Health and safety in practice

Our Road to Safety is an industry best practice that we employ as part of our quality programme. By travelling the Road to Safety, we not only meet the complexity of legal requirements but also do so by adding value to the project.

The Road to Safety incorporates practices for:

Motivation

DuPont style audits
Spot prizes
Poster campaigns
Accident display boards
Near miss reporting
Most improved contractor
Communicate accident investigations
Suggestion boxes
Back of toilet door
White board

Discipline

Red/yellow card rules
Strict discipline
Safety Officer
Shock posters
PPE policy enforced
Dismissal

Information

Flash card inductions
Video inductions
Tool Box Talks
Laminated cards
Mini safety plans
Training
Buddying
Hazard of the Day board
Safety quiz
Video activities
Demonstrate safety equipment

The benefits of health and safety management

Our quality programme aims to remove design errors and late changes. The greatest ‘safety’ risks are unplanned events so our focus is to eliminate these thereby removing the risks at source.

The benefits:

integrates safety, health, environment and quality management
dovetails with customer culture and standards
meets all legal duties and assist in validation – CDM, CE mark, COMAH, EPA, IPPC, FDA/MHRA, etc.
simple to understand
offers practical ‘safety’ tools
avoids duplication
reduces time and cost.