KEEPING PEOPLE SAFE

Is our most serious commitment. We believe all injuries are preventable. At Higgins our safety success is achieved through the integrity of our company safety systems and the strength of our safety culture.

When people join Higgins or partner with our business, we train to ensure all staff attain the high standards we set and understand our uncompromising approach to safety.

A. Strong safety culture

Higgins safety culture is underpinned by the Higgins core value - Protect.

Individuals are encouraged and supported to take personal responsibility for their own safety and that of their team. Individuals are supported by staff appointed Safety Champions.
If work is unsafe, our people are supported to stop work and fix it or report it.

Monthly team training meetings and daily ‘Toolbox’ meetings reinforce our company wide commitment to employee safety participation in line with Our Safety Policy

Higgins ‘Radar’ online database assists staff to proactively report improvements, events, hazards and near misses. This system can be accessed remotely.

B. Systems Integrity

Higgins is certified to ACC tertiary level management systems - ISO45001 Health & Safety Systems, ISO14001 Environmental Systems ISO9001 Quality Systems. Our systems include:

OUR WORK

Continuous improvement
Risk and hazard management
Health and safety planning
Hazard management procedures and monitoring

OUR PEOPLE

Training & development - induction, training and development to role competency standards
Communication and participation
Fitness for work - drugs & alcohol, health monitoring
Injury rehabilitation

WORKING WITH OTHERS

Contractor and subcontractor management - induction, training and inspection

WHEN THINGS GO WRONG

Emergency preparedness and response
Serious harm
Safety incident reporting and investigation
Work related injury incident

OUR GEAR & MATERIALS

PPE - Higgins PPE standard
Chemical & material handling
Equipment maintenance and safety

STAYING ON TRACK

Document control
Annual safety performance review
Management commitment and review
Audit & inspection
Online database to track non-conformance and improvement suggestions

Construction is one of the most dangerous industries to work in. To help us prevent serious injuries, we have identified the highest risk areas in our business and have a set of Life Saving Rules that Higgins team members and subcontractors must follow at all times.

These rules are mandatory minimum requirements to prevent serious injuries or death.
Managers and Supervisors must ensure that their planning and instructions will not breach any of these rules.
Any breaches will be treated seriously.