Occupational Health Safety & Rehabilitation Policy

 SCE Group is committed to ensuring a safe and healthy work environment for all personnel, and believes that all work related injuries, diseases and associated losses are preventable, and there is no more important function in the undertaking of everyone's responsibilities within the Company than the prevention of injury and ill health.

We will achieve this by –

·          A commitment to comply with Occupational Health & Safety legislation and other relevant standards
·          Operating with a Management System that is certified to AS/NZS 4801:2001
·          Being an industry leader in workplace health and safety with Occupational Health Safety & Rehabilitation seen as a core “Organisational Value”
·          Consulting with and engaging our employees to achieve improved Occupational Health Safety & Rehabilitation performance.
·          Ensuring employees, contractors and others are informed of and understand their obligations.
·          Maintaining effective OHS&R systems and procedures that ensure workplace hazards are identified, their risks assessed and controlled (hazards eliminated or risks reduced).
·          Providing ongoing training to meet Occupational Health Safety & Rehabilitation and operational requirements.
·          Providing rehabilitation to ensure injured employees have the opportunity to return to their pre-injury duties where possible. Each Division's Safety Officer is the nominated Return to Work Coordinator.

Responsibilities –  “whilst Occupational Health & Safety is everyone’s responsibility”

·          The Managing Director is ultimately responsible and accountable for Occupational Health, Safety & Rehabilitation.

·          Divisional Management is responsible for establishing management systems, safe systems and methods of work that ensure the health and safety of persons at work

·          Divisional Management is responsible for establishing an injury management program that provides early intervention and rehabilitation of the injured worker.

·          Managers are responsible for establishing and maintaining hazards registers, risk assessments for activities, processes and assets, and the establishment and monitoring of audit, review and inspection schedules within their business unit.

·          Supervisors/Superintendents are responsible for conditions and work practices under their control and for providing leadership to implement, monitor and review the Occupational Health Safety & Rehabilitation in their workplace.

·          Supervisors/Superintendents are responsible to assess and monitor employee and contractor competencies of work performance, and intervene where necessary.

·          Employees and contractors are responsible for ensuring their own health and safety by adhering to safe systems and methods of work and complying with documented procedures/instruction, and for supporting Occupational Health Safety & Rehabilitation in their workplace.

·          Employees and contractors are required to report without delay any incidents/accidents, first aid injuries, dangerous occurrences, environmental incident, damage to plant & equipment or property that is the result of a work related activity.

·         The workplace consultative committee is empowered by the Managing Director to review Occupational Health and Safety incidents and to make recommendations to prevent a recurrence.  This committee has the important role of “Championing” the pursuit of zero harm. 

R. Newman
Managing Director
June 2, 2010