Health, Safety, Environment and QualityCommitment
P&O Maritime Services strives to achieve the highest level of service to its customers, ensuring that commitment to safety and environment protection is not compromised in meeting the business needs of its customers. As a service provider to high risk and specialised industries, P&O Maritime Services reputation is measured on the performance of its maritime fleet and associated services. Consistent with company policy, safety and environment is given first consideration next to other primary business objectives and ongoing business risks. P&O Maritime Services believe that by providing a service that strives to meet best practice in safety and environment protection, at all levels of the organisation, it enables the company to have a competitive advantage.
Policy
The Health, Safety and Environment policy is the company's commitment to effectively and responsibly managing its social, employee, contractor and environmental risks. Signed by the Managing Director, this policy helps to establish the cultural expectation for all employees to aim for the highest achievable standards of Occupational Health Safety and Environment (OHSE). With this commitment shared across the entire workforce, P&O Maritime Services shall realise its SafeShip strategy. Through its SafeShip strategy P&O Maritime Services aims to arrive at a safety culture where everybody works safely at all times, with zero injuries. This strategy is founded on safety leadership, talking safety, hazard awareness and P&O Maritime Services' management system. This management system is the framework which will ensure continouos improvement of its processes towards OHSE excellence. The SafeShip strategy means that everyone from the Managing Director to crew members have specific and measured key activities aimed at improvement of P&O Maritime Services' OHSE standards and risk minimisation. It is P&O Maritime Services aim to have a workforce that has a disciplined, proactive and visible safety culture at all levels of the organisation. The Health, Safety, Welfare and Environment Policy can be viewed here.
Strategy In order to sustain a level of service consistent with the business philosophy, an integrated management system approach to internationally recognised standards has been adopted for application across the business. P&O Maritime Services is certified to ISO9001:2008, ISO14001, OHSAS18001 and AS/NZ4801. This forms an integrated framework for its quality, safety and environmental management system. P&O Maritime Services operates its vessels to International Safety Management (ISM) code. External accreditation to this standard ensures an impartial verification of an effective management system that provides a value add service to P&O Maritime Services' customers, protection of its employees against foreseeable risks and minimising the impact on the environment from its operations.
Continuous Improvement
The need for continuous improvement is paramount to ensure that complacency does not set in and services provided by P&O Maritime Services remain world class. P&O Maritime Services will continue to review and develop practices and processes that ensure it will remain at the forefront of the industry, not only for its customers but also for its employees. P&O Maritime Services' management plan, which is circulated to its vessel Charterers, includes a commitment to continuous improvement and details the initiatives it is undertaking. There is a network of ISO/HSE 'Champions' at each area of operations. Each of these individuals are provided with training and are active in the continuous improvement of P&O Maritime Services' management system at their specific location, and also coordinate the delivery of tangible system improvement outcomes at that area of operation.
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