Health and Safety Overview
Health and safety is fundamental to the way we do business at BlueScope Steel. Nothing is more important than the health and safety of our people.
Our goal is zero harm and we are doing everything possible to achieve this goal.
Our safety beliefs form the basis for achieving our goal of zero harm:
- Working safely is a condition of employment.
- Employee involvement is essential.
- Management is accountable for safety performance.
- All injuries can be prevented.
- Training employees to work safely is essential.
- All operating exposures can be safeguarded.
BlueScope Steel has a comprehensive Occupational Health and Safety Management System which is mandatory in all our operations. Its purpose is to protect the health and safety of our employees, customers, contractors, visitors and the public. Under the Management System, Safety Management Standards have been established. Each business is required to demonstrate compliance to these standards.
The system focuses on three basic areas:
- Safe and healthy people
- Safe systems
- A safe and tidy plant
Strong and caring leadership, engaged employees and a robust operating discipline support initiatives in these areas. BlueScope Steel’s safety improvement initiatives have seen a substantial reduction in injuries. We are making good progress overall, with many businesses reporting noteworthy health and safety results. But we remain vigilant in pursuing our goal of zero harm.
Essential to our health and safety strategy is the ongoing effort to further develop our leaders, as is the continued implementation of risk management practices, behavioural health and safety audits, the reporting of incidents and near misses and the identification and prevention of at risk behaviour and at risk conditions.
