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Health, safety and environment in detail
Our VCA** certificate includes a H&S corporate plan, H&S safety regulations, and if required for the work, a specific H&S project plan. The content of these three H&S components is explained below.
Note
All employees, subcontractors and customers (masters) using our quayside facilities, ship lifts or premises, or who are present in any of our production workshops, must comply with and observe all regulations prescribed by the VCA** certificate. This is in the interest of the safety of all of us. Our fully integrated H&S policy paper is available for inspection at our main office and at the production management works office.
H&S corporate plan
In accordance with the VCA** regulations the various health and safety issues are addressed in a corporate plan which applies to any work carried out in our yard, on our premises, or on location anywhere else. Our H&S corporate plan includes the following information:
- company details
- contacts
- list of abbreviations
- management policy statement
- legislation and regulations
- organisation structure
- employees’ tasks
- instruction and supervision
- emergency response organisation
- safety plan and escape routes
- policy instructions
- safety instructions
- visitors, masters and subcontractors
- industrial waste
- reporting (near) accidents
- reporting incidents and complaints
- risk inventory and evaluation
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H&S safety regulations
In accordance with the VCA** regulations and the H&S catalogue for Dutch shipyards all the applicable safety regulations and measures have been recorded in writing. Our H&S safety regulations include the following:
- explanation of risks and maintenance
- Young Persons Act
- personal safety and hygiene
- personal protection equipment
- (power) tools
- lifting, hoisting and cranes
- using fork lift trucks
- welding, electrical preheating and grinding
- burning, heating and compressed air
- degreasing and spray-painting
- machinery
- enclosed spaces
- tanker health and safety certificates
- exemption regulations no. 4.11 or 4.12
- hazardous materials
- working at heights or in the open air
- working on location, suspended over water or alone
H&S project plan
In accordance with the VCA** regulations our VCA coordinator may decide that any relatively large project may be subject to an Individual H&S Project Plan. Certain conditions may involve such safety risks that the regular H&S corporate plan is insufficient. In such an event, before any work can start, a risk inventory and evaluation is carried out which records and safeguards any additional safety measures specific to the project. A toolbox meeting is then held to discuss the project plan internally with all the people working on the project. The project plan is also issued to and discussed with any subcontractors.
Proper administration and verification requires that anyone working on a project signs a statement to accept the applicable regulations. If applicable, the full H&S project plan is available for inspection at the main office and the works office.