Health & Safety

Killby & Gayford recognises the importance of health and safety performance throughout the company and strives to achieve exemplary standards of workplace practice above and beyond that currently required by legislators. In line with this stringent site audits are carried out on a bi-weekly basis and results recorded and tabled at monthly Regional Health and Safety meetings.
The company has produced a Health and Safety Strategy which defines plans and processes to achieve our goals and ensure their use in everyday working practices by focusing on key points, including:

• Understanding the benefits of proactive health and safety
• Influencing Killby & Gayford employee and subcontractor behaviour
• Providing advice and support
• Ensuring effective communication
• Feedback and lessons learnt regarding performance from our bi-weekly audits

In 2009 Killby & Gayford developed a new, more formalised and efficient local stakeholder engagement process to help facilities identify and anticipate status issues and produce a consistent, documented and proactive system to help drive implementation. This system has now become a required component of the HSE Management System and local stakeholder engagement plans are scored and recorded on the HSE scorecard.

Health and Safety requirements are maintained through the application of in house Site Operation Manuals and associated documents, including:

Company Safety Policy: Shows the commitment to Health, Safety and Environmental compliance with current legislation and identifies basic procedures and employee responsibilities.

Site Operations Training Manual: Details procedures to be used and employed on site, including construction activities and the application of risk assessments, and forms the basis of discussion at our annual Health and Safety seminar. Any changes to legislation are highlighted and discussed and additional training agreed and implemented.

Site Operation Procedures Manual: Provides a summary of the Site Operations Training Manual for use as a reference document by the employee and in correspondence with external parties.

Site Set-Up Folder: Contains hard copy checklists and forms required by the site team to maintain compliance with company and legislative. Completed forms are then filed within the Construction Phase Health and Safety Plan part 2.

Construction Phase Health and Safety Plan:
Part 1: Contains client team pre-tender information which will assist in identifying hazards and risks associated with the project.
Part 2: Contains all completed checklists and forms and accommodates external health and safety documentation required to achieve the CDM compliance