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CIMIC Group Limited Annual Report 2016 |
Sustainability Report
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PROVIDING SAFE COMMUNITIES AND WORKPLACES
Measures in place
Actions during 2016
Performance
- 100% of Operating Company
management systems certified to ISO
18001 and/or AS/NZ4801
- Maintained a diligent focus on making
workplaces safe and continued to
constantly assess the health and safety
of our people
- Recorded a fatality at CPB Contractors’
new Royal Adelaide Hospital project in
South Australia
- Recorded a fatality at Leighton Asia’s
Liantang/Heung Yuen Wai Boundary
Control Point project in Hong Kong
- Recorded a fatality at Thiess’ Sangatta
coal mine project in Indonesia
- Reduced Group TRIFR from 3.2 in 2015
to 2.7 in 2016
- Thiess achieved zero Recordable Injuries
(RI) in July, the first Recordable Injury
free month since 2003
- Safety Essentials (or similar) in place
across CPB Contractors, Leighton Asia,
Thiess and Sedgman to provide projects
with the rules, tools and knowledge to
manage activities that pose the greatest
risk to people
- Geotechnical Safety Essential campaign
launched in Thiess
- Sedgman ‘Critical Controls’ were rolled
out in 2016 including implementation of
Critical Controls audits on operational
sites
- Integrated Sedgman into CIMIC Group
safety systems
- Broad Construction (a subsidiary of CPB
Contractors) received an Excellence in
Workplace Health and Safety Award) for
the fit-out of the David Malcom Justice
Centre in Perth
- One Potential Class 1 (PC1) injury
recorded in Sedgman
- Use of ‘above-the-line’ controls used to
eliminate, substitute, isolate or
engineer out risk
- Introduced trial of secondary guarding
systems on construction scissors lifts
- Rolled out a ‘working at heights’
campaign in CPB Contractors
- Trial to be evaluated
- Campaign communicated to employees
- Health and Safety Policy which
promotes employee physical and
mental wellbeing
- Introduced the ‘Mates in Construction’
suicide prevention training program
across CPB Contractors’ sites and offices
- Program in place
- Thiess’ Health Safety & Security
management system available in
Spanish (as well as English, Bahasa and
Mongolian)
- Systems in place
- Management system being accessed by
foreign speakers
OUR APPROACH
Safety underpins everything we do. A business that depends on its people must provide a safe and healthy workplace. CIMIC Group
creates a safe and healthy workplace by performing work safely, encouraging workers to identify and fix workplace hazards, and by
promoting mental health and physical health to our workers.
CIMIC Group promotes, across all of its Operating Companies, a culture of sharing safety innovation, best practices and learning. The
Group is committed to driving safety through simplification of safety systems, and the identification and elimination of Class One Risks
through the creation of evidence-based lead indicators that drive key safety behaviours and outcomes.
The Group recognises that each of its Operating Companies is best placed to identify and control the hazards and risks associated with
that Operating Company. CIMIC supports the Operating Companies through integrated reporting at the CIMIC Group level and to the
CIMIC Board’s Ethics, Compliance and Sustainability Committee.
Our projects aim to integrate hazard identification and risk assessment into the design process with the aim of eliminating or minimising
risk of injury throughout the life of the asset (considering construction, testing and commissioning, operations and maintenance, and
decommissioning and demolition). Every project is required to have a Safety and Health Management Plan that is integrated with the
Group’s management systems.
The Group’s approach is that we take responsibility for everyone on our projects – employees, sub-contractors or visitors. We treat all
workers on our sites equally, irrespective of their role. CIMIC and its Operating Companies recognise that all workers on site are in our
care.
FATALITIES AND CLASS 1 INJURIES
The Group is deeply saddened by the death of three of its workers in 2016: the first in February at the new Royal Adelaide Hospital
Project, being constructed by a joint venture including CPB Contractors; the second, in June, related to an incident at our Thiess Sangatta
Mine in Indonesia; and the third, in November, at Leighton Asia’s Liantang/Hueny Yuen Wai Boundary Control Point project in New
Territories Hong Kong.
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