The Osmose Safety Culture
At Osmose, we prefer to talk about our safety culture rather than our safety programme. A safety programme implies a set of rules that people are required to follow, often reluctantly. A safety culture implies that safety is a way of life at Osmose, and it absolutely is. It’s how we think and how we approach our jobs every day, not because that’s what is required, but because that’s who we are.
Safety is a condition of employment at Osmose. Over the past 20 years, we’ve worked diligently to establish a culture of safety by making safety an integral part of everything we do. As you’ll see in many of the statistics below, we’ve achieved excellent results and we’ll keep doing everything in our power to ensure this culture and our safety performance persist.
Safety Performance
- 21 of our crews have exceeded 100,000 safe hours. To put this achievement into perspective, that’s the equivalent of an individual working for 50 years without a recordable injury or chargeable vehicle claim (CVC).
- Though CVCs are not reportable, they are important to us. Driving is risky and it’s our single largest exposure with a global fleet logging more than 22 million miles each year. We typically experience a CVC only once every 500,000 miles – that’s like circumventing the globe 20 times without an accident.
We are committed to ensuring, as far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare of its employees and other persons who may be affected by our activities. Our ultimate objective is to create a health and safety culture that is embedded within the business where all risks are adequately controlled. The Company is committed to complying with the requirements of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and any other legislation or regulation that applies to the company’s’ business.
Health and safety management is integral to the culture of the company and is recognised as a key driver in achieving success in the business. The Company conducts its activities with the following objectives:
- Ensure business operations are undertaken in accordance with best practice procedures which reflect compliance with current statutory legislation.
- Meet our responsibilities as an employer to do all that is reasonably practicable to prevent incidents, injuries, and damage to health.
- Ensure the necessary resources are provided in relation to health and safety, including finance, equipment, personnel, and time.
- Provide and maintain safe working environments that are, so far as reasonably practicable, without risks to health, safety, and welfare.
- Ensure employees play an active part in the health and safety culture of the Company by consulting with them and providing them with adequate information, instruction, training, and supervision for them to understand their role within the Company and ensure they are competent to fulfil that role.
- Prepare and record risk assessments for all significant risks within the business.
- Ensure that all plant and equipment provided is maintained in a safe condition and is subject to routine and statutory inspections and examinations.
- In order to achieve our objectives and meet our legal duties we have access to competent advice.
- We will actively seek continuous improvement in our health and safety performance and management.
