Qatar Steel held its 35th Quality Control Forum at the Grand Hyatt recently.
This was an important event on the company’s calendar, and was attended by Qatar Steel managing director and CEO Mohamed Nasser al-Hajri and other senior executives.
Aiming towards building the future, the QC Circle activities are aimed at encouraging employees to create new ideas in order to improve working conditions, safety, and individual development for the growth of the organisation.
Elaborating on the significance of QC Circle in Qatar Steel, al-Hajri said, ‘Qatar Steel constantly endeavours to move beyond the traditional ‘total quality management’ to explore how we can create a culture in which employees ‘live’ quality in all their actions – where they are passionate about quality as a personal value, and not just simply obeying an instruction from top.
“We define a ‘true culture of quality’ as an environment in which employees not only follow quality guidelines but also consistently see others taking quality-focused actions, hear others talking about quality, and feel quality all around them’.
Qatar Steel has realised numerous milestones since inception in 1974, and throughout its long journey it has always “aspired to achieve much higher levels of progress and development” than targeted.
As a result Qatar Steel was recently accredited with an exclusive recognition by TURKAK (Turkish Accreditation Institution, Turkey), for chemical and mechanical testing of carbon steel used for reinforcement of concrete in Qatar and around the world.
In addition, Qatar Steel is the first steel company to achieve a performance rating of ‘very good’ for the prestigious BES 6001 Responsible Sourcing Certification from CARES UK after the successful reassessment audit conducted along with CARES SCS Scheme Surveillance Audit.
Qatar Steel is also the first rebar manufacturer in the GCC region that obtained the Certificate of Product Performance from Australasian Certification Authority for Reinforcing and Structural steels (ACRS), which will enable Qatar Steel to market its products in Australia and New Zealand.
Qatar Steel received Global HSE Excellence Award for 2018-2019 from the World Steel Association in recognition of the company’s performance to ongoing commitment to preservation of HSE in the plant.
Qatar Steel was also awarded as one of the best operating Direct Reduction modules for its outstanding plant availability by MIDREX Technologies, Inc. at the Midrex Conference 2019 in Dublin.
On the necessity of QC Circle meeting, Majid Mohamed al-Marr, Quality Assurance manager said, “We studied eight technical presentations and concluded that factors that drive quality as a cultural value are: leadership, message credibility, peer involvement, and most importantly employee ownership of quality issues. It has encouraged our employees to reduce cost in various areas of operations leading to production of defect-free goods. Consistent with objectives, we conduct group brainstorming sessions to determine the root causes of bottlenecks and identify corrective actions to act upon.’
Eight ‘MD & CEO awards’ were presented to different departments as part of the event.
Aiming towards building the future, the QC Circle activities are aimed at encouraging employees to create new ideas in order to improve working conditions, safety, and individual development for the growth of the organisation.
Qatar Steel employees at the company's 35th Quality Control Forum at the Grand Hyatt
Elaborating on the significance of QC Circle in Qatar Steel, al-Hajri said, ‘Qatar Steel constantly endeavours to move beyond the traditional ‘total quality management’ to explore how we can create a culture in which employees ‘live’ quality in all their actions – where they are passionate about quality as a personal value, and not just simply obeying an instruction from top.
“We define a ‘true culture of quality’ as an environment in which employees not only follow quality guidelines but also consistently see others taking quality-focused actions, hear others talking about quality, and feel quality all around them’.
Qatar Steel has realised numerous milestones since inception in 1974, and throughout its long journey it has always “aspired to achieve much higher levels of progress and development” than targeted.
As a result Qatar Steel was recently accredited with an exclusive recognition by TURKAK (Turkish Accreditation Institution, Turkey), for chemical and mechanical testing of carbon steel used for reinforcement of concrete in Qatar and around the world.
In addition, Qatar Steel is the first steel company to achieve a performance rating of ‘very good’ for the prestigious BES 6001 Responsible Sourcing Certification from CARES UK after the successful reassessment audit conducted along with CARES SCS Scheme Surveillance Audit.
Qatar Steel is also the first rebar manufacturer in the GCC region that obtained the Certificate of Product Performance from Australasian Certification Authority for Reinforcing and Structural steels (ACRS), which will enable Qatar Steel to market its products in Australia and New Zealand.
Qatar Steel received Global HSE Excellence Award for 2018-2019 from the World Steel Association in recognition of the company’s performance to ongoing commitment to preservation of HSE in the plant.
Qatar Steel was also awarded as one of the best operating Direct Reduction modules for its outstanding plant availability by MIDREX Technologies, Inc. at the Midrex Conference 2019 in Dublin.
On the necessity of QC Circle meeting, Majid Mohamed al-Marr, Quality Assurance manager said, “We studied eight technical presentations and concluded that factors that drive quality as a cultural value are: leadership, message credibility, peer involvement, and most importantly employee ownership of quality issues. It has encouraged our employees to reduce cost in various areas of operations leading to production of defect-free goods. Consistent with objectives, we conduct group brainstorming sessions to determine the root causes of bottlenecks and identify corrective actions to act upon.’
Eight ‘MD & CEO awards’ were presented to different departments as part of the event.