Health and safety strategies

• Project-specific safety plans with appropriate risk assessments and safety procedure
• A comprehensive underground services avoidance strategy, which includes reviewing location drawings, using specialist utility search/mapping contractors and employing vacuum excavation for access holes up to 1.2m
• Police-approved off-road driving, defensive driving and fatigue-awareness programmes
  
• A no blame culture and a near-miss reporting strategy to ensure potentially unsafe actions and events are identified, dealt with and learned from
• In-house access to health and safety professionals that can support our project personnel at a moment’s notice
• A health and safety programme with 34 unique policies and procedures
• Comprehensive, auditable employee training specifically tailored to anticipate on-site hazards
• A surveillance programme that ensures staff are fit and able to perform their prescribed duties
• Rigorous assessment of subcontractors
• Safety performance measurement system for every project
• Working with clients to develop key performance indicators
  

 Training

We operate a comprehensive internal training programme that includes accreditation to safety schemes such as:

• Construction Site Certification Scheme: all RemedX personnel and a large proportion of our chartered geologists are accredited to this standard
• National Grid Person and Competent Person Safety Training Scheme and the Basic Electrical Safety Scheme (BESC): all staff working on sub-station sites hold these qualifications
• HSG 47: a significant number of our staff have been through a two-day HSG 47 programme in order to reduce risk from underground utilities. Training included practical training on sub-station underground cable detection
• Petrol Forecourt Passport Training: All RemedX staff working for relevant BP Remediation Management, Shell UK Oil Limited or Chevron Texaco projects hold up-to-date safety passports
  

RSK Group health and safety performance

Details of RSK Group's health and safety commitment and performance statistics can be found here

Audits and performance

An in-house management team arranges regular audits and training to ensure the SHEQMS is not static. In November 2007, the Achilles Verify scheme gave RSK Group an 90.4% rating for its health and safety management system and 91.4% for its on-site performance.