Health And Safety Initiatives
Visible Felt Leadership (VFL)
We actively encourage all our employees to participate in improving health, safety and welfare standards by holding regular health and safety meetings throughout our company. these meetings allow a flow of information relating to safety matters that affect the employees working in the various functional areas.
Additionally, we have trained our directors, senior and middle managers to participate in a Visible Felt Leadership (VFL) programme of safety visits to all our production locations and contract sites. This programme was initiated following attendance at a HSENI Annual Lecture on the subject by Professor Peter McKie who impressed on the audience of Company Directors the need for them to show visible leadership in improving health and safety standards.
Our VFL programme is designed to raise safety awareness by being visible and felt, by recording and dealing with unsafe acts and safety suggestions we aim to improve our safety performance. It also allows consultation with our employees regarding their input into our controlled document system with respect to our procedures, risk assessments and safe work instructions.
2011 CRH Transport Initiative
The Division holds at least one safety initiative each year to highlight key health and safety issues. These have included contractor safety, preventing accidents, guarding of machinery .
This year a Transport initiative has commenced throughout the Division and consisted of a program of talks highlighting the dangers of moving plant and vehicles both on our fixed locations and contract sites. The talks encourage all employees to suggest improvements in their work locations that will eliminate or reduce the risk of accidents.
CRH Fundamentals and Safety Rules
Health and safety is an essential part of every role at Northstone Materials must be reflected at all times in employee behaviours.
Work related incidents are preventable and it is the right of every employee to go home well and free from injury at the end of each working day. The division aims to achieve zero lost time incidents.
The Division has been implementing the CRH Fatality Prevention Fundamentals and related Safety Rules rules which all employees are expected to commit to, in the interest of themselves and their colleagues. These Fundamentals are adhered to by all CRH Companies in the Europe Materials Division to eliminate the potiential for workplace fatalities.
CRH have also implemented an audit regime whereby Health and Safety professionals from one country audit the implementation and adherence to the Fundamentals at other CRH work locations across Europe.
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