The Health, Safety, Security and Environmental Policy Department (HSSE)

Every year people are killed and several thousand injured in the workplace as a result of accidents. Many more suffer death or permanent disability as a result of illness contracted at their place of work. The analysis of accidents shows that the vast majority are preventable if safe and healthy working practices and routines are followed:

It has been said that it is better to be safe than sorry, and whilst this is easy to say, the reality of it requires:-

• Structures and responsibilities within the JRCC e.g Health and Safety Committee, for ensuring the implementation and maintenance of health and safety standards;
• Every individual to take personal responsibility for their own their colleagues’ safety and health, being aware of potential hazards and acting to ensure they are eliminated, managed or avoided;
• Policies and guidance that explain what should and should not be done;
• Observance of procedures established to ensure work is conducted in a safe environment;

All incidents should be avoidable given forethought, and taking the appropriate actions or following the correct procedures.

The Health, Safety, Security and Environmental Policy gives all the essential guidance that is needed. Many of the recommended courses of action are required by law and must be observed, but in any case, they are mostly common sense. It is too late once an accident or ill-health has occurred.

The JRCC, though new in existence is obligated in so far as reasonably practicable apply safe working procedures, practices and conditions and to act in conformity with establish Health and Safety Legislation. The complement of the JRCC whether staff, visitor, contractors has a right to exist in a safe and healthy environment within its precincts and has a contribution to make towards this goal. It would therefore be burdensome to know that a colleague has been injured or suffered ill-health as a result of a hazard or situation that you had recognized or was you duty to have recognized but failed to act.