Our Policies
General | Hazard Identification & Management | Training | Safety | Reporting
General Policy Statement
Here at WH Kelly, Drainage Contractors based in Tauranga, we pride ourselves on our continued commitment to Health and Safety.
We have held secondary level accreditation with ACC's Workplace Safety Management Practices (WSMP) since January 2009. We are on target to obtain Tertiary accreditation by 2012. View our WSMP Certificate or you can view our Health and Safety Policy (PDF) here.
Our company continues to ensure we maintain a safe and healthy working environment by taking the following steps:
- Provide a safe place of work, safe equipment, PPE, and proper materials.
- Establish and insist that all safe work practices are adhered to at all times.
- Provide regular supervision, induction, and training.
- Provide regular site inspections.
- Provide a hazard identification register.
- Provide emergency procedures. View sample
- Provide opportunities for staff involvement in Health and Safety decisions.
- Here at WH Kelly we hold weekly Tool box meetings and regular Health and Safety Staff Meetings.
- Ensure all staff understand and accept their responsibility to promote and maintain our company Health and Safety programme.
- Ensure all subcontractors who work on our Drainage Contracting sites understand their responsibilities to maintain a safe and healthy place of work.
All employees and contractors are expected to report any unsafe work practices or equipment to the WH Kelly Site Supervisor immediately and followed up with contacting our WH Kelly management.
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Hazard Identification and Management
This is the main component of our Health and Safety programme. We have a company hazard register that is reviewed regularly and refreshed with staff annually. This is readily available to all staff as a copy is held in the company vehicle manual. The hazards that have been identified have been through the process of
- Eliminate: Can it be eliminated?
- Isolate: If not can it be isolated?
- Minimise If not how can it be minimsed?
Our site foreman has a site specific hazard form given to them to complete for every job. This form consists of the generic hazards relating to drain laying but provides for any new hazards to be registered and controlled.
The site foreman is responsible for carrying out any other site hazard management ie: subcontractor induction, site tool box meetings where applicable.
WH Kelly Drainage Contractors have identified specific hazards which require company emergency procedures. These are regularly reviewed and refreshed with all staff and are readily available in the company vehicle manual to assist at the time of an incident happening.
Training & Induction
Your Drainage Contractors, W H Kelly, are committed to ensuring all employees are competent and sufficiently trained to carry out their duties. All new employees complete a full company induction before commencing employment with W H Kelly Drainage Contractors.
Any inexperienced employees are supervised by fully trained experienced drain layers until they are competent to work alone. Annually our management team carries out employee competency assessments.
You can view our Training Records PDF Version here
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Site Specific Safety Plan
W H Kelly Drainage Contractors provide Site Specific Safety Plans for all our sites. Each foreman must complete this form at the commencement of work on site and is responsible for identifying all the site hazards. You can view our Site Hazard ID Plan here
The Site Specific Safety Plan outlines the following:
- Site details
- Contact details for the Site foreman
- Specific hazards and controls for the site
Recording and Reporting
Here at WH Kelly Drainage Contractors we will continue to be committed to ensuring there is suitable reporting of all hazards and any incidents on each of our work sites. Our management endeavors to request all relevant safety information from service providers to ensure employees know where service cables are located. We remain committed to providing a process to investigate any incident that may take place, and discuss all incidents at the next company health and safety meeting to allow all employees the opportunity to gain experience. See our Incident Report Form - Incidents and Near Misses
Refreshers of all company emergency procedures are carried out at regular intervals. WH Kelly Drainage Contractors continues to be aware of their responsibility to the Department of Labour and reports any notifiable work being carried out by W H Kelly. Serious harm incidents are reported promptly.