An Overriding Commitment to Safety
DeltaSBD employs a proactive approach to safety. We believe that all incidents can be prevented and strive to achieve zero lost time injuries and a 25 percent improvement in our overall safety performance each year.
The DeltaSBD Safety, Health and Environmental Management Plan (SHEMP) requires that:
- All DeltaSBD personnel undertake a DeltaSBD induction at the commencement of their employment - a key part of this induction focuses on safety obligations, rules and procedures, personal hazard management and detailed work hazard management;
- An enhanced recruitment, induction and training scheme for inexperienced personnel be undertaken;
- A refresher induction for all employees is undertaken every six months;
- Further inductions are undertaken for supervisors and managers; and
- Audits are undertaken to ensure compliance.
In further pursuit of excellence in safety management, DeltaSBD is currently:
- Introducing safety attitude testing as part of our recruitment process;
- Mapping the new legislative requirements to DeltaSBD’s SHEMP so that, if required, any inadequacies or issues can be identified and actioned; and
- Obtaining certification for our SHEMP to the relevant Australian Standard.
Project specific risk assessments are undertaken for each project as part of DeltaSBD’s site mobilisation and behaviour based safety observations, task analysis, communication sessions, reporting and safety audits are regularly used.
Project Managers and supervisors are required to participate in OH&S activities including:
- Competency testing;
- Toolbox talks;
- Accident and incident investigations;
- Rehabilitation;
- Managing work performance of employees – fitness for work, fatigue management etc; and
- Workplace inspections and audits.
