Health & Safety Policy
Our Organisation is committed to a policy of effectively managing all aspects of health, safety and welfare at work, we strive to prevent harm or injury to any employee or person working for us or working on our behalf, or to any other person that may be affected by our operations either directly or indirectly.
This commitment extends to all workplaces, employees and others affected by our operations. The company operates a Health and Safety Management System that follows the guidance of HSG 65 with certification to BS EN 18001.
We recognise that achieving high standards of health and safety is an integral part of the business performance and, whilst all statutory provisions will be complied with as a minimum, the Company will take all reasonably practicable means to ensure continual improvement in health and safety performance by establishing appropriate objectives and improvement programmes.
The Managing Director has overall responsibility for health, safety and welfare and will ensure that such resources, facilities, finances, information, instruction, training and supervision are provided as is necessary to maintain a positive health and safety culture and performance.
Senior Management is responsible for the implementation of this policy and for ensuring risks to the health and safety of all are assessed and safe systems of work devised. Health and safety responsibilities have been defined for all personnel and are contained within the Company Organisation, Roles & Responsibility and Arrangement documents.
All employees and contractors are expected to co-operate with the implementation of this Policy and will ensure their own work, so far as is reasonably practicable, is carried out with minimum risk to themselves or others. Consultation with staff and operatives will be structured to ensure feedback is encouraged to continually improve safe systems of work.
The Policy will be displayed prominently at all workplaces. The organisation and implementation of the policy will also be available at all workplaces for reference by any employee as required.
The Health, Safety and Welfare Policy is continually being monitored and developed and will be formally reviewed annually, or at other times as required by statutory or regulatory change, work practices, other significant change or influence.
Environment Policy
Our Organisation recognises that its activities, products and services can cause impacts on the environment. The Organisation is committed to protecting the environment by minimising the impacts of our operations, we will continually strive to improve our environmental performance, meet our compliance obligations, and achieve our stated objectives.
As a company we aim to reduce our environmental impact through:
- Preventing pollution, minimising waste, seeking to recycle where economically practicable, and ensure appropriate disposal of the remainder.
- Ensuring where practicable use of sustainable resource.
- Protection of Bio Diversity and Eco systems.
- Endeavouring to control and reduce activities that contribute to climate change.
- Identifying and complying with all current statutory compliance obligations, other influencing requirements and taking steps to adhere to future legislative requirements.
- Providing information, instruction and training on environmental issues. Ensuring the implementation of appropriate environmental procedures by regular monitoring and improvement of performance.
- Determining objectives and targets and reviewing them at the regular Management Review Meetings.
Each individual employee of the company is expected to demonstrate a commitment to protect the environment through:
- Complying with the relevant environmental obligations and procedures which apply to their work activities.
- Preventing the release of environmentally damaging substances.
- Ensuring that all waste materials are disposed of in accordance with relevant procedures.
- Communicating to the company any information or initiatives likely to improve environmental performance.
- This policy statement will be reviewed by the Managing Director after any significant change or influence that may affect its content.
This Environmental Policy shall be communicated to all employees, contractors and suppliers working on our behalf. It is available to any interested party.
Quality Assurance Policy
Our organisation is committed to standards of service throughout the business that are intended to exceed our customer expectations. We operate our management system in accordance with the requirements of ISO 9001, best practice principles and with consideration of customer needs.
Our customers’ expectations are high and they demand the best from both our products and service, we aim to satisfy these requirements at all times. This is achieved through the efforts of every employee taking responsibility for the quality of their own work, establishing appropriate objectives, delivering these objectives which in turn drive continual improvement.
The overall objectives of the management system is to ensure we,
Provide consistent services and products that satisfy customer, statutory & regulatory requirements.
Ensure and enhance customer satisfaction.
Address risk and opportunity associated with business objectives.
Demonstrate conformity to QMS requirements.
To help us achieve these overall objectives improvement plans will be implemented in line with SMART principles whilst engaging the following recognised Quality Principles.
- Customer focus
- Leadership
- Engagement of people
- Process approach
- Improvement
- Evidence based decision making
- Relationship management
The management team will ensure that adequate resources (time, finance and personnel) are provided to deliver this policy. This demonstrates our commitment to our staff, customers and business success.
We are committed to the continual improvement of our business performance, management system and the requirements of ISO 9001. We will ensure our staff are, at all times, competent to deliver the service by ensuing their ongoing development through training and review.
The Quality Policy is published throughout the company to ensure it is fully understood by all members of staff. It is also available on request to any interested party and is subject to review periodically, or as a result of any significant change which may have an impact on the delivery of this policy.