Safety & Compliance

Elite Safety Objectives 

ELITE has the commitment to achieving the principles of Workplace Health and Safety in our working environment with AS/NZS4801:2001. As the PCBU, ELITE recognises our moral and legal responsibility to provide a safe and healthy work environment for workers, contractors, customers and visitors. This commitment also extends to all offices of ELITE in ensuring that our operations, defined responsibilities to each role or processes do not place the local community, any person or the environment at risk of injury, illness or damage. Continual training and awareness will benefit all those working within the company and on or near associated sites.

 

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

ELITE will produce, adopt and abide with internal procedures to –

• Provide and maintain healthy and safe workplaces, safe plant and systems of work
• Provide written business operating procedures and instructions to ensure safe work practices
• Ensure compliance with legislative requirements and current industry standards
• Provide such information, instruction, training and supervision to workers, contractors and customers as is necessary to ensure their continued health and safety
• Provide support and assistance to workers and involve them in consultation on safety issues and controls
• Provide assistance programs and procedures for injured workers
• Engage Rehabilitation providers and other specialists to assist injured workers

 

RESPONSIBILITIES

ELITE recognises that the overall responsibility to provide a safe workplace, rests with management who will be accountable for the implementation of this policy and business processes. These responsibilities include –

• Ensuring that the WHS policy and procedures are communicated and implemented
• Establishing measurable objectives and targets to ensure continued improvement aimed at the elimination of work-related injuries and illnesses
• Providing adequate resources to meet these WHS commitments Workers also have responsibilities, which include
• Following all WHS instructions and adhere to procedures; and AS/NZS4801:2001
• Recognising hazards which may affect the health and safety of themselves, others, or the environment and report and address as required

 

Workers also have responsibilities, which will include –

• Ensure their actions do not affect the safety of all other workers or persons
• Their fitness for duty is maintained at all times and fatigue is to be considered
• Comply with all safe work instructions, provided either verbally or formally
• Participate in the recording and control of hazards and risks in the workplace
• Participate in training, retraining and or rehabilitation when requested

 

IMPLEMENTATION AND REVIEW

In fulfilling these aims and objectives, the team at ELITE is responsible and committed to regular consultation with workers, clients and stakeholders. To ensure that Policy operates effectively and that documentation and data is periodically reviewed and conforms to the expectations of management.

 

Elite Chain of Responsibility Objectives

ELITE does acknowledge that, there are vast external influences within the logistic and transport industry which we conduct or provide our services too. The company is guided by our objectives and responds to the supplier and client’s expectations, always maintaining our involvement with other parties, referred to “supply chain participates”. Management is to complete training to ensure the required responsibilities are known and are adhered with by all staff and workers. Individual responsibilities are to be communicated to all relevant staff and workers within the business during the induction process.

Our commitment is to work aligned with the client’s needs and other parties, focusing on improvement, whilst ensuring compliance to applicable CoR Law. All key elements are included, which demonstrates the company’s preparedness by conducting ongoing internal Performance Management reviews and defining accountability.

 

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

ELITE endeavors to achieve the following-

• Complying with, applicable law, statutory requirements, regulations, codes and standards, customer/supplier needs and best practice
• Communicating the obligations of the roles and responsibilities for management, workers and responsible parties in the supply chain and how these hold common responsibilities
• Providing the necessary awareness, ongoing training, review, monitoring and commitment of directions taken or committed by managers and workers in our control
• Ongoing review of internal practices that have influence on possible non-conformity of the HVNL (NSW) 2012

 

Managers and Workers also have responsibility, which will include-

• Having knowledge of the strategies being applied by management internal and externally, to assess that processes implemented are affective
• Ensuring our management team and workers are trained in the awareness of Mass, Dimensions, Fatigue, Alcohol and other Drugs, Load Restraint, Speeding, Standards and day to day commercial requirements of the industry we operate within
• Internal reporting to be assessed vertically within the business by conducting performance reviews on all stakeholders
• All persons directly employed or in control or can influence operation processes involving, are to be monitored and assessed to ensure ongoing conformance remains
• Internal and external communication is under taken regularly to demonstrate awareness and observations are being investigated and if required, these are to be addressed.

 

IMPLEMENTATION AND REVIEW

In fulfilling these aims and objectives, the team at ELITE is responsible and committed to regular consultation with workers, clients and stakeholders. To ensure that Policy operates effectively and that documentation and data is periodically reviewed and conforms to the expectations of management.

 

Elite Fatigue Management Objectives

ELITE are committed to providing a safe place of work for all employees, contractors and visitors under our control. ELITE will ensure that it abides by the regulations and obligations related to proper performance, as per the statutory requirements of the relative laws.

As part of the managements view on compliance and with the requirements of the regulations within the applicable laws, our actions are to ensure that we conform to our own objectives.

 

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

ELITE endeavors to achieve the following-

• The elimination of risks and unsafe work practices caused by impaired or fatigued workers
• Compliance with the Workplace Health and Safety Act 2011, HVNL 2013 and Fatigue laws and regulations within the above mentioned
• The fundamental principal of this policy is that Fatigue in the workplace can create risk and may present a serious threat to the well-being of workers and other persons
• Ensure all shifts and rosters and working hours are consistently reviewed with knowledge and awareness of risks associated with fatigue in the work place

 

RESPONSIBILITIES

ELITE recognises that the overall responsibility to provide a safe workplace, rests with management who will be accountable for the implementation of this Fatigue policy and business processes. These responsibilities include –

• Ensuring fatigue related information is communicated and implemented
• Establishing measurable objectives and targets to ensure continued improvement aimed at the elimination of work-related fatigue risks
• Providing adequate resources to meet these WHS commitments

 

Workers also have responsibilities, which will include –

• Ensure their actions do not affect the safety of all other workers or persons
• Their fitness for duty is maintained at all times and fatigue is to be considered as a priority
• Comply with all safe work instructions, provided either verbally or formally
• Participate in the controls applied risks in the workplace to reduce the risk of fatigue related incidents
• Participate in training and communicate regularly if and fatigue related issues that affect your work

IMPLEMENTATION AND REVIEW 

In fulfilling these aims and objectives, the team at ELITE is responsible and committed to regular consultation with workers, clients and stakeholders. To ensure that Policy operates effectively and that documentation and data is periodically reviewed and conforms to the expectations of management.