General Statement
- The Health & Safety of all our
employees is of paramount importance to Offshore Handling Systems
Ltd, as is the safety of our clients, customers, contractors and
visitors and members of the public with whom the operations of the
company may come in contact.
- This Policy Statement will be
reviewed by senior management at least once every year, and at any
point during the period if there have been any changes in Health,
Safety and Environmental legislation, or if the Directors and
Management feel that the Company’s responsibilities and objectives
should be changed or redefined.
- The senior person responsible for
Health and Safety within Offshore Handling Systems is the Chief
Executive Officer.
- The Health and Safety advisor of
Offshore Handling Systems Ltd. is the Office Manager.
Legal Obligations
- Offshore Handling
Systems Ltd recognises the legal obligations placed on it by the
Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Acts 2005 and 2010, and other
Statutory Legislation, as may be applicable to our undertaking.
- Our Health and Safety
documentation and records are kept at our Head Office premises and
on our internal server and are freely accessible to all employees,
and available upon request to all sub-contractors, visitors and
members of the public and other person(s) who may be affected by our
operations.
- Employees are encouraged to ask
questions on any Health and Safety related matter, raising these
initially with the Health and Safety manager. It is a positive duty
of all employees to voice any concerns or anxieties that they may
have about the Company’s Health and Safety practices.
Company
Responsibilities
-
Offshore Handling Systems Ltd will ensure, so far as is reasonably
practicable, the Health and Safety and Welfare at work of all
employees and adhere to the Safety , Health and Welfare at Work Acts
2005 and 2010.
- Offshore Handling
Systems Ltd will show commitment to additional requirements set out
in the Safety , Health and Welfare at Work Acts 2005 and 2010
- Carrying out
suitable and sufficient written risk assessments.
- Putting in place
and recording effective arrangements for the planning,
organization, control, monitoring and review of health and safety
measures in the workplace.
- Employing competent
persons to help comply with health and safety duties.
- Developing suitable
emergency procedures and ensuring that all employees are made aware
of these procedures and how they should be applied.
- Providing health
and safety information to employees and others who are sharing the
same workplace such as sub–contractors.
- Providing health
and safety information for any young person’s working with
Offshore Handling Systems Ltd on work experience.
- Cooperating in
health and safety matters with other employees who share a
workplace.
- Providing employees
with adequate and relevant health and safety training.
- Providing any
temporary workers with adequate health and safety information.
- Protecting new and
expectant mothers and young persons from particular risks.
- Under certain
circumstances, providing health surveillance for employees.
Offshore Handling Systems
Ltd so ensure to safeguard those not in their employment but who are
affected by the undertaking of the company. This includes members of
the public, clients, sub-contractors, visitors and students.
- The company will
ensure that adequate financial resources are identified and made
available with regards to health and safety and to invest in the
training of its employees.
- This policy document
explains in broad terms what must be done by everyone within
Offshore Handling Systems Ltd to achieve the objectives. Its aim is
to provide a sound basis for the co-operation between management and
employees, and is intended to encourage continuous improvements of
our Health, Safety and Environmental performances
Employees Duties
The Offshore Handling
Systems Ltd Contractors employee’s duties are:
- To take reasonable
care for the health and safety of themselves and others affected by
their acts or omissions.
- To cooperate with
the employer and others to enable them to fulfil their legal
obligations.
- Offshore Handling
Systems Ltd To use any equipment or substance in accordance with any
training or instruction given by.
- To report to
Offshore Handling Systems Ltd. any serious or imminent danger.
- To report any
shortcomings in the employer’s protective health and safety
arrangements.
Organisation
- The principal hazards of the
company are physical hazards, excavations, working at heights and
the maintenance and use of work equipment. Suitable and sufficient
training will be given to employees to reduce the risk of these
hazards and health and safety audits will be carried out across the
company to aid the reduction of hazards.
- Offshore Handling Systems Ltd have
set specific performance targets for the immediate and long term
future which must be addressed by all employees of:
- An increase in the reporting of
the minor accidents and ‘near miss’ incidents occurring within
the Company.
- An increase in the carried out
externally or in house of the employees in health and safety
related topics e.g Manual Handling and working at heights.
-
Chief Executive Officer, Offshore
Handling Systems Ltd
