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?. SABITA Health & Safety Seminar 2012. Much Asphalt is a Murray & Roberts company and 100% owned by M&R As an organization we strictly adhere to the M & R ethos of Health & Safety Today I would like to share with you:
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SABITA Health & Safety Seminar 2012 • Much Asphalt is a Murray & Roberts company and 100% owned by M&R • As an organization we strictly adhere to the M & R ethos of Health & Safety • Today I would like to share with you: • Some of the challenges we face on a daily basis and how we deal with these challenges with specific reference to: • How do we work and live safely? • Monitoring and reporting as a management tool • Progress regarding the DuPont Bradley Curve
Health and Safety as a journey • Over the years we have made good progress in installing a positive health and safety culture and we have significantly reduced the lost time injury rates nationally. • Safety is a journey and needs all the help from renowned organizations to apply proven best practices that will improve health and safety performance. • Western Cape LTIFR = 0
Challenges • How do we avoid accidents? • Can one predict human behaviour ? • How does human behaviour influence attitudes and actions • How do you instill good human behaviour? • How do you instill a sound health and safety culture?
Health and Safety Culture • After suffering a series of significant incidents in the workplace, we soon realised that we have not been able to adequately address key factors that underpin our health and safety performance and culture. • Cannot continue with same actions taken in the past • Drastic measures needed to be taken
Independent assessment of the Health and Safety Culture within Much Asphalt • The M & R Holdings board and DuPont Sustainable Solutions undertook a comprehensive assessment of the Group’s South African operations against best practices of safety management standards and to develop a set of improvement recommendations: • Safety Perception Survey • Safety Management Evaluation • Embarked on a journey to ZERO HARM
Journey to Zero Harm: What motivates you?? Injuries Team Building Team Commitment Development in Team Help Others Conform Value for Each Other Team Goals Personal Commitment Self-Managing Self-Discipline Self-Responsibility Personal Goals Care for Self Discipline/fear Rules Supervisory Control “I do it so none of us gets hurt” “I do it so I don’t get caught” “I do it so I don’t get hurt” Independentculture Interdependent culture Dependent culture Time Safety Culture
Progress on DuPont Bradley Curve • Evident that some of the employees are still in the dependent stage, while others are in the independent stage – great deal of overlapping • Means that some of the employees still need to given instructions • Quite a number of employees follow the SWP (Safe Work Procedure) • Monitoring of measures put in place
Challenge vs Solutions • Health and Safety Awareness Training • Bitsafe Training (bitumen decanting) • Hunt for Hazards (plant & offices) • Reporting all incidents & accidents • Investigating all accidents & incidents • 24 Hour Safety Alerts • Branches operating as little empires remained a challenge. • Made progress – gap between actual practice and the desired reality did not demonstrate the effort put into this campaign – moving from dependent to independent.
OHSAS 18001 • Much Asphalt then aspired to become OHSAS 18001 accredited. As an accredited member, all branches had to step up to the required standards and operate in this framework. • This provided a great sense of direction and uniformity among the branches – Same vision for everybody • All documentation was standardized • The implementation of a good Health and Safety Management System gave rise to new aspirations, greater heights, greater achievements that underpinned the Much Asphalt branding of: “….Together we can…”
The Health and Safety Management System Monitoring and reporting as a management tool – monthly reporting • Corporate & Branch specific objectives • Branch Management plan • Reporting on Near Misses (40-60 per month) • No blame policy • Added benefit visible felt leadership (VFL’s) • Branch Indicators (Target vs Actual) • Safety meetings / Invocoms / Wellness Talk • Planned Task Observations • Near Misses • LTIFR
Continuous Improvements To align ourselves to get to next level of excellence in Health and Safety • 10 FRCP (Fatal Risk Control Protocol) were introduced • Simple terms = 10 Life saving rules • Core values of Much Asphalt “…Together we can…” • Care - for our people • Act with Integrity – in all business dealings • Are Accountable – and taking responsibility for our actions • Respect - people’s differences treating them with dignity • Are Committed – to deliver on our promises
THANK YOU “…Together we can achieve ZERO HARM…”
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Safety Perception Survey (SPS) • A culture assessment survey that identifies key insights provided from a cross-section of the organisation from corporate office leadership to factory floor workforce. This is a self evaluation of the prevailing safety culture within the culture
Safety Management Evaluation (SME) • An assessment and data analysis process (which includes fieldwork, interviews and sight tours) designed to look at closely at the process by which each operating business current cultural safety and risk-based elements are managed. This rigorous process serves to help validate the SPS findings and offers a • complete picture of how our • organisational culture and risks.
