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Health and safety, and environmental protection are the
matters of DIOKI's permanent concern and thus they are incorporated
in all its business processes, development programmes, strategies
and criteria for planning and decision making.
Since the company
operates and is being developed on the sites located in the
near vicinity of the city of Zagreb and on Krk Island in
the Adriatic Sea, the employees give special attention and
care to safety and environmental protection. Air, water and
soil quality are regularly monitored in compliance with regulations
in force, and competent inspectors have not reported that
allowable limit values had been exceeded. Measurements of
the levels of specific air pollutants showed that air quality
at both production sites is very high.
In addition, the employees are constantly
being given training in occupational health and safety
procedures, in fire prevention and fire-fighting and environmental
protection. Additionally, on "Open Door Days" DIOKI's
people meet with the residents of the surrounding communities
to make them familiar with our activities. In this way
the communication between the communities and DIOKI are
made better and the consciousness of environmental issues
among members of the communities is raised, which results
in more effective environmental protection.
As early as in 1985 a commission was appointed
for monitoring the influence of DINA on the environment.
The commission still consists of the representatives of professional
and state institutions and it is set up to give continuous,
comprehensive and objective professional assessment of annual
results of testing/monitoring. The commission of experts
annually draws up a programme of monitoring possible effects
of DINA operations on the environment.
Over the past years
the programme was continuously carried out, with the improvements
in its scope being regularly made.
The results of the monitoring mentioned above
do not indicate that there are harmful effects of the petrochemical
complex on the environment. In DIOKI's factory area in Zagreb,
a man-made lake was dug in the early sixties by extraction
of gravel required
for the construction of OKI's plants. The results obtained
from test ing of lake water quality at the City of Zagreb
Public Health Institute regularly confirm its high quality.
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