Safety standards and auditing
We introduced a set of minimum safety standards in 2000. The standards were developed to primarily address the principal causes of workplace fatalities and other significant incidents in the Group.
They comprise three overarching management standards and eight activity standards: isolation, electrical safety, vehicles and driving, working at heights, confined spaces, cranes and lifting equipment, working underground and molten materials handling. They were developed with input from an advisory panel of experienced operators, technicians, engineers and safety professionals drawn from all businesses and regions in the Group.
Businesses are audited on the implementation of the safety standards. These audits are conducted by a team of people made up of specially trained senior operational managers and safety professionals in the Group, led by professional safety auditors.
Following the audits the operations develop remedial action programmes that are monitored by the business managing director and the product group head and tracked by the Group's health, safety and environment department. The audit programme also shares best practice around the Group and facilitates networking between the managers and safety professionals participating in the audits.
Auditing of compliance in implementing the safety standards commenced in mid 2000. All of our operations have had two audits against our safety standards over the last four years. The third round of corporate safety audits commenced in Q4 2004 and will be completed during 2006.
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