Corporate Health and Safety policy
General:
It is the policy of Crest Nicholson Plc (hereafter called the Group) to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare of its employees while they are at work and of others who may be affected by the Group's operations and undertakings.
The Group Board accept their individual and collective responsibility for health and safety and delegate day to day responsibility for ensuring occupational health and safety (OH&S) to the Executive Management Team. Chris Tinker, Interim Chief Executive, is the Corporate Management Appointee for health and safety.
The Group is committed to the prevention of injury and ill health and recognises that a number of activities which it undertakes, or which are undertaken on its behalf, may involve risks to the health and safety of employees and others, may give rise to the risk of asset loss and may affect product delivery. For these reasons, the Executive Management Team allocates appropriate levels of resource to eliminate and control OH&S risk and to maintain and improve the Corporate OH&S management system.
The Group is also committed to complying with all relevant OH&S legislation, complying with other OH&S requirements to which it subscribes and improving its OH&S performance.
OH&S Objectives:
- Continually improve the Corporate OH&S management system.
- Continually improve OH&S performance.
- Maintain the Annual Injury Incident Rate (AllR) at below the construction industry average as published by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) [www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/index.htm].
- Maintain effective OH&S procedures, work instructions and standards.
- Monitor industry good practice and implement practices relevant to Group operations and undertakings.
Signed on behalf of the Executive Management Team:
Crest Nicholson Plc
01 April 2019
