SHEQ at Whittan Group

Making the Safe Choice first is our commitment to the safety of our people and our customers. While safety has always been the focus of the company’s operations, Safety first is about us all following a safe system of work, understanding potential dangers, identifying them and responding appropriately.

In practice it means that if we are ever in doubt, we stop and make the safe choice about what we are doing. It recognises that we all share a collective responsibility for the safety of everybody engaged in our operations.  We want to build a culture of safety first that engages all of our team and is valued by our customers. Near miss reporting is key to us achieving these objectives.

We actively encourage staff to report near misses – in confidence if necessary – via a number of methods. More than anything we want everybody to be Safe, work Safe and get home Safe.

View our health and safety policy here.

Commitments

• Whittan will comply with all relevant legislation, regulations and industry codes of practice through effective deployment of our health and safety management systems.


• We are committed to continuously improving our Health and Safety performance. We know that doing the right things, the right way delivers improved employee commitment. The overriding principle is that Health and Safety must be incorporated into all aspects of our business.


• All incidents must be reported, investigated and where required, remedial actions will be taken to prevent repeats.accountability for Health and Safety starts at the top, with the Board. In fully supporting and endorsing this approach we will not only be visible in its delivery but also make the necessary resources available to implement it.


• Whittan is a business which cares for its employees and they care for each other. Achievement of these goals and commitments is supported by full implementation of our Health and Safety Standards.


• No task is so important that it can't be done safely.