SUSTAINABILITY

Occupational Health & Safety

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OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & SAFETY
 

Kempe is firmly committed to providing a safe and healthy workplace for all employees, contractors and visitors. We will endeavour to address hazard control, accident prevention and control and rehabilitation as key platforms in our OH&S strategy. Resources will be made available to assist compliance with all relevant legislation, regulations, codes of practice and client OH&S requirements.

We value and ensure our success through a focus on maintaining the individual health and well being of each of our people and the environment, in which they work and live by:

• Ensuring our work culture demonstrates our value of caring for the wellbeing of everyone we work with
   targeting zero harm as the desired state

• Empowering all our personnel to place safety above production, profit and commercial outcomes

• Demonstrating leadership by displaying behaviour at all levels in the organisation that commit to excellence
   in safety

• Delivering constant improvement through planned safety objectives, targets and performance indicators that
   continually exceed expectations 

OH&S is both an individual and shared responsibility of all employees. We will not compromise safety for profit or production. Kempe will integrate OH&S into all aspects of the workplace by constantly improving our internal process and maintaining our ‘SafetyMAP’ accreditation.

Every employee should encourage others to work in a manner that is safe and healthy. We should discourage those that may work in an unsafe manner or place themselves or others at risk. We will actively support and promote safety in our workplaces.

Kempe Drug and Alcohol Awareness Programme

Kempe has an alcohol and drug free workplace policy. We have a strong commitment to provide a safe, secure and healthy working environment for all employees. We work towards a target of ‘zero harm’ as the desired state. With this commitment in mind, Kempe has developed a fit for work philosophy.

Employees are responsible for reporting to work, fit for work. They must not be impaired in their working capacity so as to endanger their own safety or the safety of any other person in the workplace. This means all employees must remain unaffected by drugs or alcohol regardless of their status within the company. This includes employees engaged in after hours work, on standby availability, and whether on a casual or contract basis.

Any employee taking prescribed drugs or controlled substances, which is likely to, or has affected their work performance or health and safety, must consult their team leader. The team leader may obtain specialist advice and determine if it is necessary to place the relevant employee temporarily on another assignment, or take other action as appropriate.