News

The Paterson Simons & Co. (Africa) Ltd. (PSAL) Group is proud to announce a significant achievement in our journey toward obtaining the ISO45001 Occupational Health and Safety Management System certification.

Recently our Pasico Ghana CIT Inspectors and Engineers underwent intensive training.(Pasico Ghana is a subsidiary of Paterson Simons). This was both Inspectors training and Train the Trainer (TTT) teachers training.

Our Congratulations to Chembaline Nwangwa, our Group Safety Champion Winner for the second quarter of 2024.

This achievement is a testament to our team’s dedication and commitment to ensuring safety and excellence in our operations.

Paterson Simons proudly supports National Forklift Safety Day, which is observed annually in the UK and USA on the second Tuesday in June, falling on 11 June this year.

Paterson Simons organized comprehensive theoretical & practical training on Grove cranes, for our Takoradi based engineers.

Good and well trained crane operators and riggers are not the only prerequisite to successfully complete safe lifting operations.

Paterson Simons recently delivered a Grove GMK6300-1 to a mining customer. This was their first modern pinned boom all terrain crane.

Paterson Simons Group recently hosted comprehensive training sessions at our Takoradi Training Centre, tailored specifically for the Newmont Ahafo North community members as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative.

The Paterson Simons team, dedicated to the Newmont Ahafo South contract were honoured as Safety Champions for the month of November 2023.

Pasico Ghana currently have stock of the A2B cable, as this is a critical component of the crane’s safety system. If the cable is damaged the crane can only be operated through bypassing the safety system. Operating the crane with the system bypassed is a major cause of accidents.

In February, Paterson Simons conducted Manitou Factory training for operators from Cocoa Marketing Company Ghana LTD (CMC) in Ancenis, France.