– Mining found after eight years of our predecessors in a deplorable state, it was necessary to diagnose the main reasons for this state of affairs – he said Thursday in Katowice Energy Minister Krzysztof Tchórzewski, summarizing conducted plants Coal Company audit. As pointed Tchórzewski such actions to accelerate work toward the creation of Polish Mining Group, whose start is scheduled for early May.
– decided to appoint (to audit – ed. ed.) social groups, which are led by people who come from the mining industry and have a great social authority. I decided that it will be people who have already met with the verification of the social, that is people who have been selected to the parliament – said the head of the department of energy, pointing to the senator Adam tales and Mr Christopher Sitarski, who directed audit conducted in plants KW.
what was the audit? A team of experts for several weeks analyzing the situation of individual mines belonging to the KW and the policy of the company in terms of production, sales, investment and employment.
– creating Polish Group Mining is not the intention of the ministry “sprinkle” of the Coal Company. The intention is to finally heal from the efficiency, management and quality of the Polish mining industry. Hence, the ministry decided to build at the beginning of PGG, when we talk of stock market investors, to show that we start the audit – said Deputy Minister of Energy Grzegorz Tobiszowski. – Audit becomes the starting point, and a confirmation of the situation in which a Coal Company – pointed out, adding that similar analyzes will be carried out in the near future plants KHW and JSW.
No system solutions
In the shared document summarizing the analysis undertaken identified a number of causes and events that led to the cumulative financial difficulty Coal Company. Besides the drop in coal prices, indicated bad use of resources mines, uncoordinated exploitation activities on the border nodes of neighboring establishments. An example is, among others, operation led by Marcel mines and Janowice in part Marklowicka.
The experts also found a lack of system solutions to effectively and efficiently plan production, low productivity and lack of full utilization of machinery and equipment in mines and the lack of walls with a high concentration of extraction. Lack of work schedules in the documentation concerning the conduct of the walls and ancestors in order to determine the appropriate capabilities of machines and devices and their proper use.
directors and retirees
In the course of the audit were also found, the organization charts in the company are very highly developed. This results in too large quantities of management positions and directorships in both the mines and the control KW and too many non-productive sectors. Auditors noted “the lack of any coordination and a common employment policy in this area.”
The committee members also pointed that mines still employs approx. 600 people with pension rights. Record-holder should retire in 2001. “Excessive employment in some mines indicates the urgent need for voluntary redundancy program for employees of the surface, including the administration and the workers underground program allocation between mines KW SA.” – Says in the document summarizing the audit carried out.
45 million for consulting companies
a major problem, according to the auditors, is a significant increase in external services performed in the mines. A serious burden for KW in recent years have been consulting services, which in 2011-2015 absorbed approx. 45 million zł. The Commission has asked for verification of companies in terms of fitness and procurement costs. As the report says, “Outsourcing services mining should only cover the execution of special works, taking into account past employment in the mines.”
the authors of documents also proposed to increase oversight of KW own distribution network of coal and thoroughly examined the domestic market demand in individual segments. Recall that KW is the largest mining company in the coal sector. It employs more than 34 thousand. people, including more than nearly 26 thousand. underground. The losses of the first half of the previous year, exceeding 750 million zł.
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