The Company’s Policy is to ensure the Health, Safety and Welfare of everyone engaged in, or affected by its activities before, during and following the Design and Construction process in particular it emphasises the needs to assess Risks before Health is damaged and before accidents occur thus leading to a safer system of working.
The Company will through its senior management meet its obligations by planning, monitoring and reviewing all aspects of Health and Safety and will impose these obligations on all its employees.
The Company is committed to fulfil its duties as laid out in legislation, to monitor its performance, and to act upon any findings in order to improve the Health and Safety performance of the Company.
It is the Companys principal aim to manage safe and efficient contracts, which not only meets with the requirements of all Health and Safety matters but also provides an acceptable level of objectives in relation to business needs.
Every member of the Company is responsible for the implementation of the Companys
Health and Safety Policy, the requirements of the Health and Safety At Work Act 1974
and the Construction’ Design And Management Regulations 1994.
Senior Management will be responsible for providing all levels of Management with all new Health and Safety legislation, they will make sure that through its distribution, discussions. and findings it is fed back into the Health and Safety Policy and into other Health and Safety systems and conveyed to the work place.
C.J. O’Shea will recognise and encourage the involvement of all its employees in the discussion of Health and Safety matters this will also include the setting up of arrangements with duly appointed Safety Representatives.
The Company, through its Senior Management, will ensure the allocation of adequate resources from tender stage through to completion, to promote a safe and healthy working environment and the protection of its employees against accidents.
The Company will ensure the competency of all its employees by their qualifications, their trade references and where necessary provide suitable and sufficient training in order to carry out their duties in a Health and Safety manner.
The Company will through ‘its association with Industry Federations, Manufacturers, Designers, Engineers and the Group Safety Manager seek all the necessary specialist advice required to.carry out their works and to pass on this information to the work place, and establish a system for checking that all activities are being carricd out in conformity with specialist advice and Code of Practice.
The Safety Department along with the Senior Site Management will hold 6 monthly Safety Meetings to discuss all new Health and Safety Legislation. They will plan out how to adopt and implement all new legislation into the Companys Safety Policy and to organise monitoring and reviewing of its application throughout the Company.
The Managing Director assumes overall responsibility for the formulating and implementing of this Safety Policy.
