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SABITA Health & Safety Seminar 2012

• Much Asphalt is a Murray & Roberts company and 100% owned by M&R

• As an organization we strictly adhere to the M & R ethos of Health & Safety

• Today I would like to share with you:– Some of the challenges we face on a daily

basis and how we deal with these challenges with specific reference to:• How do we work and live safely?• Monitoring and reporting as a management

tool• Progress regarding the DuPont

Bradley Curve

• Over the years we have made good progress in installing a positive health and safety culture and we have significantly reduced the lost time injury rates nationally.

• Safety is a journey and needs all the help from renowned organizations to apply proven best practices that will improve health and safety performance.

• Western Cape LTIFR = 0

Health and Safety as a journey

Challenges

How do we avoid accidents? Can one predict human behaviour ? How does human behaviour influence

attitudes and actions How do you instill good human

behaviour? How do you instill a sound health and

safety culture?

Health and Safety Culture

After suffering a series of significant incidents in the workplace, we soon realised that we have not been able to adequately address key factors that underpin our health and safety performance and culture. Cannot continue with same actions

taken in the past Drastic measures needed to be taken

Independent assessment of the Health and Safety Culture within Much Asphalt

• The M & R Holdings board and DuPont Sustainable Solutions undertook a comprehensive assessment of the Group’s South African operations against best practices of safety management standards and to develop a set of improvement recommendations:– Safety Perception Survey– Safety Management Evaluation

• Embarked on a journey to ZERO HARM

Injuries

Journey to Zero Harm: What motivates you??

Time

Dependent culture Independent culture Interdependent culture

Discipline/fear

Rules

Supervisory Control

Personal Commitment

Self-Managing

Self-Discipline

Self-Responsibility

Personal Goals

Care for Self

Team Building

Team Commitment

Development in Team

Help Others Conform

Value for Each Other

Team Goals

Safety Culture

“I do it so I don’t get caught”

“I do it so I don’t get hurt”

“I do it so none of us gets hurt”

Progress on DuPont Bradley Curve

• Evident that some of the employees are still in the dependent stage, while others are in the independent stage – great deal of overlapping– Means that some of the employees still

need to given instructions– Quite a number of employees follow the

SWP (Safe Work Procedure)– Monitoring of measures put in place

Challenge vs Solutions• Health and Safety Awareness Training– Bitsafe Training (bitumen decanting)– Hunt for Hazards (plant & offices)– Reporting all incidents & accidents– Investigating all accidents & incidents– 24 Hour Safety Alerts

• Branches operating as little empires remained a challenge.– Made progress – gap between actual practice and

the desired reality did not demonstrate the effort put into this campaign – moving from dependent to independent.

OHSAS 18001• Much Asphalt then aspired to become OHSAS 18001

accredited. As an accredited member, all branches had to step up to the required standards and operate in this framework.– This provided a great sense of direction and

uniformity among the branches – Same vision for everybody

– All documentation was standardized• The implementation of a good Health and Safety

Management System gave rise to new aspirations, greater heights, greater achievements that underpinned the Much Asphalt branding of:“….Together we can…”

The Health and Safety Management System

Monitoring and reporting as a management tool – monthly reporting

• Corporate & Branch specific objectives • Branch Management plan – Reporting on Near Misses (40-60 per month)– No blame policy– Added benefit visible felt leadership (VFL’s)

• Branch Indicators (Target vs Actual)• Safety meetings / Invocoms / Wellness Talk• Planned Task Observations• Near Misses • LTIFR

Continuous ImprovementsTo align ourselves to get to next level of excellence in

Health and Safety• 10 FRCP (Fatal Risk Control Protocol) were introduced– Simple terms = 10 Life saving rules

• Core values of Much Asphalt“…Together we can…”• Care - for our people• Act with Integrity – in all business dealings• Are Accountable – and taking responsibility for

our actions• Respect - people’s differences treating them

with dignity• Are Committed – to deliver on our promises

THANK YOU

“…Together we can achieve ZERO HARM…”

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Safety Perception Survey (SPS)

• A culture assessment survey that identifies key insights provided from a cross-section of the organisation from corporate office leadership to factory floor workforce. This is a self evaluation of the prevailing safety culture within the culture

Safety Management Evaluation (SME)

• An assessment and data analysis process

(which includes fieldwork, interviews and sight

tours) designed to look at closely at the

process by which each operating business

current cultural safety and risk-based

elements are managed. This rigorous process

serves to help validate the SPS findings and

offers a

complete picture of how our

organisational culture and risks.