There are a number of Safety 'Initiatives' to facilitate improvements in Health and Safety at James Cropper PLC.

• Safety Strategy Plan - 13 identified Health and Safety Improvement Programmes, managed by the Company's Safety Strategy Team, who are responsible for monitoring and reporting progression.

  The ultimate goal of the Safety Strategy Plan is to achieve Zero Injuries.

  Within the Safety Strategy Plan the Health and Safety Improvement Programmes cover items such as;

• Improve Safety Leadership
  • DuPont type training for Team Leaders
• Deploy Leadership principles
• Specific management support and development programmes
• Make sure people know what's expected of them and are held accountable
  • Directors, Team Leaders, Individuals, Group Services, Line Management
• Improve systems and Administration.
  • Additional Group Safety Team resource
  • Working towards achieving OHSAS 18001
  • Purchase of Achiever Plus software
• Risk Assessment - Improve the way we do risk assessments
  • Prioritise - fewer, but better
  • Follow through on improvement actions and develop Safe Systems of Work as appropriate.
  • Link Safe Systems of Work to Training Checklist
• Improve the way we train
  • Train the Trainers
  • Improve Training Checklists
  • Ensure competence is maintained
  • Link training to Safe Systems of Work
• Improve Incident & Accident Investigation
  • Different approach to major injuries & dangerous occurrences as compared to minor
  • Better quality of investigation - getting to the root cause of problems & following through on improvement actions
  • Use Achiever Plus to ensure rigour & consistency
• Introduce a Permit-to-Work system
  • A Safe System of Work for high risk activities Site-wide deployment
• Bring the Engineering Technical Library up to standard
  • To support the Permit-to-Work system
  • To support maintenance
  • To support Engineering Projects
  • Support training & development
• Personal Protective Equipment
  • Assess the need for PPE
  • Ensure PPE is used properly
  • Provide appropriate storage
  • Maintain, clean & replace as required
  • Makes a statement; sets the standard
• Manage down excessive working hours
  • Produce regular management reports
  • Monitor hotspots and adjust as appropriate
• Introduce rigorous & comprehensive auditing
  • Internal inspections
  • Internal systems audits
  • External OHSAS 18001 audits
  • Compliance with Regulations audit
  • Paper Federation / HSE audit
  • Insurance Broker audit
  • HSE Employee survey
• Communication
  • Carry out Employee Safety Survey 2005
  • Organise a return visit to site by Ken Woodward
• Manual Handling
  • Establish Pristine Condition Manual Handling assessments and Safe Systems of Work, integrate with JC PLC Risk Assessment's and Safe Systems of Work
  • Establish the Pristine Condition Manual Handling package of training, maintenance, investigation and corrective action