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| Health, Safety, Environment and Security (HSES) |
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Ensuring the health, safety and security of our employees, our customers and the public – and protecting the environment are fundamental priorities for Cakasa. We uphold these values in the same way that we ensure the quality of our work – by implementing rigorous controls through every phase of our projects.
Safety is the responsibility of every employee at cakasa, and zero incidents is our foremost goal. In all our projects our trained personnel work to ensure the safety of themselves, their coworkers, the customer and the public.
Training is the key to preventing accidents and incidents. Our employees receive extensive training on how to perform their jobs safely, properly and in compliance with environmental regulations.
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| Cakasa’s Policy Statement on Community Affairs, Safety, Health, Environment and Security (CASHES) |
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In executing any project, our main objective is to operate in the most safe and economic manner without antagonising or alienating the local communities. This will be achieved by ensuring that all statutory and other relevant regulations relating to safety and welfare of our personnel that may be affected in the course of our work are paramount while maintaining excellent and mutually beneficial relationship with our host communities.
Cakasa also views with great concern the ecological implication of her job on the environment and the community inhabiting the work location. In order to prevent accidents and friction with the local communities, proper attitude to safety rules and community relationship are encouraged in all ramifications. Our overall objective is to ensure cordial relationship with host communities, prevent accidents which could otherwise result in pains, disabilities, damage to property (plant and equipment), death as well as damage to animal life within the environment in which we operate.
Thus, our community affairs, safety, health, environment and security (CASHES) programmes are designed to achieve the following:
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| Commitment to CASHES Policy |
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In principle, the prevention of all accidents and promotion of good community relationship will start with the active commitment of our Management and all our personnel to the following standards:
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- Follow approved codes of work especially with regard to the standards and codes applicable to our engineering, procurement, construction and maintenance jobs.
- Operate the Permit-To-Work System effectively such that operational hazards are identified at their early stages and addressed.
- Use safe tools - both electrically operated and manual tools will be of such standard that their potential to cause harm will be greatly reduced.
- Report unsafe acts, conditions and incidents before they cause accidents. Unsafe acts will include infringement on general health requirements with regard to the ecological implication of the job.
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The maintenance of high degree of personal health standards, on-and-off the job must be taken into account for each project. The areas to be addressed include:
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- Provision of potable drinking water and a constant drive to ensure that proper quality standards are adhered to.
- Following good feeding habit and the avoidance of harmful drugs and alcohol while in the company or client controlled area.
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The protection of the environment and efforts to get all staff to co-operate with such measures must continue for all projects and the following shall apply:
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- Advanced planning for the controlled generation and handling of waste products. Such products will be separated and appropriate action taken especially for toxic/radioactive wastes.
- Where it is inevitable to use chemicals the selection shall be such that toxic and dangerous chemicals are substituted with known mild or relatively safe substitutes. Importation and handling of chemicals shall be in accordance with statutory regulations.
- For all sites, waste receptacle will be put in place to reduce emissions.
- We shall endeavour to report all near misses and all accidents.
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There is no way forward in our stride to maintain enviable CASHES programmes without visible commitment. To further emphasise this area the company will pursue the following programmes:
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- Install a high level of security and safety consciousness beginning with the introduction and orientation of staff as they join the company. Reading, understanding and implementing on a personal and collective basis, the guidelines of the policy and objectives which the company aims at.
- As much as possible, seek nomination and placement for safety course, and put in place structured safety meetings.
- Train all employees so they can swim to personal survival level as part of the drive to keep the company in competitive position to vie for work anywhere.
- It is the duty of every employee to co-operate with the guidelines and show commitment by making efforts to wear personal protective equipment. It is hoped that the employee will not wilfully interfere with any provision of the CASHES programme.
- Quick detection of deteriorating conditions of work, morale and skills will be included in the Unsafe Act Auditing drive. Since this programme is action centred and will be carried out by our staff, it will further provide a learning process.
- The greatest visible commitment to CASHES is by showing good example. CASHES Officers and charge heads are therefore accountable for the unruly behaviour of personnel under their charge where their faults are traceable to insufficient CASHES awareness.
- It is the duty of every personnel to show commitment by making efforts to respect local custom, tradition and laws of community in which we work.
- Liaise continuously with the communities in order to identify and familiarise with the communities as this will go a long way in building the needed cordial relationship between us and the communities and enhance security.
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No work, no matter how urgent, is to commence without first ensuring that all necessary safety systems are in place. To this end, the project personnel must follow a structured system, which will ensure that :
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- Lock out systems are in place and necessary facilities are available to make the system workable.
- The Permit-To-Work System is implemented and that all the necessary clearance and permission have been sought and all staff engaged in the work are made aware of all the dangers.
- At work site and its surroundings, adequate means of warning to non company staff must be effectively maintained. Safety information and warning signs must be located in strategic areas. Wordings of such information should be in clear English and to convey their meanings quite easily.
- All drawings incidental to the work including as-built modifications, and those planned for the future are received and studied as to eliminate chance of error.
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CAKASA will continue to use competent persons to man its projects; such men at the time of engagement must possess adequate knowledge and skills, together with commitment to CASHES goals of the company. Meetings serve useful purpose when their planning, organisation and decision making process is properly informed and kept in the hands of honest and hardworking staff. The periods and agenda of meetings must therefore be circulated in advance in order to give every staff the opportunity to hear others contribute their quota and also be heard. The structure of meetings is as follows:
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- Daily tool box meetings lasting between 10-15 minutes at the work site will be held at site with the site safety officer leading the talk.
- Weekly site meetings will centre on work progress, problems and milestones achieved. Site supervisor in charge of works shall preside over this meeting.He shall copy the minutes of such meetings to his area manager in his SBU. Such meetings should include the review of Job Hazard Analysis (JHA) to accommodate new developments.
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Monthly Company Progress meetings will hold and co-ordinate all the reports from the various sectors. The aims will be to take decisions, apportion resources and have final authority for discipline. The company Chief Executive Officer will chair this meeting with all heads of department and area managers in attendance. The copies of minutes of meeting will be read to all staff or posted on notice boards for their future reading.
The agenda for all meetings must include CASHES. The agenda need not be too long so that adequate time will be made available to deal with it.
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