HEALTH & SAFETY
At Altrad, ‘Health and Safety’ is more than just a priority
It is a value that is not open for discussion: for that reason, safety underpins every decision we make and every action we take.
On a day-to-day basis, we strive, with our employees and partners, throughout all our facilities, operational worksites and offices, to achieve the very highest safety standards.
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Message from the President
“At Altrad, we are aware that the complexity and the diversity of our businesses can sometimes make it difficult to identify high-risk situations, and even more difficult to know what attitude to adopt when faced with a hazard.
For that reason, at every group level, numerous initiatives have been introduced to improve safety. These initiatives are always part of a continuous improvement process based on identifying, analysing and controlling risks.
To reduce these risks and make safety a genuine value shared by all its employees, Altrad is committed to making safety a basis of its corporate culture.
The approach that we promote enables everyone to become involved and give their opinion on topics relating to health and safety. On a day-to-day basis, everyone’s contribution is both necessary and welcome. It creates a collective commitment and helps us to develop a genuine safety culture.”
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Safety Culture
Historically, our subsidiaries have introduced an HSE management system with clear objectives in terms of the results we wanted to achieve. However, beyond the figures, we have implemented a group-wide process intended to ensure we have a deeply embedded and sustainable safety culture (see our Group HSE Policy).
At Altrad, we all know that an integrated safety culture goes beyond the implementation of a classical and directive top‐down set of safety policies and procedures. It is rather the result of a holistic approach to safety, which incorporates everyone within the organisation, in every country where we operate, from top management to field operators and support personnel.
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Safety Golden Rules
Our safety Golden Rules are part of a continuous programme to embed safety within our culture. They embody our commitment: thus, with our employees and partners, we strive to achieve the very highest safety standards, whatever the situation.
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Our key drivers to develop our safety culture
- Inspire people to adopt a positive attitude towards safety
- Make safety a fundamental value shared by all
- Focus on the importance of major risks and their prevention strategy
- Share the safety vision and responsibilities between employees and management
- Foster individual intervention through transversal cooperation and dialogue
- Maintain coherence and ensure persistence in our daily decisions and actionsRecognise good practices and apply fair penalties
- Develop leadership in safety through the entire chain of command, regardless of level or position
- Commit to a long-term approach