SJE are committed to achieving, maintaining and improving a culture of health and safety best practice in all aspects of our operations, thereby ensuring that the highest standard of H&S management is present at all times. As a company we recognise our responsibility to ensure that we comply with and, where possible, surpass all statutory safety legislation and legal requirements.
We also understand our part to be played in making our operations as safe as practicably possible for all our employees, subcontractors and any other persons affected by our activities.
Over the last 15 years, and with the help of our external Health and Safety consultants and main contractor clients, we have developed a health and safety matrix which we constantly strive to update and improve. This Matrix is a crucial tool in providing a monitoring and reviewing system for the management of health and safety within the company structure, which in turn allows us to implement the following standards within our operations: |
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Systems of Training
Providing all SJE Employees and subcontractors with the necessary training, equipment and expertise to operate in a safe working manner and environment. Scheduling, implementing and continually monitoring all future training requirements.
Communication
Direct and indirect interaction with all employees and subcontractors in all aspects of Health and Safety including encouraging feedback from all levels of staff and operatives.
Compliance
Ensuring all documentation and policy is compliant with the latest Health & Safety requirements and legislation.
Identifying Risk
Putting safe working systems in place to assess, control, monitor and reduce the levels of risk and/or exposure to all staff and operatives in the workplace.
Competency
Ensuring all Management and Supervisors are fully trained in Health & Safety procedures and requirements, and that they have the ability to effectively communicate these to all staff and operatives. Our Directors and Site managers are trained to a minimum of the CITB 5 day SMSTS course in construction site safety and have achieved Level 4 NVQ in Site Management.
Monitoring
Collecting, analysing and reporting of all information regarding Health and Safety incidents, near misses and accidents.
Reviewing
The management of Health and safety systems within the company.
Reporting
Measuring Health and Safety performance using established key performance indicators in conjunction with feedback from Managers, ensuring these findings are reported back to the Company Directors.
Auditing
Regular auditing of the Health & Safety systems on our sites, in our offices and of our overall policy by our external safety advisors and members of senior management.
Testing
Providing equipment for the PAT testing of all tools, plant and machinery used within the company.
CHAS Accreditation
SJE have again achieved full CHAS Safety Accreditation, our certificate can be downloaded.
SMSTS (Site Management Safety Training Scheme)
The following managers have NVQ Level 4 in Site Management and have the SMSTS 5 Day Accreditation: Mark Wilson, Steve Crease, John Paul Low, Karl Jouan, Kevin Roche, Mark Wilson, Simon Allen, Tony Noto and Alex Wallbank.
OHSAS 18001
Ensuring that all of the above contribute to and are compatible with SJE achieving full OHSAS 18001 compliancy by June 2011.
Environmental
SJE are currently working on achieving BS EN ISO 14001 Environmental and hope to be fully compliant by June 2011. Quality
We are currently working to achieve BS EN ISO 9002 quality assurance compliance by June 2011.
statement of intent
The Health, Safety and Welfare of employees is of prime importance to SJE and is essential to the efficient operation of its undertaking.
The responsibility of safety at work rests upon all sectors of management. SJE will ensure that this policy is pursued throughout the organisation and will take all reasonably practicable precautions to ensure the Health, Safety and Welfare at work of its employees by providing:
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A safe and healthy working environment by the design, construction, operation and maintenance of all equipment and facilities, including welfare. |
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Safe systems of work. |
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Adequate control for the storage, use and transportation of hazardous articles and substances |
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Adequate information, instruction, training and supervision. |
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Control of situations likely to cause injury or damage to property and/or equipment. |
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Effective facilities for the treatment of injuries that occur at work. |
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Effective fire prevention and fire control procedures. |
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Adequate facilities for consultation between management and employee representatives. |
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Sufficient tests, examinations, samples and records as are necessary to monitor the working environment. |
All employees of the company agree, as a term of their contract of employment, to comply with their individual duties under section 7 & 8 of The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, Regulation 14 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, and generally co-operate with their employer so as to enable them to carry out their Health and Safety duties towards them. Failure to comply with Health and Safety duties, regulations, procedures and work rules on the part of the employee, can lead to dismissal from employment. In the cases of serious or repeated breaches, such dismissal may be instant and without prior warning.
The overall responsibility for Health, Safety and Welfare of the company and its personnel is vested in the Managing Director(s).
SJE will give full backing to this policy and to the nominated Safety Manager (whose function it shall be to monitor and operate the policy), and will support all those who endeavour to carry it out.
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