Work Health and Safety Policy

Purpose. Sets out Keystone's commitment to the health and safety of everyone on its sites and the responsibilities of officers, managers, workers, subcontractors and visitors.

1.Purpose and scope

This policy applies to every Keystone workplace including construction sites, the yard, the Geelong depot, client premises and vehicles. It applies to employees, apprentices, labour hire workers, subcontractors, placement students and visitors. Keystone will provide and maintain a working environment that is safe and without risks to health so far as is reasonably practicable, as required by the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004.

2.Commitments

Keystone will identify hazards, assess risks and apply the hierarchy of controls before work starts. High-risk construction work will not begin until a safe work method statement has been prepared, reviewed and signed by the workers doing the task. Managers will provide the plant, equipment, training and supervision needed to do each job safely.

• Consult workers on matters that affect their safety
• Provide a site-specific induction before anyone starts work
• Investigate every incident and near miss and act on the findings
• Set annual safety objectives and report on them quarterly
• Meet or exceed the requirements of the Act and the construction regulations

3.Responsibilities

The General Manager is the officer responsible for due diligence and must resource this policy. Managers and site supervisors must implement the WHS management plan on their sites and must stop work that is unsafe. Every worker must follow procedures, use the controls provided, report hazards and incidents and must not put themselves or others at risk.

• General Manager: resources, due diligence, annual review
• WHS and Quality Manager: system, audits, investigations, reporting
• Site supervisors: daily prestarts, SWMS, inspections, permits
• Workers and subcontractors: follow controls, report, stop unsafe work

4.Right to stop work

Any worker who reasonably believes a task exposes a person to a serious risk must stop the task and report it to the supervisor. No worker will be disciplined or disadvantaged for stopping unsafe work in good faith. The supervisor must record the stop work in the site diary and the WHS register and must not restart the task until the risk is controlled.

5.Consultation

Keystone consults workers through daily prestart briefings, weekly toolbox talks, elected health and safety representatives and the monthly WHS committee. Subcontractors are consulted at site coordination meetings. Minutes of the WHS committee are posted on the site notice board and the intranet within five working days.

6.Measurement and review

The WHS and Quality Manager will report lost time injuries, medical treatment injuries, near misses, hazard reports and audit findings to the leadership team each month. This policy will be reviewed every twelve months or after a notifiable incident, a change in legislation or a significant change to the business.