James Technologies is committed to providing a safe and healthy work environment for employees, subcontractors, customers and visitors. This commitment extends to ensuring our operations do not place the local community at risk of injury, illness or property damage.
People are our most important asset and their health and safety is our greatest responsibility. We hold our management, supervisors, and employees accountable to provide a work environment without injuries or incidents and to that end our objectives are:
- To seek continuous improvement in our Occupational Health and Safety performance by setting challenging targets and measuring progress taking into account community expectations, management practices, scientific knowledge and technology.
- To identify and reduce the risk of all types of work activities that may produce personal injury or illness, damage to property, fire or security breaches.
- To provide information, instruction, training and supervision to employees, subcontractors and customers to increase personal understanding of workplace hazards, including safe work practices and emergency preparedness.
- To involve individuals in occupational health and safety matters and consult with them on ways to recognize, evaluate and control workplace hazards.
- To lead and encourage employee behaviour and initiatives that contribute to a safer and improved work environment at all levels in the company.
- To provide systems and resources for occupational health care, health promotion and rehabilitation.
- To allocate appropriate personnel and financial resources to meet health and safety requirements.
- To comply with all applicable laws, regulations, standards and where adequate laws do not exist, adopt and apply standards that reflect the company’s commitment to health and safety.
- To consult with government bodies and other industry groups in the development of standards, control strategies and monitoring techniques, and regularly review our policies and practices to reflect best practice.
- To strengthen our business by making safety and health issues an integral part of all business activities.