Statement of HSE Commitment
Corex Health & Safety Management Arrangements
Corex management are committed to ensuring that all company activities, and the activities of its contractors, are undertaken in a safe manner and within the requirements of all safety and environmental legislation. To this end many arrangements have been introduced to assist the management and staff fulfil their health, safety and environmental responsibilities.
The Corex health and safety arrangements has been organised within the overall HSE management system. This system can broadly be summarised as:
- Commitment by Senior Management
- The HSE Committee
- Corex’s HSE Management System (Entropy)
- Communication Arrangements
Commitment By Senior Management
Senior management are responsible for producing and signing-off the Corex HSE policy This document sets out the companies HSE standards and commitments. A copy is attached on the CD.
The HSE Committee
The committee is made up of a senior management representative, a Core Division advisor and a Formation Damage division advisor. The structure of the meetings are as follows:
- Review of outstanding actions
- Core Division H&S
- FD Division H&S
- Review of accidents and incidents
- Review of health and safety records (Entropy)
- Review of HSE Purchase Req’s (Such purchases are priorities where necessary)
- Any other business
The findings from HSE Committee meetings are communicated to the staff via a notice board update and where necessary through direct contact with the relevant HSE advisors.
The Corex Health & Safety Management System (Entropy)
The Entropy HSE Management System has recently be implemented to assist the management (and staff) to undertake their HSE responsibilities. The system has been designed to:
- Provide full risk analysis of all operations and establish review frequencies
- Establish and document control measures (in mitigation of risks)
- Document the training need of all staff and establish review frequencies to ensure competence
- Provide an auditing system to ensure non-conformances are identified and actioned
- Provide a mechanism for recording all actions undertaken in respect of non-conformances identified. Full audit trail maintained.
- Provide HSE managers with a means of being informed when reviews and training assessments have lapsed
- Record all injury / incident details and report key performance figures
- Ensure all documentation is maintained to conform with HSE legislations
Further Details of the Entropy system are available at http://www.bsi-entropy.com
Health and Safety Arrangements for Risk Assessment
Corex employs many processes to identify and manage risks within the workplace. These include (but are not exclusively):
Annual Risk Assessment Review (Inc COSHH Assessments) – Each year the company Health & Safety Committee will review all current risk assessments and consider the requirement for additional risk assessments. The committee will review the scope of risks and the adequacy of the existing control measures. An ad-hoc assessment will be made whenever there is an introduction of new plant or a significant change in process. For all major works a ‘Task Specific’ risk assessment will be completed by the person in charge of the project. The committee will review all such risk assessments.
Review Of Accident and Incidents – All accidents and near miss accidents are recorded. An investigation is always undertaken by the H&S committee and supported by the relevant works managers. On completing the investigations, a review is made to ascertain if relevant Risk Assessments / control measures were adequate, or if new risk / controls should be introduced.
STOP Cards – Whenever any employee feels that an unsafe task is being undertaken, they may request work to stop immediately pending a review by a manager and/or the works H&S committee. All such incidents are recorded within the H&S committee minutes.
Workplace Audits – Are completed on a regular basis by competent individuals within the work place. Any non-conformance findings are recorded and actioned often resulting in a review of current risk assessments and control measures. Details of all audits (and subsequent actions undertaken) are maintained in the company H&S system (Entropy).
The following Risk Control Measures have been introduced within corex:
Safe Systems Of Work – Are often introduced as part of the control measures adopted to mitigate the risks identified during the review of Risk Assessments. For example, a safe system of work has been prepared for the use of the Core Bench Saw. All employees who use the saw are required to read, understand and sign the Safe System of Work.
Competence Assurance – Corex is in the process of formalising a competence assurance programme where individuals will be reviewed on the use of certain equipment at regular defined period. The ‘Master Trainer’ will be responsible for undertaking the review. Details of the review will be recorded on the company H&S system (Entropy). All training records are maintained to complement the overall competence assurance programme.
Surveillance – The company monitors several environmental hazards which have been identified in risk assessments. All details are recorded in the company H&S system (Entropy). Current surveillance includes:
- Vapours (Xylene, Methanol, Styrene etc.)
- Ventilation (Visual and Calculated Air Flow)
- Noise (Specific Source Assessments and Employee TWA (8 hrs))
- Mercury (Urine Testing)
Portable Appliance Testing – In line with legislation, all electrical / portable appliances are electrically inspected every twelve months to ascertain if they are fit for purpose. A SSOW for the use of portable appliances has also been prepare which requires all staff to visually assess equipment prior to each use and report fault equipment to management immediately. This supports requirements of the PUWER regulations.
Other Risk control measures include:
- Manual Handling Assessments
- PPE Assessments
- Lift Equipment Assessments
- Display Screen Assessments
- First Aid Provision Assessment
- Fire Alarm Safety Checks
Details of Corex Risk Assessments
Please see Table 1A attached. This table contains details of major Corex Risk Assessments and the control measures employed to mitigate risks identified. A screen shot of the corex risk management process is also contained within the Entropy support documentation. A folder containing examples of risk assessments (and including the risk assessments pertaining to this tender document) are contained on the CD.
HSE Plan
Corex undertakes to provide a fully documented QHSE plan on award of the contract, specific to the individual needs of the client and the contact nature. A copy of this plan will be provided to the client within 7 days of the contract being awarded.
Training & Competence
The Entropy system has been developed to identify individual training needs for all staff. All staff are provided with general HSE induction prior to commencing any work within the company. Thereafter training is tailored to suit individual training needs. Training will cover relevant risk assessments, COSHH assessments Safe Systems of Work, training courses (both in-house and external) and key operational training. A training matrix is established for each employee and review dates are established to ensure that competence is maintained. The Entropy system will generate an action whenever a review date is approaching.
Incident and Performance Reporting
The Entropy system again how handles all incident reporting. An HS1 form is completed immediately when an incident occurs by the person who reported the incident or the relevant HSE advisor. Subsequently, a full investigation will be completed documenting the events leading to the incident, factors contributing to the incident and any corrective actions that are required. The corrective actions will be given a target date. The Entropy system will report to senior management of the actions are not completed within the allocated deadline.
Corex have not been issued with any regulatory enforcement in the last five years.
Corex has not had any serious environmental events attributable to the company’s activities in the last five years resulting in the involvement of SEPA and or any other environmental enforcement agency.