Health and Safety
Veolia Transport recognises and accepts its responsibility to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, safe and healthy working conditions for its employees and others. In addition to compliance with statutory requirements, we will seek proactively to prevent injury, damage, ill health and loss arising from our operations and activities.
Our recognition and acceptance of these responsibilities will be demonstrated by our commitment to:
- Provide and maintain plant, equipment and systems of work that are safe and without risk to health;
- Undertake risk assessments of all appropriate activities and to specify and implement resultant control measures in order to eliminate or control risk;
- Take all reasonably practicable steps to avoid injury or damage to property which might occur as a result of our operations and activities;
- Provide sufficient supervision, information, instruction and training to ensure the health and safety of employees and others who may be affected by our operations and activities;
- Clearly assign responsibility to appropriate personnel to monitor compliance to this policy and associated procedures and take action in default of such compliance;
- Regularly review and report on our health and safety performance, implementing any corrective action in respect of underperformance promptly;
- Ensure suitable arrangements for the handling, storage and transportation of substances safely are present and implemented;
- Display this policy statement at each company facility, ensuring that its content is brought to the attention of and is fully understood by all;
- Provide necessary and adequate resources, both financial and human, to ensure the full implementation of this policy;
- Review and revise our policy as necessary at regular intervals.
Veolia Transport encourages employees to cooperate in its health and safety aims and seeks to promote teamwork and partnership so that the aims of our policy will be met.
Last updated: 04/07/2007