Health Environment and Safety Management in Entreprises

Health Environment Safety & Social Management in Enterprises

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Step 5 Achieve your targets

In step 5 you will:

Organise to achieve targets
Achieve targets
Audit progress

You now need to consider how you can achieve the targets you have set. You cannot do it on your own. Who is involved, how and what are they going to do?

The whole point of setting targets rather than laying down laws, is that everybody can join in with achieving the targets, each in their own way. Some may want rules, some incentives. There could be financial incentives, qualifications, promotion, or other awards.

Increase Staff Awareness And Involvement. You can encourage all staff to be aware of ways in which they can promote HES activities in their day-to-day activities. Make sure you respond to any feedback.

If all employees:

Use less water in washroom basins, this can amount to substantial savings.
Take more exercise they can help themselves and the organisation.
Report near misses, you can identify sources of accidents

You may encourage HES improvements by setting inter-departmental targets. You can also stimulate staff involvement by suggesting innovative ways of using the financial savings made, eg donations to charity, investment in staff facilities or wages.

You may find it useful to talk to outside agencies to assist you in the process of identifying where water/waste savings can most easily be made.

Various operating measures are put in place to help achieve the improvements in HES measures identified should now be implemented.

Staff development programmes: Design a HES training strategy where health initiatives such as stress reduction, alcohol abuse, smoking, good diet, pre-retirement, health and safety, along with environmental projects are incorporated into the mainstream training (conventional or on-line). There will need to support (time off to study) and development ( build into appraisal systems)

Audit

Audits check whether you are doing what you said you would do. Audits are like financial audits. Audits could become your favourite tool to acquire information about environment, employees' health, working ability and safety conditions. You learn as much from what you have not achieved as by what you have. From audits you can start to assess your own performance, as in Chapter 6. You now have the outline of a unified health, safety and environment system. You may want to look in more detail at existing systems.