Health Safety and Environmental Policy Statement
The policy of NEV is to take all reasonable and practicable steps to plan for and promote healthy and safe working conditions for our employees and to ensure the health and safety of contractors, customers and the general public who are affected by our work activities.
NEV will not only comply with the statutory requirements but will proactively seek to prevent injury, ill health, damage and loss arising from its operations. We are committed to the protection and improvement of the environment in which we operate in accordance with the statutory or national requirements. We recognize that good health, safety and environmental performance is paramount and, therefore, will provide all necessary funding to carry out our activities to ensure that all risks are minimized by:
- Eliminating hazards, conditions and situations that give rise to potential accidents. Where this is not practicable, measures will be put in place to reduce these hazards to a manageable level.
- Training employees in safe working practices and ensuring that this knowledge is regularly updated.
- Providing a safe working environment which takes into consideration the necessary protection of employees with regard to access and egress, machinery, lighting, housekeeping, safe working procedures and safe use of substances etc. Where this is not possible or practicable then protective equipment will be provided to protect against the hazards identified.
- Providing adequate first aid and firefighting facilities, as well as accident prevention and health surveillance, to improve standards of safety and reduce accidents and lost time.
- Ensuring employees understand their duties under the health, safety and environmental legislation.
- Maintain the highest environmental standards of treatment, ensuring full compliance with existing legislation and to ensure that all employees are trained to the highest standards and kept abreast of new developments and changes in legislation.
Accident/Incident Reporting
All accidents and incidents (including dangerous occurrences and near misses) must be recorded and systems are in place to ensure that all accidents/incidents are properly reported and subject to an appropriate investigation. NEV prides in competent personnel who can carry out proper investigations to ensure that immediate and underlying causes of incidents are identified; corrective and preventive measures are identified; actions assigned, and followed up to ensure implementation. Accidents/incidents are brought to the attention of the appropriate level of management and the lessons learned are shared with other interested parties. Investigation findings feature in management system reviews where necessary and incident statistics/details are analysed and included in the improvement processes.
