Health and Safety Vision and Strategic Objectives

Vision

'In all matters of health and safety to aspire to match best practices and wherever appropriate to exceed them'.

Best practice is defined as:

'To view regulatory compliance as a minimum standard and to seek a continuous improvement in performance'

Objectives

  • Continually improve the health and safety of premises, plant and people
  • Implement and maintain safety management systems
  • Improve audit scores and feedback internally and externally from all stakeholders
  • For incident performance, where measured, to be consistently better than the industry average and to improve year on year
  • Receive no prosecutions or enforcement notices from authorities
  • Increase pro-active thinking among staff so we are less dependent upon a reactive response to issues

Strategies

  • Clarify lines of accountability for health and safety within the business
  • Assess our health and safety culture/behaviour and method of measuring changes
  • Assess the requirement for training and ensure its effective delivery
  • To encourage suggestions from staff
  • Carry out an annual review of stakeholder views of how we are doing e.g. HSE, Local Authority, Contractors etc
  • Work and exchange information with other relevant organisations and industry bodies