Occupational Health & Safety Policy

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All leaders are accountable for Health and safety at workplace and must:

• Establish an effective health and safety management system at workplace including the appointment of committees, competent managers

• Establish effective consultation and communication mechanisms with workers and their representatives for gathering employee concerns/inputs and improvement of safety culture

• Provide appropriate, meaningful & effective training and information

• Recognize health and safety concerns and manage/control risks at their location

• Establish and monitor health and safety improvement targets, including evaluation of the management system's efficacy and sufficiency

• Report mandatory Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) via relevant reporting system

• Report all incidents, accidents, and near misses in accordance with reporting requirements, including thorough investigation, follow-up, and communication of lessons learned

• Maintain, communicate, and test both site and role specific emergency plans

• Comply with the applicable legal and other requirements

• Continually improve the performance of the OHS management system, set up priorities and action plans for improvement of the safety performance

All employees must:

• Work safely and appropriately in accordance with defined SOPs.

• Adhere to health and safety procedures and directives that are applicable to their work and/or to which they have been taught or alerted

• Assist team leaders in ensuring that everyone at workplace including contractors and visitors, are aware of and adhere to appropriate health and safety guidelines

• Undertake only tasks for which they are trained, medically fit and sufficiently aware

• Ascertain that they understand emergency response plans at their workplace, on the road, or at a destination they are visiting for business

• Proactively report any incident or near-miss, sickness, dangerous or unhealthy condition, unsafe behaviour, spills or release of material into the environment, so that appropriate actions may be taken

And must not:

• Perform their respective jobs or associated activities, in an unsafe manner, or in violation of laid down procedures or while impaired by alcohol or drugs

• Continue doing any task that is hazardous or unhealthy.