Occupational safety and health policy
Improving our safety culture is the responsibility of every one of us and we all have a contribution that we can make. Every incident is avoidable and by working together we will protect ourselves and others.
We are committed to ensuring:
our employees are safe during each working day
our employees can work safely in support of our clients and the public
our employees know we will not compromise their safety and health, and
we continually work on improving our safety culture and safety performance.
To meet these challenges we will establish a safety culture where we:
all proactively identify hazards
minimise the risk to our employees and company visitors, and
learn from incidents to prevent re-occurrence.
Our employees face differing safety and health risks on Lloyd’s Register Group members’ sites, client sites, third party sites and whilst travelling around the world. The scale of those risks varies enormously. We are committed to ensuring individuals are trained to recognise risks and how to deal with them.
We will develop and maintain a world-class safety culture where every one of our employees understands how to take responsibility for their own safety and how to keep those around them safe. We will support our culture with robust procedures, instructions, training and competency programmes and we will meet or exceed the applicable safety and health legal obligations where we operate. We will work with our clients and those responsible for third party sites to help improve the safety and health of our employees and theirs.
Line managers have responsibility and accountability for eliminating and minimising safety and health risks for our employees and visitors. All employees have the authority to stop work if they believe their safety or health is being compromised and our line managers will support them if they take these decisions.
From the Chief Executive Officer, and throughout the whole organisation, we expect everyone to take a lead in improving safety by setting a positive example and to intervene when seeing an unacceptable safety or health risk. All employees have a responsibility to report health and safety incidents and therefore contribute towards their prevention. In addition to management and individual safety training, we will maintain a global safety team to provide local support and advice to our managers and employees.
To protect our employees and visitors, our own premises will be managed to reflect the high safety and health standards that we expect from others. Our employees will only work on client and third party worksites that are considered safe. Employees will be provided with appropriate personal protective equipment necessary to perform their work and mitigate residual risk.
Improving our safety culture is the responsibility of every one of us and we all have a contribution that we can make. Every incident is avoidable and by working together we will protect ourselves and others.