Urson Contracting recognises its moral and legal responsibilities, in particular to the Occupational Health and Safety Legislation, to provide a safe and healthy work environment for employees, contractors, customers and visitors. This commitment extends to ensuring the organisation’s operations do not place the local community at risk of injury or illness.

OBJECTIVES

The policy aims to:

  • Provide safe plant and systems of work
  • Provide written procedures and instruction to ensure safe systems of work are implemented
  • Ensure compliance with legislative requirements and current “state of knowledge” standards
  • Provide employees, contractors and customers with regular information, instruction, training, and supervision to ensure their safety
  • Provide support mechanisms which will assist employees with maintaining or improving their psychological and physical health
  • Provide a framework for continual improvement in performance.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Urson Contracting recognises that management have the overall responsibility to provide a safe workplace. Each management representative will be held accountable for implementing this policy in their area of responsibility via their annual performance reviews. These responsibilities broadly encompass:

  • Facilitating a culture that enables continuous improvement in OHS performance
  • Providing and maintaining the workplace in a safe condition
  • Ensuring all OHS policies and procedures are implemented
  • Actively promoting and being involved in those policies and procedures
  • Providing the resources to meet their OHS commitment. Employees will ensure that they:
  • Follow all OHS policies and procedures
  • Report all hazards to their supervisor
  • Ensure their own safety, the safety of fellow employees and all persons on the worksite.
  1. To provide an ongoing healthy and safe workplace, Urson Contracting and its managers will, so far as is reasonably practicable, ensure:
    • the provision and maintenance of a work environment without risks to health and safety;
    • the provision and maintenance of safe plant and structures;
    • the provision and maintenance of safe systems of work;
    • the safe use, handling and storage of plant, structures and substances;
    • the provision of adequate facilities for the welfare at work or workers in carrying out work for Urson Contracting, including ensuring access to those facilities;
    • the provision of any information, training, instruction or supervision that is necessary to protect all persons from risks to their health and safety arising. from work carried out as part of the conduct of the business or undertaking; and
  1. That the health of workers and the conditions at the workplace are monitored for the purpose of preventing illness or injury of workers arising from the conduct of Urson Contracting.