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Health & safety
Our goal is to establish and preserve a culture where taking care of our employees and other workers comes first. Our award-winning programs, Challenging Beliefs, Affecting Behavior, and Be Well, help us accomplish this.
Challenging Beliefs, Affecting Behaviour
Since its launch in 2012, Challenging Beliefs, Affecting Behavior—a program centred on awareness, training, coaching, and visible leadership—has been the cornerstone of our safety culture. In 2022, we appointed a new leader for our CBAB program to redouble our efforts to address accident behavior in the short, medium, and long term. Over the years, we have steadily evolved the program. Through these initiatives, the program will incorporate broader components of the business’s strategy, such wellbeing and quality, which have the power to shape behavior. This acknowledges that, in the aftermath of the epidemic, factors other than work-related ones are influencing accident behavior.
Our culture of care serves as the foundation for our continued emphasis on “Lead Indicators” and our goal of doing no harm. Lead Indicators, which include the six essential areas of leadership, communication, competence, culture, contractors, and planning, enable us to be more proactive and forward-thinking. Our CBAB program is a vital component of our communication with subcontractors, who highly commend it for its capacity to convey the significance of safety in a way that challenges preconceived notions.
Our goal is to establish and uphold an atmosphere where the idea that every mishap can be avoided predominates and the safety of our employees and fellow workers is our first concern. We continue to place a strong priority on welfare, which was never more crucial than it was during the pandemic.
Policies and management
Our Executive Board has overarching responsibility for health and safety. Every management meeting prioritizes health and safety, and divisional and business unit boards’ weekly reporting allows for the identification of statistics and trends and, when necessary, the resolution of related issues.
The business unit management is in charge of carrying out our health and safety policy, which offers a framework for managing all facets of wellbeing, health, and safety. It also makes sure that all hazards to health and safety are evaluated and that safe work practices are developed in accordance with the Eurocon Construction International Try Health, Safety, and Environmental Management Systems. In order to provide health and safety, the policy establishes the tasks and responsibilities of the Executive Board, divisional Boards, and business unit management. It also demonstrates the Group’s dedication to making sure that employees behave in a way that advances a safer workplace culture.
Ensuring compliance
We make sure that our policies are generally known by posting notices on site, conducting internal training sessions, providing inductions for new hires, and using our intranet. A group of experts in health, safety, and sustainability (HS&S) are overseen by the director of health, safety, and the environment. Each business unit gains access to a Lead HS&S adviser. Advisors actively participate in the planning process and frequently visit the sites to ensure that our policies and procedures are being followed. A remedial action plan must be created for each found non-compliance and must specify when it must be finished. Monthly reports on non-compliance statistics and trends are given at the Board meetings of business units and divisions.
Regular discussions about health and safety performance take place at every level of the company, from business units to the board. Audits conducted in accordance with OHSAS 18001 and 14001, the standards for Occupational Health, Safety, and Environmental Management, offer further confidence. Management can effectively encourage and uphold safe behaviors on site by interacting with workers to address unsafe practices and reinforce safe behavior. This may be done through visible leadership, such as site safety tours, and open communication with our site teams.