General Statement of Health and Safety Principles

The purpose of Core Projects Ltd Health and Safety Policy and Management System is to establish an inclusive framework that enables health and safety tasks to be fully integrated and implemented as part of the Company’s routine tasks and operations.  In this way health and safety management will become a business tool that controls risk and loss throughout the Company’s operations.  This will enable staff to implement health and safety tasks so that each contribution cumulatively adds value to the project and business.

Core Projects Ltd and its staff are fully committed to efficiently managing safety in an attempt to achieve zero reportable accidents and the progressive control of risk and losses.  This attitude will also add to the finished product by the minimisation of waste by risk management techniques.  

Core Project Ltd’s staff and appointed contractors will together assess and manage risk not only during their own and immediate work, but consider any risk and loss implications of their actions on others working on a project.  In this way health and safety ceases to be a set of prescriptive and constraining working practices but part of the quality driven management agenda, drawing on the professionalism and the communication process within and between all those working on a project.

Core Project Ltd understands that health and safety management is primarily about avoiding accidents, which are unplanned events characterised by loss of management control.  Therefore successful health and safety management within Core Projects Ltd will be defined by its contribution to getting it right first time, on budget and triggering innovation for the benefit of the end user and adding value to the business.  It should also have a primary role in enabling efficiency by stripping out waste during procurement and construction activities.

The principal objective of health and safety management within Core Projects Ltd is to prevent accidents and ill health in the workplace. This involves the creation and maintenance of safe working environments as well as the promotion and encouragement of employee safe behaviour.  To achieve this Core Projects Ltd has an auditable health and safety management system fully integrated with the way the Company undertakes its business.  

Health & Safety Policy Statement

Core Projects Ltd understands the requirements and responsibilities associated with the successful management of health and safety throughout the Company.  The Company also acknowledge the priority for establishing and maintaining health and safety to agreed standards.  To meet these responsibilities Core Projects Ltd has developed a Health and Safety Policy and Management System and allocated sufficient resources to achieve the following objectives:

1. Full compliance with the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 and all Regulations made under this Act in particular The Management of Health & Safety at Work Regulations and the Construction (Design & Management) Regulations

2. The provision and maintenance of plant, equipment and systems of work that are safe and without risk to health to its employees and any other relevant persons

3. Arrangements for ensuring safety and absence of risks to health in connection with the use, handling, storage and transport of materials, articles and substances

4. The provision of such information, instruction, training and supervision as is necessary to ensure the health and safety of all employees and any others who may be affected

5. The maintenance of any place of work under Core Project Ltd’s control in a condition that is safe and without risks to safety and health along with the provision and maintenance of safe access and egress from places of work

6. The provision of adequate facilities for welfare, first aid, fire prevention, PPE, occupational health and hygiene.

7. The assessment and the provision of human and material resources that will enable the sustained management of risk and the provision of high quality health, safety and environmental management.

8. A fully integrated safety management system that assesses risks and hazards then implements control measures that are routinely inspected and monitored with any identified corrective actions carried out within a given time period.

9. Identify safety tasks, functions and responsibilities and then clearly allocate these to staff that have been suitably trained to carry out the identified safety tasks

10. The establishment of a comprehensive health & safety audit system that will analysed the Company’s safety performance at least once every year & then set targets for improvement or change

11. The appointment of competent safety advisors that will support the company in its provision of safety requirements and advise on matters to enable the review and continuous improvement of safety performance

Core Projects Ltd Safety Management System in addition to providing the means for complying with legal requirements also has a contribution to make in the general management of risk and improving business performance.