Health & Safety
Health & Safety
Our primary aim is maintaining and further developing a first class safety and environmental culture within Barhale. This is driven by our goal for Zero accidents, injuries and environmental incidents which is supported by our step change improvement programme.
We are focussed on developing a positive and proactive culture, not only for our own people, but also for our suppliers and sub-contractors.
We have focussed our improvement programme in the following eight key areas:
- Management & Leadership
- Managing Risk
- Working with Employees
- Working with our Suppliers & Sub-Contractors
- Setting Plans and Targets
- Having Effective Procedures & Guidance
- Reporting/Reviewing & Investigating
- Effective Assurance via Auditing
Health and Safety is at the heart of all we do, it is the first of our eight values and is at the top of our board and management meetings. We are not satisfied with mediocrity and we want to achieve and maintain our goal of zero accidents and world class health and safety performance.
Our performance is rigidly monitored on a monthly basis through Safety and Environmental Pillar measures which are an integral part of our Three Pillar strategy and provide a vehicle for monitoring continuous improvement throughout the business.
Our Three Pillar sustainability strategy brings together the synergy of an integrated management system where our achievement of ISO9001, ISO14001 and OHSAS 18001 provides common systems and business benefits.
For 2009 we are concentrating on further developing our approach to behavioural safety. We already have a well embedded culture of Near Miss reporting and using full time safety coaches working across our sites to help develop H&S skills and the right behaviours with our people.
We have a major programme of behavioural safety events in place and we firmly believe that by retaining a direct labour force we can better maintain a positive safety culture within our business. We will use this learning and extend this approach to bring about environmental improvements and develop a culture of behavioural responsibility.
To view our Health & Safety Policy please click here
To view the Integrated Management Policy click here
To view our OHSAS 18001 certificate please click here