Managing safety
Good safety performance isn’t a matter of chance. Maintaining a safe, healthy workplace requires proactive, effective management – and commitment from the top. We have network- and plant-safety committees around the world which make sure we have a consistent approach to managing safety, and share best practice around the Group. The key elements and activities of our approach include:
- Holding management to account for their leadership in preventing workplace injury/illness;
- Establishing safety policies that apply to all employees, contractors, visitors and customers;
- Providing systems to reduce and control risk as far as possible;
- Training employees in safe work practices and regulatory requirements;
- Including safety as the first topic of discussion at every business meeting;
- Continually monitoring leading/lagging indicators, safety performance and benchmarking both internally and externally;
- Having sufficient resources, including properly trained people, to make sure we always focus on improving performance;
- Establishing safety committees or networks that are representative of all functions at any given location;
- Reporting and investigating incidents, injuries, illnesses and near misses promptly and appropriately;
- Conducting audits, involving employees at every level, to identify unsafe behaviours and physical hazards and to implement corrective actions;
- Conducting employee safety perception surveys to recognize any safety issues that we can correct at our plants;
- Recognizing and rewarding outstanding safety performance through award schemes, and by marking significant milestones for both employees and contractors;
- Monitoring contractors to ensure corporate and regulatory safety standards are being followed rigorously at all sites.
