Safety of workers and survival of enterprises: Metinvest SOO Alexander Mironenko - about the main challenges for CEO during the war

He noted that the investment and production medium-term planning, the established priorities and the tasks of such a conservative industry as the mining and metallurgical complex, have lost their relevance on February 24, 2022, according to the company's press release.

From the beginning of the full -scale war, Metinvest has identified three basic priorities of work: the safety of employees and the maximum provision of people in the war zone, the preservation of production facilities and the survival of the company. Based on these priorities, the group has built its system of organization of work. "We got the worst experience in Mariupol.

We took people out of the surrounding city, placed them in Zaporozhye, Kamiansky, Kryvyi Rih and tried to adapt and work at active enterprises," - said Alexander Mironenko. In Kryvyi Rih, the company preserved enterprises located near the front line and evacuated employees. At enterprises in Zaporozhye Metinvest used a similar algorithm of action, and in Avdiivka the company worked until the summer of 2022, until the front line approached the city.

Now the "hot" direction - Pokrovsk: every two weeks the management of Metinvest visits businesses to take care of staff. In order to prevent the loss of the team and to maintain production facilities, the company has developed its safety protocols. And the production of products for the army, in particular, shelters, mine traces and other necessary products for the front, Metinvest organized in separate areas outside the enterprises - not to bring people to danger.

The main qualities for managers of enterprises that enable them to be effective combat SEO, Alexander Mironenko considers the courage to make quick decisions and bear responsibility for them, because each decision can relate to both production and life of people. Also, in order to create a culture of self -development of topless, one must consider people's initiative, always be open to their personal opinion.

It is known that Metinvest Rinat Akhmetov for 9 months of 2024 increased the payment of taxes and fees to budgets of all levels in Ukraine by 38% against the same period of 2023 - up to UAH 15. 2 billion. Also, since the beginning of a full -scale invasion, Metinvest has been assisting Ukraine and its citizens already UAH 7. 7 billion. Of these, UAH 4. 1 billion was allocated for the needs of the Armed Forces, within the framework of the Militar Initiative "Rinat Akhmetov's steel front".