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| Safety Policy |
It is the responsibility of every Manager
and Executive to ensure that operations are carried out safely preventing
injury to persons and damage to property. The company is committed
to providing a safe working environment and will make available the
necessary resources for the purpose. Every employee of the company
will be educated, trained, encouraged and motivated to implement this
policy on safety.
Madura Coats regards the promotion of health and safety as a common
objective for Management and Employees at all levels and is committed
to ensuring the health and safety at work of all Employees and of
other persons who may be impacted by the operations of the company.
The company will :
- provide and maintain plant and system
of work that are safe and without risk to health.
- make suitable arrangement for ensuring
safety and absence of risk to health, in connection with
the use, handling, storage and transport of articles and
substances
- maintain all places of work in a condition
that is safe and without risk to health, in particular the
provision of safe means of access to, and egress from, all
such workplaces.
- provide and maintain a working environment
that is safe, without risk to health and adequate as regards
facilities and arrangments for the welfare of employees
at work.
- provide safety equipment necessary to
ensure the health and safety of employees where it is not
reasonably practical to eliminate the hazard at source and
train employees in the use of such equipment.
- instruct all employees that personal
protective equipment, machine guards and safe systems of
work once provided will be used and ensure through effective
supervision that their use is maintained.
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It is acceped that training can contribute
significantly to the setting and maintenance of proper health and
safety standards.
Communication and consultation at all levels in the organisation will
take place to ensure that health and safety standards aremaintained
and improvedwhere considered necessary.
The company will review on a regular basis reports on helath and safety
matters and monitor the performance of all units in the company. Managers
of units where the accident frequency is high, or where there is a
single serious incident will be expected to provide a full report
and explanation as well as a specific action plan to ensure avoidance
of the accident or incident in future.
The company will ensure tha this policy statement is regularly reviewed
and amended as necessary, in order to meet changing conditions.
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