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