Digitalisation and employee involvement

Digitalisation and employee involvement strengthen health and safety

In 2025, the BIRN Group maintained the important focus on health and safety required by the foundry sector. All companies have launched their own initiatives, which have increased employee involvement and make the safety culture an integral part of day-to-day work.

At BIRN in Holstebro, a digital safety management system was fully rolled out in 2025, and the plan is to gradually connect the other BIRN Group companies. The system is intended to support an even more systematic approach to tackling health and safety challenges and reducing the risk of accidents at work and the experience gained from this is positive.

After digitalising our safety activities, the number of safety observations increased significantly and the remediation of the problems has become more systematic. The health and safety manager in the individual department can quickly assess who should take responsibility for an observation and forward it to the system. Accidents and near misses are recorded and processed digitally, which provides a much better data foundation for the monitoring and continuous improvement of the working environment. In 2025, when the system was fully implemented at BIRN in Holstebro for the first time, the results were clear, with a reduction in accidents at work of 73 per cent.

Health and safety go hand in hand
After implementation of the safety management system, BIRN in Holstebro also achieved an even better overview of where information and reminders are needed about the correct use of technical aids, as well as which areas may even require new solutions.

The foundry sector can be physically demanding and work is ongoing to examine whether new technical aids can reduce the load on the body and whether the existing ones are being used correctly. The digital safety management system has also created new opportunities to register when an employee experiences pain and to track the process all the way to completion. This strengthens the ability to take action where occupational injuries systematically occur, so that wear and tear among employees can be prevented.