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Clint White
HSE&P DIRECTOR
Principles
The Group continues to drive its overarching H&S standards which we believe supported the continual improvement in health and safety in 2024.
Core Risks
The Company continues to focus on its core risks:
• Contact with moving vehicles / objects
• Entrapment by machinery / moving parts
• Hit by suspended load / falling objects
• Falls from height
• Trapped by significant mass / energy
• Powders and COSHH material handling
Two primary areas of focus that have improved our control of core risks have been:
1. Serious Injury or Fatality (SIF) framework; and
2. Investigations.
SIF is the focus on events that could lead to Serious Injury or Fatality; in simple terms those events that cause or have the potential to cause life threatening / changing injuries. This work has been heavily developed in recent times and is seen to be the next evolution of well-grounded traditional H&S principles; driving the focus to those areas that are of the most serious nature. This has supported and aligns with our core risks and enables us to develop improved reporting to ensure action on those key areas.
The Group also maintains a strong focus on conducting detailed investigations, not only after an event has happened, but also before events happen. For example, through Bow Tie analysis, core risk events can be reviewed before they happen. This allows causes to be proactively identified so safety barriers can be implemented to mitigate routes to an adverse H&S event. On the flip side, the effects and consequences of the event are also proactively identified so safety barriers can be implemented to mitigate the impacts of such an event.
Post event investigation, including investigation on near hits, and externally publicised events both in our industry and beyond, is conducted. The level of investigation is proportional to the severity and seeks to review not just the event, but also organisation factors, task and environmental conditions, individual and team actions and absent or failed defences.
It is by these principles and through core risk management and investigation that the Group can act to continually deliver its year-on-year H&S improvement.
Front line leadership
We continue focus on front line leadership, with learning and development supported by programs such as NEBOSH and IOSH training for supervisor and front-line management.
Our boots on the ground program has been a significant contributor to our ongoing health and safety success. Front- line leaders are more visible in the business ensuring a continued improvement in the output of not only safety, but also quality and productivity.