Tata Steel UK has marked both worldsteel Day for Safety and Health and International Workers' Day, reinforcing its commitment to creating a workplace where safety and wellbeing come first.
Colleagues, Trades Union representatives and contractor partners across the business paused for two minutes’ silence yesterday to mark worldsteel Day for Safety and Health and International Workers’ Memorial Day.
Ceremonies were held across Tata Steel UK sites, as people came together to reflect and remember those who have been injured or lost their lives due to workplace incidents across the world.
Services this year were particularly poignant, following the tragic fatal incident at the company’s Corby site in January.
The day provides an opportunity to reflect, remember and reaffirm the company’s focus on ensuring that everyone goes home safe, healthy and well at the end of every day or every shift.
In a message to employees, Chief Executive Officer Rajesh Nair said:
“Today, as we mark both worldsteel Day for Safety and Health and International Workers’ Memorial Day, we pause, reflect, and recommit to looking out for one another. Safety isn’t just something we talk about – it’s who we are. It’s our core value.”
He added:
“In an industry as demanding as ours, absolutely nothing is more important than ensuring that everyone goes home safe, healthy and well at the end of every day or every shift.”
About Tata Steel UK
- The Tata Steel Group has been named one of the most ethical companies in the world, and is among the top producing global steel companies with an annual crude steel capacity of 34 million tonnes.
- Tata Steel in the UK has the ambition to produce net-zero steel by 2045 at the latest, and to have reduced 30% of its CO2 emissions by 2030.
- In October 2024, Tata Steel ceased ironmaking at its Port Talbot site and temporarily paused steelmaking pending the construction of a 3.2Mtpa Electric Arc Furnace, due to be commissioned late in 2027 / early 2028. For that period, the business will import slab and hot rolled coil to support manufacturing and distribution operations at sites across Wales, England and Northern Ireland as well as Norway, Sweden, France, Germany and UAE. It also benefits from a network of sales offices around the world.
- Throughout 2024 Tata Steel UK has been undergoing a restructuring that will reduce the size of its workforce to around 5000 direct employees, supplying high-quality steel products to demanding markets, including construction and infrastructure, automotive, packaging and engineering.
- Tata Steel Group is one of the world's most geographically-diversified steel producers, with operations and a commercial presence across the world.
- The group recorded a consolidated turnover of around US$26 billion in the financial year ending March 31, 2025.
- Tata Steel has long played a key role in enabling the UK economy to become more circular. Its products are highly durable, reusable and recyclable, It applies a sustainability assessment tool during its new product development process to measure the sustainability credentials of its new offerings.
- More information about the crucial role that Tata Steel UK already plays in driving the UK to a more circular economy, and its plans to play an even greater role, can be found in its recently-published Sustainability Report covering 2023-2025.