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HEALTH & SAFETY POLICY STATEMENT

London Demolition (UK) Ltd believes that good health and safety management contributes to its business performance, the business performance of its customers and the health wealth and well-being of its employees.

We believe that an excellent company is by definition a safe company. Since we are committed to excellence, it follows that minimising risk to people, plant and property is inseparable form all other company objectives

London Demolition (UK) Ltd aim is to lead, to establish best practices and to use best established methods of health and safety management within the Demolition industry.

We recognise that our staff is an important asset and we aim to maximise this resource through clear channels of communication, and by establishing training and competence objectives at all levels within the Company. We will also insist on the same standard from our sub - contractors.

London Demolition (UK) Ltd operates a system of loss control, which pays regard not only to occupational ill health and injury, but also to events involving damage to property, plant and the environment. This system is informed and measured by:

Active Monitoring: Site Supervisors daily inspection reports, Directors/Management to visit site every 2 weeks to carryout Safety Tours, internal and external (e.g. by our Safety Advisers or other body) audits; and

Reactive Monitoring: Investigating and recording occupational ill health, injury, damage to property and plant, and near misses.

The outcome of this monitoring is reviewed at routine safety management meetings, both formal and informal.

Safety within London Demolition (UK) Ltd is managed through the London Demolition Co. Ltd Safety Management System. This is based on the health and safety management models within the H.S.E. publication ‘Successful Health & Safety Management’ (H.S.G. 65) and the British Standard BS8800.

It is this company’s objective to comply not only with the general duties enshrined in the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 but also with the increased duties imposed by Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, and the “relevant statutory provisions” (such as COSHH, PPE, Manual Handling, Noise etc. Regulations) particularly The Construction (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1996 and the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 1994.

Effective control of health and safety within London Demolition (UK) Ltd is achieved through co-operative effort at all levels within the business. Responsibility for ensuring the co-operation is led by the Directors and is identified in individual Safety Responsibility Statements issued to all staff. In order to achieve the process of continuous improvement, annual Health & Safety objectives are established at the beginning of each calendar year.

Planning and implementing safety is achieved through the process of risk management, observance of legal requirements and suitable management arrangements, with information disseminated to workers through method statements, Health and Safety Plans, or work plans for all tasks as laid out in our Safety Management System.

London Demolition (UK) Ltd has a firm commitment to see that safety objectives are met and that a firm commitment to continual improvement is applied.

The Directors of the Company undertake to ensure that suitable and sufficient resources - in terms of time, finance and personnel - are made available to carry this Policy into full effect.




Signed Dated............................................


Mr. T.B.Greenham
Chairman / Managing director