4.2.0 Oh and S Policy

Obligations

[enter-your-company-name-here] recognises its moral and legal responsibility to provide a safe and healthy work environment for employees, contractors, customers and visitors. This commitment extends to ensuring that the organisation’s operations do not place the local community at risk of injury, illness, environmental or property damage.

Values and Objectives

A core value of [enter-your-company-name-here] is that safety is an integral part of every job. No task is so urgent and no service is so important that we cannot do it safely. Occupational Health and Safety considerations are not to be compromised by other business objectives.

[enter-your-company-name-here] believes that accidents and injuries are preventable and that good safety is good business. Our reputation and profitability depend upon our ability to manage our operations safely.

[enter-your-company-name-here]’s approach to safety is based upon consultation, learning and continual improvement.

Our objectives are to:

• Provide safe working environment and systems of work.
• Promote the active identification, assessment and control of workplace risk.
• Ensure compliance with legislation, contractual requirements and current industry standards.
• Be an industry leader in occupational health and safety.
• Provide information, instruction, training and supervision to employees, contractors and customers to ensure their safety. This includes ensuring that they understand that they must adhere to [enter-your-company-name-here] policy, procedures, safety rules and safe work methods.
• Provide a structured Injury Management and Rehabilitation program to injured employees in order to assist rehabilitation and return to work.
• Ensuring that all work activities are carried out by competent and suitably trained people.
• Systematically audit and continuously improve OH&S performance through the maintenance of a safety management system.

Responsibilities

Health and Safety responsibility and accountability rests with every employee.

Each management representative is accountable for implementing this policy in their area of control. This will be measured at annual performance reviews.

Management is responsible for:

• The provision and maintenance of the workplace in a safe condition.
• Involvement in the development, promotion and implementation of health, safety and environmental policies and procedures.
• Training employees in the safe performance of their assigned tasks.
• The provision of resources to meet the health and safety commitment.

Employees are to:

• Follow all health and safety policies and procedures.
• Report all known or observed hazards to their immediate supervisor or manager.
• Report immediately, any work related injury to management

Application Of The Policy

This policy is applicable to all [enter-your-company-name-here] operations and functions including those situations where employees are required to work off site.

Consultation

[enter-your-company-name-here] is committed to consultation and cooperation between management and employees. [enter-your-company-name-here] encourages consultation with elected employee health and safety representatives and employees in any workplace change that will affect the health and safety of any of its employees.

Accessibility

A copy of this policy shall be made available to every member of our organisation, either as hard copy, displayed on notice boards or reproduced in electronic form.