Health and Safety
Company management procedures are designed to integrate health & safety requirements with management of the business.
The team includes the company’s own dedicated health & safety officers, who, work closely with the people in the field to be on hand at all times, in addition to carrying out inspections and regular on-site and office based performance reviews.
Procedures are updated as required to incorporate best practice and current legislation.
The health & safety of all who work for the company or are affected by the company’s activities has the highest priority of all the issues which have to be managed effectively for the efficient delivery of completed projects. This is reflected in the company’s accreditation to ISO 9001:2008 and procedures consistent with the latest ISO 14001 environmental standards.
Accreditation under the Contractors Health & Safety Assessment Scheme (CHAS), Link-Up, Constructionline, Verify, Achilles and Exor all bear testimony to the prime objective of maintaining safe and healthy working conditions for all.
Behavioural Safety is the key strategy to monitor and reduce incidents in our work place. Many of the incidents and injuries on site are caused by people demonstrating unsafe behaviours and not because of faulty method statements or lack of procedures. In a lot of cases, when something goes wrong, the individuals involved could have prevented the incident by deciding on a different course of action. The objectives of the scheme are to raise our expectations for safety performance, showing leadership in injury prevention and gaining the skills to reduce injuries through workplace discussions. We have an ongoing programme to ensure that 100% of all Dyer & Butler personel are engaged and trained in this programme.
Dyer & Butler has cemented its health and safety reputation by reaching a milestone of two million man hours without a reportable accident.
With nine regional offices, we put health and safety at the top of our agenda and we are proud to report such a superb performance with a company wide zero accident frequency rate.
Dyer & Butler’s Safety Health Environment and Quality manager, Steve Broom, said: "Considering the range of projects that have been completed, many of which are in hazardous environments, or undertaken during the night, it’s a considerable achievement to pass two million hours without a reportable accident."
The hours have been clocked up since February 2008 averaging 506 directly employed personnel, 140 sub contractors, 59 sub contract labourers, covering over 115 projects. We credit our success to a cultural approach rather than procedural driven safety.
"Our accredited management systems are comparable with most other companies but the extra mile is reached through excellent communication between management which is translated through workforce commitment," concluded Mr Broom.
Dyer & Butler operate a behavioural safety programme, which is reinforced by mandatory five day safety training for all managers and supervisors, this is coupled with a dedicated safety management team which carry out site inspections to ensure that the winning formula is perfected.
We can now add this accolade to our recent success at the prestigious RoSPA Occupational Health and Safety Awards in which we were awarded a total of three gold awards.
David Rawlins, RoSPA awards manager said: "Dyer & Butler has shown a commitment to protecting the health and wellbeing of its employees and others. We hope other businesses and organisations will follow its lead and strive for continuous improvement and safety management."