RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology project, a generic term for technologies that use radio frequencies in order to capture data relevant to  logistical processes, as seen in this video: https://youtu.be/EYJZbtXnBJM.

It will take a year for the project to be 100% up and running. It will be implemented at both warehouses: St Tirso (Portugal) and Callús (Spain), with the following objectives:

– Increasing levels of communication between our customers’ ERP and the SPT ERP.

– Reducing communication times.

– Tracking work orders in real time.

– Providing the customer with data through an SPT App (2024)

More news to come in 2023

SPT IBERIA has expanded its warehouses by 3,500 m2 and equipped them with foam sprayers, with an extinguishing capacity of 3′.

Both warehouses, St Tirso (Portugal) and Callús (Spain), will be expanded between January and June 2023.

We have increased the capacities of the current warehouses in terms of their number of pallets and, very importantly, we have increased the safety levels at our company, always looking after our customers, employees, civil society and the environment.

More information to follow in 2023.

SPT continues to invest in the training of its human resources, increasing the competence and the demand for the services provided to the Client.

These investments continue to be made, and we will shortly give new news about “surgical” actions in progress.

SPT Portugal, two years ago, launches a challenge to Artur Patrício – Terminal Manager of SPT Portugal, to perform a Master Business Administration of Companies and Management of Projects. The challenge was accepted and satisfactorily and completed in May 2022.

At SPT Spain, at the end of 2021 I launches a challenge to Victor Fontan – Terminal Manager SPT Logistic Iberia to carry out an external training in Leadership to provide tools and guidelines to enhance the Vision and Values ​​of the SPT Ibérica Organization. The challenge was accepted and carried out with a excellent result in May 2022, opening the door for a new complementary course in Business Communication.

SPT LOGISTIC PORTUGAL, highly aware of its social and environmental responsibility, and within the scope of its inherent obligations, has decided to go one step further and, in order to provide its customers with the very best service, is now engaged in the regularization/ delivery phase of the Seveso dossier to the Portuguese Environment Agency (APA).

This dossier sets down the necessary standards for the prevention of serious accidents in industries that work with dangerous substances.

We have been working on the accident prevention policy internally at SPT for a long time. Our customers can rest assured that their products are well received because they are not only compliant with current law, but also with the implementation of good practices. And now we are adding a Serious Accident Prevention Policy.

Proactivity is crucial at SPT, so we welcome and promote it.

With this step SPT assumes greater responsibility for the logistics chain. But, above all, it guarantees its customers that its products, the vast majority of them classified as “dangerous”, are handled accordingly.

Notwithstanding this fact, SPT customers as a whole must also ensure that they also comply with all the applicable legal, social and environmental requirements, so as not to undermine SPT’s safety with regards to stored products,  neighboring companies, or the population affected. This is, indeed, a responsibility of all and for all.

Informative note on the origin of the SEVESO denomination.

In 1976 a major hazardous materials accident occurred in the Italian city of Seveso, giving rise to a European directive whose main objective was to establish procedures and practices for the prevention of serious accidents, and the limitation of their impact on human health and the environment, at facilities that work with dangerous chemical agents.

At SPT Spain the new IBC (Intermediate Bulk Container) packaging machine is now operational, which will allow us to repack tanks to containers and drums in a fully automated way.

This machine allows a large quantity of liquid to be repacked, and is designed to fill drums and IBCs normally used in the Food and Chemicals industries.

We have two totally independent repackaging systems that allow us to repackage both food and conventional products.

We are also studying the implementation of the same machine at the SPT Portugal facilities.