Our goal is to conduct our operations in an incident free workplace. AES supported by all who work at our sites are responsible for achieving this goal. We firmly believe that visible leadership is the significant contributor to this goal. AES employees, management team, sub – contractors & suppliers are accountable for this goal and driving a strong HSSE culture.
When HSSE conflicts with our other business objectives, then HSSE will take priority until these HSSE risks are reduced to an acceptable level.
OUR COMMITMENTS
We commit to protect our people, our business partners, the communities we work alongside and the customers we serve, by ensuring our operations are carried out safely and securely with minimal impact to the environment every single day. We achieve this commitment by:
• Providing a safe, healthy, secure work environment.
• Complying with relevant HSSE legal and contractual requirements, ensuring business continuity to our customers through the consistent application of effective HSSE related processes.
• Ensuring that HSSE risk management is embedded across our operations and decision making to secure our sustainable growth and earnings.
OUR PRINCIPLES
We have 3 principles that underpin our commitments:
• We lead with care.
• We learn and adapt.
• Our people are the experts.
We will achieve this by ensuring:
• Protect our people and the environment where we work.
• Provide competent and capable leaders and team members.
• As individuals take responsibility for our own safety and for others around us.
• Consult with our workers and promote their participation.
• Maintain asset integrity to prevent major incidents.
• Comply with all applicable legal and regulatory requirements where we operate.
• Comply with our policies, procedures, instructions, and those of our customers.
• Plan all work, identify HSSE hazards and control risks to an acceptable level.
• Control any HSSE risks introduced through management of change.
• Empower our people at all levels to exercise their duty to ‘Stop Work Policy, which they believe to be unsafe.
• Report all incidents and by investigating them, determine causes and corrective actions.
• Learn and share lessons from incidents.
• Regularly review, inspect and audit our daily activities.
• Require similar standards from our sub - contractors & suppliers and implement a system to review their performance.
• Maintain a positive HSSE culture and communicate our vision, objectives, and policies.
This Policy will be communicated to all staff, sub – contractors and suppliers and will regularly monitor the application of these commitments to provide assurance that we are delivering continuous improvement and progressively working towards achieving our vision for HSSE excellence.
This policy shall be reviewed & communicated every two years to ensure applicability, awareness & support, both internally and externally. A set of company values supports this policy.
