Occupational Health and Safety

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Occupational Health and Safety:

1. All work is undertaken in compliance with ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Standards.

2. ISO 45001 OHS is intended to enable the company to manage its OHS risks and improve its OHS performance. ISO 45001 is a strategic sustainable company decision to help is people be safer, healthier and more effective.

3. The company is responsible for ensuring that it minimises the risk of harm to the people who may be affected by its activities. People include its workers, operatives, managers, contractors, subcontractors and visitors. The company is responsible to people engaged to perform documented procedures where those procedures are part of their occupation.

4. The company ask people to undertake certain physical activities that may be hazardous to health where appropriate preventative measure are not taken. Documentation identifies each and every activity, each potential hazard and every appropriate preventative measure. Continuous improvements are then applied to reduce hazards and improve preventative measures.

5. It is logical that those people undertaking physical activities will be more knowledgeable about the risks and what preventative measures may be appropriate. ISO 45001 is about the involvement of everybody in a coordinated way to achieve a safe, healthly and effective working environment. Legal obligations may also be required to promote well being as a management tool, not as a legally binding document.

2. Glossary of Terms:

OHS means Occupational Health and Safety as the subject of ISO 45001 standard.

ILO means International Labour Organisations OSH Guidelines and ILS standards.

HSE means Health and Safety Executive as the regulator who enforces these legal regulations.

3. ICRVI Methodology:

1. Identify all the processes and procedures (activities) at the place of work.

2. Check with the help of all involved people (operatives) whether any procedure has significant associated hazards that could cause harm.

3. Reduce risks that can lead to serious injury (accidents or long term sickness) by removing the hazard, modifying the work process aand protecting the people involced (workers).

4. Verify whether the measures you have put in place to protect people are working properly and that the rules are being followed.

5. Improve by always looking out for what could be done better and more safely.

4. OHS Performance:

1. Developing and implementing the OHS Policy and OHS Objectives.

2. Establish systematic processes which consider its context and which take into accout risks and opportunities, and its legal and other requirements.

3. Determining the hazards and OHS risks associated with its activitiesl seeking to eliminate them or putting in controls to munimise the potential effects.

4. Establishing operational controls to manage its OHS risks and its legal and other requirements.

5. Increasing awareness of its OHS risks.

6. Evaluating its OHS performance and seeking to improve it, through taking appropriate actions.

7. Ensuring people take an active role in OHS matters.

5. Benefit Analysis:

1. Improving the ability to respond to regulatory complience issues.

2. Reducing the cost of incidents and accidents.

3. Reducing downtime and the cost of disruption to operations.

4. Reducing the cost of accident insurance premiums.

5. Reducing absenteeism and employee turnover rates.

6. Recognition of having achieved an international benchmark.

7. Compliance within a supply chain of shared and common standards.

6. Risk Assessments:

1. The company (with more than 5 employees) must undertake a risk assessment and prepare a method statement before work commences.

2. A Risk assessments will identify a list of potential hazards. Each potential hazard will identify a list of control measures to eliminate, mitigate or reduce the risk.

3. RAMS: Risk Assessment Method Statement is prepared for each significant activity.

4. TSRA: Task Specific Risk Assessment is prepared for each assigned activity.

7. Internal Audit:

1. At the end of each week, an internal health and safety report is prepared and shared with all parties for review and improvement.

2. Methods of working can improve. Control measures can be part of the normal method of working.

3. The internal health and safety report shall include:

(1) DAB Daily Activity Briefing for each day of the week.

(2) PCS Daily Registry and Pre-start Check Sheet for each person for each day of the week.

(3) HAV Daily Hand Arm Viration Register for each applicable person for each day of the week.

(4) FIRER Weekly Fire Extinguisher Inspection Register.

(5) PUWER Weekly Provided and Use of Work Equipment Inspection Register.

(6) LOLER Weekly Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Inspection Register.

4. This internal health and safety report is shared with all parties with an objective of identifying any error or ommission so it can be corrected. The health and safety of every person is involved so the internal audit is shared with everyone and any improvement contribution from any person is welcomed. Every worker, contractor and subcontractor is asked to act an a health and safety auditor and propose ways to get the job done in a safe way.

8. Corrective Action Plan:

1. It is understood that construction is not perfect every time and that non-conformance issues will be raised from time-to-time.

2. Every health and safety non-conformance is documented as a Corrective Action Plan (CAP) that will introduce control meeasures and alternative methods of workign to mitigate the non-conformance.

3. Every Corrective Action Plan indentifies a "root cause" that when mitigated, will cause the non-conformance to be mitigated.

4. The objective of a Corrective Action Plan is not to assign blame, but to eliminate, mitigate and reduce the possibility of a non-conformance.

Document Control.

1. Document Title: Occupational Health and Safety.

2. Description: Occupational Health and Safety.

3. Keywords: Occupational Health and Safety.

4. Privacy: Shared with approved people for the benefit of humanity.

5. Edition: 1.1.

6. Issued: 2 Jan 2018.