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- 1. The Sydney Water Safety Commitment & Life Saving Rules Information Session
- 2. Lifestream strategy and values Safety and wellbeing is a core value at Sydney Water Setting expectations of each other is important to ensure everyone goes home safe and well everyday Commitment and safe behaviours is critical
- 4. Our actual performance Hmm…why is our performance results not reflecting our commitment to health and safety? 83 % agree that our manager is interested in our health and safety 59% of staff would always speak up if we saw somebody working unsafely 53% believe we have the time and resources to do the job safely
- 5. Presentation Name l Date 9Lifesaving Rules MANAGEMENT FRONTLINE ACCOUNTABILITY MINIMUMSTANDARDS How do we better support and enable you?
- 6. What are the Lifesaving Rules? Safety & Wellbeing Update Nine (9) rules that define areas of conduct and that must be followed at all times The rules explicitly set out critical behaviours we all expect of all Sydney Water staff and contractors Form part of existing operational processes and procedures however are so important they need to be highlighted Focus on activities that have the highest potential threat of serious injury
- 7. Presentation Name l Date Life Saving rules should not be confused with the 16 Fatal Hazard Standards. Lifesaving Rules: Critical behaviours and actions that must be maintained by all staff and contractors in the workplace. Fatal Risk Standards: Minimum system and condition requirements for the management of fatal hazards that must be implemented by all Sydney Water business areas. What are the Lifesaving Rules?
- 8. Presentation Name l Date 9Lifesaving Rules Why are Lifesaving Rules needed? It’s simple…. Unsafe behaviours expose everyone in the work to a high risk of injury or fatality We operate in high risk work environments Support and protect you Prevent serious and fatal injuries
- 9. The Sydney Water Lifesaving Rules 1. Never touch your mobile phone when operating a vehicle or mobile plant 2. Always use fall protection when working at heights when required 3. Always verify isolation of all energy sources prior to commencing work 4. Always obtain authorisation before entering a confined space 5. Always identify utility services and implement controls, including safe clearances 6. Never walk under a suspended load 7. Always comply with permit to work requirements 8. Never modify or move a safety device or an approved control without authorisation 9. Never work in an excavation deeper than 1.5 metres unless it has been sloped, benched or shored.
- 10. Your responsibility If a rule is or has the potential to be breached – speak up, stop work, report, review process Commitment statements and Lifesaving rules l 2017 Reward and recognise safe behaviours Any behaviour that breaches a Lifesaving Rule will be investigated and managed as a violation in a fair and just way.
- 11. Recap key points Sydney Water management are committed to your safety and wellbeing We need to support and listen to each other to keep us safe and well 9 Life Saving Rules have been developed to help protect you Take a proactive approach. If a rule has the potential to be breached – speak up, stop work, report and review the process The Life Saving Rules apply to all staff and contractors
Editor's Notes
- This session is about Sydney Waters commitment to safety and the introduction of the lifesaving rules that Sydney Water are putting in place to help protect us. As we know our Safety and wellbeing is a key organisational value of Sydney Water - something we stand for. Currently we have six commitment statements that represent the Sydney Waters commitment to the safety of all of us.
- In July 2014, our Lifestream strategy was launched and with it, 5 new values. The values are what we think are important – what we stand for as an organisation. So it’s vital that if we say they are important, that we “walk the talk”. We embed them in our ways of working. When we make a commitment to Safety and Wellbeing at Sydney Water, we commit to safe behaviours and a positive culture that enable us to look out for not only ourselves but one another so everyone goes home safe and well everyday.
- These 6 commitment statements are not new but remain ever so important in guiding our decisions and behaviours at work. The commitment statements have been introduced from our management as a commitment to you to keep you safe. They provide clear expectations that we need to hold our management and each other accountable for. Go through each commitment with the group. Discuss how they relate to what they do at work.
- However there is a gap. Why does our performance not reflect our commitment? Explore and discuss with your team. Its you the frontline staff who drive our safety performance. Your contribution is key to our success. In order to deliver performance we need to set you up for success, supporting and enabling you much better. So how do we do this?
- With commitment statements applicable to everyone but having a management focus - one of the ways is setting some clear rules and behavioural expectations. This may come across punitive in nature - setting rules and expectations. However, at the end of the day we operate in some high risk work environments so the rules provide an important framework to help protect you.
- Run through slide notes. Acknowledge the history of development for the rules. The development of the Life Saving rules involved: - The research and review of similar rules set by other organisations/industries - The analysis of Sydney Water historical incident data and current incident data - Focus group sessions with over 1000 frontline staff. - Senior Leadership team workshops
- Currently the existing Corporate Work Health and Safety Management system and more specifically the 16 Fatal Risk Standards provides minimum system requirements for WHS risk management, however this is no mechanism that exclusively stipulates critical behaviours for significant risks associated with Sydney Water activitie
- We know through our history and experience the different types of behaviours that hurt our people and do not want any incident to result a serious or fatal outcome. Due to the complex and high risk nature of our work we cannot only rely on on procedures and guidelines. The rules draw a line in the sand setting behavioural expectations to protect each other and manage our operational risks. Setting behavioural expectations is one of many important ways to manage our operational risk profile. Acknowledge the lifesaving rules concept is used in many other organisations and this is also about bringing Sydney Water inline with industry best practice.
- The Lifesaving Rules will be implemented and communicated business wide to ensure the consistent application of specific controls across Sydney Water. Discuss and run through the lifesaving rules.
- Often when we think of rules its natural for words such as discipline and punishment. However we can use them in the proactive sense supporting their implementation in the planning, training and pre-stage stages of our work. If a rule has the potential to be breached speak up, stop work, report to your supervisor and review the work process. We also need to ensure we reward and recognise good safe behaviours. Given how important these rules are and the role they play in protecting us there needs to be consequences for when they are broken. Any behaviour that breaches a Lifesaving Rule will be investigated and managed as a violation in a fair and just way. Link the management of unsafe behaviours to the just and fair process – providence a framework and approach that staff should follow dealing with safe and unsafe behaviours. Please familiarise yourself with the fair and just process to be able to discuss this.
- Recap main takeaways from session and talk through questions/concerns Sydney water are committed to the safety and wellbeing of all staff. This is reflected through 9 commitment statements endorsed by our management that guide our decisions and behaviours at work. We need to enable, support and listen to each other better to each other to keep us safe and well. 9 lifesaving rules have been developed to help protect you. Lifesaving rules apply to all staff and contractors. Any breach will be managed as a violation in just and fair way. However, these rules should also be viewed in a proactive sense. If a rule has the potential to be breached – speak up, stop work, report and review the process.