Health & Safety

Our leaders will create an open, innovative, fair and just culture and focus on the delivery of sustainable and exemplary health and safety performance.

We will identify desired and undesired behaviours for all our people. Additional behaviours will be identified for supervisors and managers, who will be expected to show leadership in health and safety.

There will be active open communication, consultation and engagement with all our people, and our supply chain. Health and Safety will be integrated into our communications, wherever appropriate. We will engage with our workforce on Health and Safety and act on issues raised and we will share learning both within our organisation and elsewhere.

Adequate resources will be provided to ensure all our people, our supply chain and stakeholders are aware of this policy and committed to its effective implementation.

Roles and responsibilities for Health and Safety will be defined, as necessary, within job descriptions or profiles. Senior Management will ensure that adequate resources are provided for Health and Safety; Health and Safety is adequately assessed, controlled and monitored; and our people are actively involved on matters that affect Health and Safety

All our people will be adequately engaged, instructed and trained on the Health and Safety issues that affect them, and the safe working practices that should be followed. We will ensure the Health and Safety competence of our supply chain and stakeholders.

There will be active open communication, consultation and engagement with all our people, and our supply chain. Health and Safety will be integrated into our communications, wherever appropriate. We will engage with our workforce on Health and Safety and act on issues raised and we will share learning both within our organisation and elsewhere.

We will work hard to engage and influence everyone who is involved in or impacted by our work to drive improvements in Health and Safety. We will only work with partners and customers who are willing to fulfil our Health and Safety expectations.

We will assess our occupational health risks. All our people will be informed of the occupational health risks that affect their work. We will take action to prevent, reduce or control occupational health risks to an acceptable level and reduce the potential for ill health, including assessing our people’s fitness for work, as we work towards our vision of zero ill health caused or made worse by work. Health surveillance will be conducted to satisfy Health and Safety legislation. We will use the workplace as a venue to promote healthy lifestyles.

We will identify our workplace Health and Safety hazards. We will inform our people, the supply chain and stakeholders, as appropriate, of these workplace hazards. We will require our supply chain and stakeholders to identify Health and Safety hazards that may impact on our work activities.

We will assess the risks associated with Health and Safety hazards in the workplace. All our people will be informed of the Health and Safety hazards and risks that affect their work. We will take action to prevent, reduce or control risks to an acceptable level and reduce the potential for incidents and accidents. We will require our supply chain and stakeholders to identify Health and Safety risks that may impact on our work activities.

We will report and investigate accidents, incidents and near misses to drive improvement in our Health and Safety management. Any lessons learnt from such events will be used to take corrective action to prevent recurrences.

We will implement management systems to ensure we comply with Health and Safety legislation; – fulfil the requirements of OHSAS18001; and- continually improve our Health and Safety performance.

We will adopt robust and systematic working practices and processes, develop them in a controlled way to meet new challenges and monitor them to ensure they remain effective.

We will actively and openly, review and report on our Health and Safety performance against published objectives and targets. Improvement plans will be developed to support the delivery of these objectives and targets.

We will constantly encourage, develop, review and share “Health and Safety Good Practice” both internally and externally.

The requirements of this policy will be communicated to all our people and will be delivered by generating a culture that does not tolerate threats to Health and Safety, and ensuring the real engagement of all our people, the supply chain and stakeholders