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Compiled by Dr. Joe Herbertson
June 2001
Sustainable Resource
Processing
The
Safety Parallel
Business leadership and senior
management commitment lay at the heart of the success in improving health and safety
performance
Steps to Safe Workplaces
•Establish concern for
people’s safety as a core business value
•Reinforce the Fundamental
Principle:
All
Accidents are Preventable
•The vision and ultimate
goal is ‘zero’ - regardless of current performance
•Tailor shorter term
improvement targets and plans to local situations
•Engage the hearts and minds
of the workforce,
and their families
•Provide resources and
extensive training [cultural and technical]
•Incorporate into management
systems
•See safety as a source of
business improvement
not a cost
The approach to Sustainable Development should
echo industry’s approach to safety; it is an excellent
foundation upon which to build
•Concern for people and nature
become core
business values
•The fundamental principal is that successful businesses
can be conducted
without irreversible damage to the environment
•‘Zero’ impacts is the vision, with
short term
stretch targets