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The main challenges for the team to achieve this record were to identify, evaluate, monitor and control all hazards and risks continuously as well as to motivate staff to comply with the programme. Siemens teams have also been working on the Hwange power station where they were awarded the Station Manager's Health and Safety Merit Certificate for exceptional performance this year and on Hendrina powerstation where they reached 300 000 accident-free hours in 1997.
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