Obligations
AWB Limited (AWB) recognises its moral and legal responsibility to provide a safe and healthy work environment for officers, 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 AWB 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.
AWB 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.
AWB's approach to safety is based upon consultation, learning and continual improvement. Our objectives are to:
- Provide safe plant 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 AWB policy, procedures, safety rules and safe work methods.
- Provide a structured Injury Management and Rehabilitation program to injured employees to assist rehabilitation and return to work.
- Ensuring that all work activities are carried out by competent, 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 via 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 polices 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 AWB operations and functions including those situations where employees are required to work off site.
Consultation
AWB is committed to consultation and cooperation between management and employees. AWB 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.
Andrew Lindberg
Managing Director
AWB Limited
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