Best Ever Safety Results Achieved
‘Best Ever' Safety Results Achieved
AE Smith achieves ‘best ever’ safety results for the financial year ending 30 June 2010 |
| 10 Sep 2010 |
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| AE Smith is proud to announce that it has closed the 2010 financial year with the ‘best ever’ Workplace Health & Safety results since the Company began consolidated national recording for all WHS events. Company CEO, Andrew Permezel, has this to say “…I am thrilled to see the opportunity to ‘work safely’ has been embraced by all of our teams. Whilst it is always our intention to create an environment that results in a safe workplace, this intention can never be achieved without the support and belief of everyone in the business…”. The completion of the 2010 financial year has seen an abundance of positive outcomes for AE Smith in the WHS stakes; our LTIFR (the ratio of lost time injuries per million hours worked) is down to single figures and the most positive outcome ever at 8.5. There were six of the 12 months of the 2010FY that were LTI free across all operations, eleven of our sixteen branches were LTI free for the year, and additionally, the following nine company branches moved into key milestone achievement territory: > 500+ LTI Free Days achievement Brisbane Factory, Perth Service and Sydney Service > 1000+ LTI Free Days achievement Mackay Construction, Victoria Service and Corporate Office > 2000+ LTI Free days achievement Building Technologies, Emerald ESP and Tasmania Service. |
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| These milestone achievements do not come lightly and are the product of a positive attitude and effective application within those branches – our congratulations go to all involved! The 2011 year has started on a positive note with nil carry-over injuries being taken up from the 2010 year. The challenges for this coming year will include keeping our eye on the ball and ensuring that ‘complacency’ does not override the progress that has been made, and the energy that has been invested in arriving at our current status. National Safety Manager, Danny O’Reilly, highlights that one of the other challenges that will present over the next twelve months will be to ensure that AE Smith systems and processes are in alignment with the new WHS legislation and regulations that are to be implemented across all Australian jurisdictions by end December 2011. These new Work Health and Safety laws are the product of a ‘harmonisation’ of all State and Territory WHS laws that has been undertaken within Australia over the last three years. The intention of this ‘harmonisation’ initiative is to result with just one set of legislation and regulations to apply across all of Australia. This in itself will be of huge benefit to companies like AE Smith where our workplaces span all States and Territories. A close examination of the detail in our 2010 statistics shows there are priority actions required to address the relatively high incidence of ‘open wound’ type injuries incurred over the past twelve months. This aspect will be addressed through branch and management intervention at the forum convened by the Safety 1st Task Force. In all it is a positive finish to the financial year just gone, and a pleasing start to the 2011 year. National Safety Manager, Danny O’Reilly. |
| Images above: Members of the AE Smith Building Technologies and AE Smith Mackay teams proudly display their "LTI Free Days” achievement. |
