Areas of Activity
worldsteel's key areas of activity include:
Safety and health
worldsteel promotes a policy of zero harm to all steel industry employees and contractors. The aim is to achieve an accident-free workplace across the industry.
Climate change
The world steel industry has developed a global approach to tackling climate change. worldsteel has a position paper on CO2 emissions reduction.
Economics
The association publishes monthly production statistics and two annual statistics publications: the Steel Statistical Yearbook and World Steel in Figures. Information on future trends is published twice a year, in the form of a short range outlook for steel demand.
Sustainability
The association and its member companies have formulated a policy on sustainable development to measure the industry's economic, environmental and social performance. worldsteel produces a biennial sustainability report. The latest edition is the 2008 Sustainability Report of the world steel industry. There is an update to the report every year.
The automotive and construction sectors
The WorldAutoSteel and Living Steel programmes stimulate innovation and use of steel in the automotive and building sectors.
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