Health & Safety Policy

Chelken Contracting Services considers its employees to be its most valuable asset. We therefore undertake to safeguard the health and safety of all our employees and the public at large, from injury or risk to health arising from any of the operations with which the company is associated.

Policy Objectives
In accordance with this policy, the Company undertakes:

• To consider all Statutory safety legislation as being the minimum standard of precautionary practice;
• To ensure that risk is reduced to a minimum by the implementation of risk control programs designed to protect employees and Company property;
• To ensure that safety and loss prevention takes precedence over expediency.

All employees are directly involved in the achievement of these objectives. They will be advised and assisted by those Managers and Supervisors who have legal responsibility for ensuring that all problems relating to Health, Safety, Environmental and loss prevention are given the required attention and brought to the notice of Management.

Employee obligations to ensure the achievement of these objectives include:

• Compliance with all risk control measures which may be set out by the employer;
• Taking all reasonable care for their own safety, the safety of others, and the prevention of loss or damage to Company property;
• Ensuring that protective clothing and health and safety equipment is used as stipulated to provide protection and to guard against injury of health hazard;
• Reporting all unsafe acts or conditions to their Departmental Supervisor, SHE Representative/ Manager.

The cooperation of staff at all levels, as a committed team, in carrying out this policy will ensure the safest possible working conditions, thus, minimizing injury and loss. Chelken Contracting Services accept no compromise on the Health and Safety of our Employees or those we engage with, and undertake never to cause harm to the environment or damage to our clients assets.