Health & Safety

B&C Contractors has implemented a documented Health & Safety Management System (OHSAS) in accordance with the requirements of OHSAS18001:2007.

The main objectives of this system are to ensure that customer requirements are clearly understood and met, construction projects are delivered on time and within budget and that the OH&S system is maintained in compliance with relevant legislation.

The detailed implementation of the OHSAS is available on request.

As part of OHSAS 18001:2007, all procedures cover employees of the company, contractors and sub-contractors and they are responsible for complying with the legislation that is communicated to them.  These procedures are communicated through

• Site Inductions

• Tool Box Talks

• Site Meetings

• E-mail and

• Informal Communications

All B&C Contractors personnel have Safe Pass Cards.  There are also employees with Scaffolding Certificates, Machine Tickets, Irish Concrete Federation Certificates, Managing Safely in Construction Certificates and Occupational First Aid Certificates.  As part of OHSAS 18001:2007, there are site induction meetings held at the commencement of each site and for every new or transferring operative thereafter.  Regular Tool Box Talks are held especially when site circumstances change with all B&C Contractors personnel and sub-contractors attending.  Records of same are kept on file.

There is a Training Plan and Training Records kept on all B&C Contractors employees which is reviewed regularly.  Trainers who are competent to deliver training are then used to train our staff, where possible we use FAS approved trainers or trainers recognised by some other national or international body.  Staff who are competent to deliver training based on their expertise and skills will deliver internal training.

OH&S Policy
We are committed to improving Occupational Health & Safety (OH&S) performance by providing our employees, contractors and visitors with the highest standards of Health & Safety practices, equipment and training at all sites and places of work we are responsible for.

We are committed to at least complying with current applicable OH&S legislation and with other requirements which the company subscribes to.

We have set ourselves the following OH&S Objectives

• We are committed to preventing injury and ill health at our places of work and aim to have zero reportable accidents.

• We will fully train staff in OH&S per our Training Plan

• We will carry out OH&S Internal Audits per our Audit Schedule

• We will comply with our Insurance Company’s accident reporting requirements

We will review this policy and OH&S objectives periodically to ensure it remains relevant and appropriate to our operations.

To demonstrate our commitment to OH&S we have implemented a Health & Safety Management System to the standard of OHSAS18001:2007 and we are also committed to continually improving the effectiveness of this system.

The above policy is explained to, understood and adopted by all staff and contractors under the control of the company and is also made available to all interested parties.