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CIMIC Group Limited Annual Report 2016 |
Sustainability Report
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CPB Contractors’ Safety Essentials are a collection of minimum requirements that are focused on providing projects with the rules, tools
and knowledge to manage activities that pose the greatest risk to our people. The Safety Essentials cover activities such as:
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Electrical work – managing the risk of electric shock;
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Live services – risk of working with live services such as power, electricity, gas, water and petroleum;
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Live traffic – where there is a risk of being struck by live traffic, or project activities impacting on passing vehicles or pedestrians;
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Mobile cranes and lifting operations – when working with mobile plant that is used to lift, suspend and/or carry, and lower a load;
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Mobile plant – where the public or workers risk being struck by operating mobile plant; and
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Working at heights – where there is a risk of a worker falling or an object falling from height.
Originally launched in 2010, the Safety Essentials were refreshed and reinvigorated in 2015/2016 after a period of extensive review and
consultation with project staff.
As a result of the fatality at the New Royal Adelaide Hospital, CPB Contractors has begun investigating a secondary guarding system (SGS)
that can be fitted to an elevated work platform (EWP - scissor lift). The proposed SGS utilises sonic technology (or radio waves) that are
integrated into the controls of the scissor lift. When the EWP approaches a hard object it will automatically reduce the speed of operation
of the EWP, therefore eliminating most of the risk of being caught between the EWP and the hard object. CPB Contractors is confident
that its initiative will be able to be successfully transferred to the industry so as to improve safety standards on other construction
projects.
In Australia, due to the outdoor nature of construction and construction activity, employees are susceptible to skin cancer. CIMIC has
worked with and supported the Cancer Council of Australia to promote sun awareness and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. The Group also
provides personal protective equipment to reduce the risk including long sleeve shirts, broad-brimmed hats and safety-rated sun glasses.
Our Leighton Asia business has developed a series of Class One Practices (COPs). Similar in nature to the CPB Safety Essentials, the COPs
cover the high risk activities carried out at project sites, such as:
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Working at heights – risks associated with working at heights including falling objects and working above the ground;
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Lifting operations – risks associated with crane operations, safe working loads and rigging requirements;
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Isolation and hazardous energies – risks associated with electricity, chemicals, kinetic energy and mechanical energy;
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Vehicle and mobile plant movement – risks associated with the interactions between workers and plant and between plant; and
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Temporary works – risks associated with temporary works such as form work and scaffolding.
COPs build on the application of minimum standards and set best practice for controlling safety hazards and risks associated within
Leighton Asia. Leighton Asia’s ‘Strive for L.I.F.E’ initiatives, such as the Strive for L.I.F.E training centres, reinforce COPs. Since opening in
2010, 95,452 Leighton Asia employees have been trained through the Strive for L.I.F.E. training centres.
SAFETY IN MINING AND MINERALS PROCESSING
Thiess’ Safety Essentials describe clear minimum requirements for high risk activities in mining and are mandatory for all Thiess sites.
They comprise non-negotiable critical controls and core procedures, and are produced in English, Spanish, Bahasa (Indonesian) and
Mongolian. The Safety Essentials globally cover higher risk activities such as:
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Explosives – for the safe transportation, use, security and disposal of explosives;
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Geotechnical – to ensure ground movement is managed;
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Heights – for working safely at heights;
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Isolation – to ensure energy sources are identified and positively isolated;
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Lifting – to work safely with cranes and other lifting equipment;
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Traffic – for the safe operation and interaction of all vehicles on site and to ensure infrastructure is designed, constructed and
maintained; and
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Tyres – for working safely with tyres and tyre handling equipment.
In 2016, Thiess added the Geotechnical Safety Essential which highlights the critical controls necessary to deal with geotechnical hazards
and risks such as rock-falls, rock-bursts, and slope failures.
Thiess has continued to reduce injury rates through the development of lead indicators that drive the behaviours aimed at reducing
hazards and incidents through the proactive identification of those hazards and risks. Thiess has set a target that 60% of all actions taken
to treat or eliminate hazards should arise out of proactive activities such as audits, workplace inspections and observations. The other
40% of actions taken are reactive, arising as a consequence of safety incidents. This approach aims to reduce hazards before they can
result in an injury.
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