Health & Safety Know your rights, and know your responsibilities too
Reliable Pressings is reviewing and refining its SHEQ policy in preparation for ISO 45001:2018 certification.
Our Philosophy on Safety
It’s as simple as this: if you care about delivering quality products, on time, reliably and consistently, you’d be a fool not to care about health and safety. But more importantly, a business is only as good as its people. Enough said!
How Our OHSMS Works
Leadership & participation
Management leadership and real employee participation are vital to our success. Our morning huddles and team meetings put the emphasis on safety, awareness of hazards and recognising risk.
Planning
Planning identifies OHSMS issues such as hazards, risks, management system deficiencies and opportunities for improvement.
Evaluation, preventive & corrective action
We evaluate performance continuously through monitoring, measurement, assessments, audits, accident and incident investigations, and analysis. Preventive action is taken when opportunities for improvement are found; corrective action when non-conformances or failures of standard operating procedures are found.
Management review
Reviews are carried out by managers with the authority to decide on the actions and resources needed. We make sure the team has the information to judge whether our OHSMS remains suitable and effective.
Implementation and operation
Our OHSMS carries the objectives and actions agreed in planning through its main operational elements:
- Hierarchy of controls
- Design review
- Management of change
- Procurement
- Contractors
- Emergency preparedness and response
- Competence and training
- Communication
- Document, data and record control
Training
Our learning programme is designed to give workshop employees functional competence and to embed a continuous-improvement approach to health and safety. The following training is being rolled out at Reliable Pressings:
- The Occupational Health and Safety Act and Regulations (Act 85 of 1993)
- Continuous risk assessment
- Incident investigation and analysis
- OHS legal liability for top management
- OHSMS workshop for management
OHS Goals and Compliance Checklist
- To comply with legal requirements through good occupational health and safety practices.
- To establish and maintain a safe and healthy working environment for all employees.
- To make sure that significant risks arising from work activities under our control are eliminated or adequately controlled.
- To develop and implement safe work procedures and practices, and keep improving them.
- To make the management of health and safety a specific responsibility of every manager at every level.
- To make sure all employees receive appropriate training and are competent to carry out their responsibilities.
- To review compliance with this policy regularly.