A safe pair of hands
The need to maintain a safe and healthy workforce is of utmost importance to MITIE and we continually strive to improve our health and safety performance.
We operate in many challenging environments and our people are exposed to a wide variety of workplace hazards posing varying degrees of risk. Therefore managing this risk via formal health and safety management systems is key to our approach in maintaining safe working environments for our people and improving our health and safety performance on a continual basis.
Our management systems based approach provides a structured programme to identifying hazards, assessing risk, implementing effective control measures and then reviewing performance to ensure that we are always improving. Our businesses certify their health and safety management systems against the requirements of an internationally recognised standard (OHSAS 18001), via an independent third party, to ensure that an objective view of our performance is undertaken and formal opportunities for improvement are identified.
We believe that health and safety accountability and responsibility begins at the top of the organisation and visible top down commitment is critical in ensuring our systems and standards for health and safety management are adhered to throughout MITIE. For this reason we focus on training all of our employees,at all levels throughout MITIE, to ensure that they have the required knowledge, competencies and skills to carry out their work in the right way. This year saw MITIE embark on a new approach to health and safety leadership that will, we believe, further embed the leadership skills of our senior managers and strongly support the significant level of operational training that we undertake every year.
What is our objective?
To demonstrate continual improvement in health and safety performance.
How are we going to achieve it?
- Develop a set of key performance indicators to improve health and safety performance measurement and management and implement across all MITIE divisions by April 2010;
- Develop health and safety related values and related standards to support MITIE’s corporate strategy, vision and values and implement across all MITIE divisions by April 2010;
- Deliver a health and safety leadership programme to 80 operational managers by April 2010;
- Review, revise and implement three key Group health and safety related training courses to secure key competencies, by April 2010.