SAFETY IS NO ACCIDENT

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SAFETY IS NO ACCIDENT
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John SherwoodDirector of SHE QualityE E
Limited,(A Royal Vopak Company)
A Company s Approach to Distribution Safety
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Company details

• Royal Vopak
• - approx 12,000 employees worldwide
• - Sales in chemical distribution of EUR 4.9
  billion
• Vopak Chemical Distribution Europe
• - app 2600 employees in Europe
• - Sales of EUR 1.7 billion
• E E Limited
• - app 900 employees in UK at 16 operating
  locations

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Chemical distribution activities

• Own premises
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• Transport (own hired)
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• Deliver onto customer s premises

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Accidents

• May occur
• On own premises
• During Transport
• On customer s premises during delivery
• May involve
• Employees
• Non employees
• - contractors, customer s employees, visitors,
  general public
• May result in
• injury
• incident
• both

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Injuries to E E employees

• Type of accident
• - Slips/trips/falls
• - Manual handling
• - Exposure to chemicals
• - contact with fixed/moving object

• Nature of injury
• - Sprains/strains
• - Bruises
• - Skin/eye damage
• - Fractures
• - Cuts

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Approach to safety in E E

• Management System
• - policies
• - hazard identification and risk assessment
• - onsite
• - during transport
• - during delivery
• - permit to work systems
• - provision information and training
• - continuous improvement mechanisms
• - audits
• - objective/target setting
• - improvement plans
• Behavioural safety programme