MANAGEMENT CODE OF CONDUCT ON HSE’MS

In principle, the prevention of all accidents would start with the active commitment of the management to fulfill both moral and legal responsibilities.
         
For an enviable HSE’MS programs the company will pursue the following strategies:

1.       Increase level of safety consciousness beginning with the induction and orientation of staff as they join the company.  Reading, understanding and implementing on a personal and collective position basis, the guidelines of this policy and objectives the company aims at.

٭        To get all staff able to swim up to personal survival level as part of the drive to keep the company in a competitive position to vie for work any where else.

٭        It is the duty of every employee to cooperate with the guidelines and show commitment by making effort to wear Personal Protective Equipment.  It is required that the employees will not willfully interfere with any provisions intended for HSE’MS programs.

٭        The greatest visible commitment to HSE’MS is by showing good example.  Supervisors and charge hands are therefore accountable for the unruly behaviour of personnel under their charge where their faults are traceable to insufficient HSE’MS awareness.

2.       The protection of the environment and efforts to get all staff to cooperate with such measures must continue for all projects and the following will apply.

٭        Advance planning for the controlled generation and handling of waste products.  Such products will be separated and appropriate action taken.

٭        Where it is inevitable to use chemicals the selection shall be such that toxic and dangerous chemicals are substituted with known mild or relatively safe substitute.

٭        All sites waste receptacles will be put in place to reduce emissions.

٭        Encourage workers to endeavour to report all near misses and all accidents.

3.       Follow approved codes of work especially with regard to the standards and codes applicable to our jobs.

٭        Operate the Permit-to-work system effectively such that operational hazards are identified at their early stages and addressed.

٭        use safe tools – Both electrically operated and manual tools will be of such standards and state of repair, that their potential to causing harm will be greatly reduce.

٭        To enforce and implement Hazard Management using 12 principles of Enhanced Safety Management.

4.       The maintenance of high degree of personal health standards, on and off the job must be taken into account for each project.  The areas to be addressed include:

٭        Provision and maintenance of first aid facilities both at base and project sites.

٭        Provision of a safe place of work and a constant drive to ensure that proper quality standards are adhered to.

٭        Follow a good working habit, and avoid harmful drugs and alcohol at all times.

٭        Ensure that all company personnel are certified fit to work.

5.       Meetings serve useful purposes when its planning, organization and decision making process is properly informed and kept in the hands of honest and hard working staff.  The importance of meetings must therefore be spread in order to give every staff the opportunity to hear others, contribute his quota and also be heard.  The structures of meetings are as follows:

*        Daily tool box meetings lasting between 5 – 10 minutes at the work site will be held at site.

*        Bi-Weekly sites meeting will center on work progress, problems and milestones achieved.

*        Site Supervisor in charge of works shall preside over this meeting.  Monthly Company Progress meeting will handle and Co-ordinate all the reports from the various sections.  The aims will be to take decisions, apportion resources and have final authority for discipline.  The company Chief Executive will chair this meeting with all the Supervisors in attendance.  The copies of minutes of meeting will be read to all staff or displayed on notice boards for their further reading.

6.       No work, no matter how urgent, is to commence without first ensuring that all the necessary HSE’MS systems are in place.

 7.      Provision of fire extinguishers in all the company vehicles, trucks, and marine vessels.

*        All staff trained for fire fighting and equipments, and accessories provided for the offices, sites and vessels.

8.       To enhance security of personnel at outstation, management shall ensure that adequate arrangement for accommodation, feeding of all workers is made.  The following measures shall be taken:

٭        Accommodation must be decent with good sanitary facilities and ventilation.

٭        Accommodation shall have good cooking facilities.

٭        Food shall be purchased from any reliable sources.

٭        If the work site has no access to pipe borne water, arrangement shall be made for water to be provided in large supply from Port Harcourt or the nearest water station.