Safety Policy

Dawson’s Safety policy

Dawsons Group of Companies recognises its moral and legal responsibility to provide a safe and healthy workplace.

It achieves this by developing, maintaining and promoting safe and productive work practices and effectively managing risk in all aspects of its business.

Safety is always a top priority and a value that is fundamental to our organisation and we believe that every accident, and therefore every injury, is preventable.

Our employees have stop-work authorities that if it is not safe do not do it, and they are actively encouraged to use this authority.

Although each person’s actions will ultimately determine his or her own individual safety, there is a clear duty for all those charged with supervision and management to establish and implement safety priorities and procedures. Supervisors and Managers must also administer the company’s responsibility to ensure a safe workplace with safe equipment.

Dawsons Group of Companies is committed to providing a safe and healthy workplace by developing, maintaining and promoting safe and productive work practices in all aspects of its business.

To achieve this Dawsons Group of Companies will:

• Use Australian Standards and Queensland Legislation as the basis for benchmarking best practice.
• Take all reasonable and practical measures to ensure the workplace is free of potentially hazardous conditions.
• Clearly assign accountability and responsibility for Occupational Health and Safety management leadership and performance, at organizational, functional, and operational levels.
• Provide supervision, information, training, procedures, and protective equipment so that employees, contractors, and visitors can carry out work in a safe and productive manner.
• Ensure that all incidents and accidents are thoroughly investigated to eliminate or reduce any future occurrences.
• Improve occupational health and safety through periodic review and improvement of Policies and procedures.
• Maintain trained individuals or teams capable of dealing with medical and emergency situations.
• Prevent personal and company losses from the consequences of accidents, injuries, illness, property damage, environmental and process loss.
• Use a risk management methodology to develop and implement systems and procedures.
• Provide health support systems to ensure the continued good health of employees, contractors and or visitors exposed to potential hazards and provide effective rehabilitation to promote early recovery from work based injuries or illness.
• Provide and support workplace based consultative and communication processes.