SICS proudly recognizes the responsibility of safeguarding the environment, conditions of our employees, and the public at all times through our carefully administered comprehensive safety and health programs:
– Mandatory first responder training
– Access to a wellness center for all personnel
– A customizable health package based on the individual needs of our employees, which incentivizes a proactive lifestyle.
HSE Mission and Vision:
Our pride in adhering to the very best industry practices stems from our dedication to achieving practical results in ensuring the safety and health of our employees across all divisions. In addition to providing the very best care to our workforce, SICS mission of meeting and exceeding all safety requirements extends from our employees to our clients, contractors, suppliers, and, most importantly, the environment in which we operate in.
HSE Policy:
Our commitment to balanced and proactive management is integral to the health and safety of our team at SICS. We believe that performing within HSE Policy stratagems while holding high standards for the environment is core to our principle for maintaining a profitable business model. For a more defined understanding, examine our HSE commitment in conjunction with our HSE Vision and Mission.
Management Systems:
SICS maintains and continuously improves a comprehensive and systematic HSE management system, providing a documented approach for all necessary safety requirements. The HSE handbook is managed as a critical business activity report, guided by setting targets for record performances, driving our teams to the highest standard in the industry. A cyclic, inter-related system of steps are used to ensure continuous improvement in the HSE management systems through both internal and external audits, all evident by the consistency of improved performance year after year.
All SICS subsidiaries must follow the SICS HSE Management System or documented procedures in lieu. They are held accountable for HSE performance and must maintain a declaration of conformance supported by a signpost document to the SICS HSE Management System and its goals.
Employee Involvement:
Leadership accountability in regards to improved performance is fundamental to out HSE System.
Management at all levels has the responsibility to demonstrate and encourage a commitment to the HSE culture to create and sustain an interdependent company with responsible employees.
We foster a motivating workplace for all of our employees with a reward system through appropriate training, accountability, and empowerment.
Our trust, respect, and support for each other promotes teamwork and encourages us to achieve our goals successfully.
Our main themes of activity are:
– Consistent reduction of injuries and illnesses:
We believe that incidents of all types and occupational diseases must be prevented. Our main goal is to achieve zero injuries, illnesses, and impacts on the environment. By accounting off-premise safety as an indicator, we can manage the smallest of risks.
– Consistent reduction of toxic emissions:
We use a comprehensive inventory to drive our priorities in reducing emissions to zero, selecting those that have the most significant risk to health and the environment. Our preferred process is to solve environmental issues at its source. When necessary, we use appropriate treatment and procedures for mitigating wastes and dispose of unavoidable wastes responsibly.
Conservation of natural resource and habitat:
We continuously demonstrate our respect for the natural environment and strive to protect it. SICS worksites are natural environments, enabling us to enhance them as sanctuaries for biodiversity and wildlife actively.
Product and Distribution Management:
SICS operates with suppliers and customers through constant communication and relationship building to ensure an efficient practice. The product value chain and life cycle being the center of our focus allows us to adapt and continuously improve in line with the industry’s best methods. We assess each new product and process for its total hazard, impact, and acceptability to the environment and community.
Stakeholder Engagement:
SICS attentively publishes statistics on our performances in HSE to promote an open dialogue with our stakeholders to develop a better understanding between all parties. Our actions make us a responsible member of society, and as a result, we take pride in fostering constructive relations with the communities in which we operate. Transparency in communication is held as a fundamental component to our success and consider it to be mandatory when demonstrating the highest standard of ethics.
Process Safety:
Hazard management is a framework of the HSE foundation. The reduction of total uncertainty is a continuous process mitigated through proficient research. Our firm centralizes its design programs to increase safety margins within safety management. Safety management response plans must be maintained and exercised to protect all parties involved in the event of an incident. Security management of our sites is periodically reviewed, supporting the goals of our HSE Management System.
Past, Present, and Future:
SICS strives to excel in all functions of its business practice by addressing different disciplines that adversely impact the environment.
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Successful health, safety, and environment management systems contain the following ten key elements:
1. Handbook Availability:
A systemized process to control and distribute time-sensitive documents by accessing cloud data rooms. Creating protocols in this area helps ensure that employees always have access to current and correct safety information.
2. Safety Inspection Checklists
Creating a safety inspection checklist is critical to our success. A baseline is established for consistent quality inspections and provides data on areas of safety that are improving or declining over time.
3. Risk Assessments
Risk assessments help us protect employees from potential harm from potential fines and lawsuits. After identifying potential hazards to our workers, we can determine areas of safety non-compliance and devise and implement solutions.
4. Emergency Response Plan
OSHA requires emergency response plans to include how to:
Report an emergency, evacuation procedures, assembly points, processes to shut down project operations, rescue and medical duties for designated medic professionals, and providing contacts of HSE experts freely. Additionally, emergency response plans can contain information on local hospitals, medical services, and medical evacuation procedures.
Learn more about our Medical Emergency Response Plan services.
5. Training Program and Documentation System:
Employee safety training programs can include fire/tornado/earthquake drills, accident simulations, and even first aid to advanced medical training. Other types of practice include the correct use of PPEs, forklift safety, and hazardous waste management. While OSHA does not require documentation of all kinds of exercise, it’s a best practice to keep documentation—these notes can be useful when planning future preparations.
Learn more about our medical training courses.
6. Internal Audit Policy and Schedule
Health and safety audits are to ensure compliance with safety laws, as well as identify strengths and weaknesses in our HSE management system. Either an internal or external auditor can perform the audit, and no matter which route you choose, inspections should be performed regularly. Documentation from reviews can be used to compare improvements and issues from year-to-year, identify trends, and create new safety initiatives based on audit data.
7. List of Laws, Health, and Safety Regulations for Compliance:
OSHA requires many employers to display their Job, Safety, and Health poster in a conspicuous space where employees can see it. This poster informs workers of their rights under the Occupational Safety and Health Act. Although not required, we display additional health and safety laws in the same space to encourage employee awareness and compliance.
8. Measurable Performance Metrics:
Our business relies on performance metrics to improve their bottom line, and HSE departments are no exception. These metrics help identify areas that need improvement, as well as trends over time. Key performance indicators for health, safety, and environment include:
– Lost Time Rate (LTR)
– Total Accident Rate (TAR)
– Accident Severity Rate (ASR)
– Total Recordable Injuries
– Working Days Since Last Incident
9. Regular Meetings and Communications Strategy
Creating a consistent meeting schedule for health, safety, and environment staff are critical for reviewing current HSE strategies and successfully implementing new initiatives. Additionally, putting a clear communication plan in place fosters collaboration and reduces confusion during emergencies. We schedule HSE staff meetings on a weekly or biweekly basis and make sure to assign a meeting leader and prepare an agenda to ensure efficient and effective meetings. We create a contact sheet for all HSE personnel, as well as an easily accessible work schedule, encouraging transparent communication among the team.
10. Regular Management Review
Our HSE management system is reviewed to verify progress. A review of our management system and team by senior leadership is conducted regularly, keeping staff and the system accountable. By setting rigid guidlelines maintaining protocol, discussions between safety personnel and upper management become encouraged.
The purpose of a health and safety management system is two-fold. First, we all seek to prevent illness and injury, and this requires some degree of systematization and integration of general management practices with health and safety. Second, when disease or damage occurs, we need a well-established and rehearsed plan to ensure that the response is appropriate. We support these systems because we care deeply about those we are responsible for. However, there is also an apparent business factor at play: poor management of health and safety directly affects the bottom line in any organization. From the cost of rescue to a drop in employee morale, mismanagement of health and safety is costly.
CSR:
We take our corporate responsibilities (“CSR”) seriously and are committed to advancing our policies and systems across Redwood Global Inc., promoting an ethical business environment internally. These include but are not limited to sound moral behavior, concern for employee health and safety, and, more importantly, care for the environment, and community involvement. We recognize that our social, environmental, and ethical conduct has an impact on our reputation. Therefore we commit to continual improvement in our performance, efficient use of natural resources, and aspire to provide our services with zero harm to the community and environment.
We are committed to taking affirmative steps towards CSR through:
– Economically viable investments
– Technically appropriate operations
– Environmentally sound practices
– Socially responsible actions