Safety First

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Safety First

Queensland Water Supply holds the safety and wellbeing of persons under its control as a primary responsibility. We are uncompromising in our commitment to the health and safety of our employees, subcontractors, customers, and community. We continually improve our processes, demonstrate leadership, and promote comprehensive safety. We require individual accountability, expect all employees to adhere to our safety standards, and actively participate in and support the advancement of our health and safety practices. Safety is the responsibility of all employees, including both top management and the individual worker. Everyone is responsible for achieving zero accidents resulting in a SAFE working environment.

It is our policy to:

• Maintain a safe and healthy workplace for all employees in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations.
  
• Promote a positive attitude towards safety.
  
• Establish safety and health objectives for all levels of management and employees.
  
• Commit appropriate and sufficient resources to protect and support company safety efforts including providing technical support for our field crews.
  
• Provide management leadership and require all employees to take responsibility and ownership for safety, including bringing the attitude that “I am individually responsible for safety” to the job each and every day.
  
• Ensure that each employee understands that they have the obligation to stop a job/task to prevent an unsafe incident from occurring.
  
• Assure compliance with all company safety, health, and security programs and practices.
  
• To provide training to our employees to better educate them how to comply with those policies as well as promote a culture of continuous improvement and commitment to safety and training.
  
• Regularly review and evaluate safety, health, and security programs, procedures, and practices to assure that they are effective and up to date.
  
• Assure timely and thorough reporting and investigation of all incidents including the identification of causal factors and the establishment of effective corrective actions.
  
• Take a proactive approach at having our SWMS (Safe Work Method Statements) updated and relevant to the industry
  
• Regular Plant Hazard Risk Assessments are conducted on all water trucks
  

Fully insured including:

• Public Liability compliant
  
• QLD Work Cover