SAFE - Business Profile

Corporate Profile SAFE GROUP Safety and Forensic Engineering Pty Limited ABN 90 093 470 994 P.O Box 29, MORPETH NSW 2321 (t) 02 4933 9942 (f) 02 4933 9946 (e) safegroup@safegroup.com.au DX 21619 MAITLAND SAFETY AND FORENSIC ENGINEERING PTY LIMITED SAFE Business Profile Our Origin SAFE commenced operations in February of 1999 and has evolved in a relatively short period of time to become one of Australia’s most experienced and professionally resourced Safety Health and Environment (SHE), Expert Accident Investigation, Safety and Risk Management Training and Litigation Support firms. Our team of highly regarded safety professionals continue to assist various major heavy industry, process, aviation, chemical, manufacturing, legal and resource sector clients in their efforts to achieve safe and healthy workplaces in harmony with the environment. Our Strength SAFE’s strength is its people - people characterised by their extensive professional and operational experience, particularly in the process, commercial, litigation support and heavy industrial arenas. Our specialists and Consultants, many of whom are recognised leaders in their respected fields, are committed to providing our clients with realistic, cost effective and sustainable solutions. Our Approach Partnering with SAFE offers organisations exceptional opportunities to promote long-term, continuous improvement in safety, risk management and engineering. Our unique philosophy sets us apart not only from traditional safety engineering management approaches, but also from other “traditional” safety engineering and SHE consulting firms. Our streamlined and flexible Specialist investigation/litigation support expertise enables our legal clients to procure complex interrogatives, scene investigation videos and expert opinion reports in a timely and efficient manner. Flexibility Customer diversity demands a versatile approach to safety culture change and the development and ongoing maintenance and improvement of Safety Health and Environment systems. SAFE understands the importance of tailoring strategies and tools to meet the needs of each organisation that we partner with. Our People SAFE have a core of highly skilled SHE and engineering professionals that have a wealth of proven experience and expertise gained in the process, aviation, process and resource sectors. The administration base of our team is located within the Hunter Valley with satellite offices in Sydney, Brisbane, Mackay and Melbourne. We put the “SAFE” in “SAFETY” 2 Safety and Forensic Engineering Pty Limited Strategy SAFE Strategy Consulting Are you unsure of the best way to decrease injuries, improve environmental performance, achieve legislative compliance, reduce Safety Health & Environment (SHE) risks to your business or get the best return from your investment in SHE? We can assist with consultation, facilitation and clarification of your SHE goals and ensure that it is undertaken in accordance with all of the applicable National and State Regulations and Australian Standards. Our consultants, with proven experience in improving SHE performance will assist you in recognising the SHE priorities of your business – from the Due diligence requirements of Directors through to system process mapping and the complete implementation of an Occupational Health and Safety Management System (OHSMS) for your organisation. We can aid you in understanding your SHE legal requirements and focussing your attention on the real risks to your operations, your employees and the community. We can help you to establish a culture, which is supportive of the commitment to improve SH&E performance, and provide leadership support and encouragement at all levels of the organisation. Most importantly we will empower your people to continue and grow your commitment. This process can ensure that you will receive maximum benefit from each dollar invested in safety, health and environment initiatives. “We put the SAFE in SAFETY” 3 Safety and Forensic Engineering Pty Limited Plant & Equipment Accident Investigation and Forensic Engineering Forensic engineering analysis and litigation support with a primary focus on accident causation analysis; identification of systems failures and the issues of foreseeability and preventability is a key area of expertise within SAFE. Although some accidents can be easily attributed to a single cause, most are characterised by a complex chain of events leading up to the commencement of damage. SAFE Principal Consultants are experienced in all facets of complex investigations and are frequently engaged by legal firms, industry groups and corporations to prepare complex analytical reports in support of matters many of which are being litigated. SAFE Principal Consultants have over 20 years of applied engineering, safety engineering and/or human factors practice in the area of safety systems and are qualified to provide evidence in Local, Coroners, District and the Industrial Magistrates Court to assist the courts in determining issues of liability. From the study of accidents and engineering failures over the years and the historical experience from our internal research and published literature we are able to evaluate your scenario and events surrounding an incident and assist you in determining causation and the essential and contributing factors associated with the incident. SAFE consultants regularly undertake expert investigations for both defendants and plaintiffs in many diverse fields including the following areas: ! Evaluation of Occupational Health and Safety Management System (OHSMS) failures ! Analysis of slips, trips and falls ! Manual handling injuries and process system failures. ! Product liability ! Mobile machine failures and mobile equipment damage. ! Machinery failure and design analysis ! Safety fall prevention ! All facets of construction safety systems failures ! Confined Space Safety including incidents involving asphyxiation or atmospheric contamination. ! Electrical Safety including portable equipment failures, fires and explosions. ! Instructions and warnings applicable to products ! Analysis of all permanent damage type injuries “We put the SAFE in SAFETY” 4 Safety and Forensic Engineering Pty Limited SAFE provides the following services to our Legal and Professional clients: ! Provision of Digital and Photogrammetry recording of the accident scene. ! The collection of detailed statements from people involved in the incident by trained SHE professionals. ! The provision of a fully referenced technical report, including scanned digital images and supporting materials. ! Continuing technical support, including the formulation of interrogatories and assistance in the leadup to the hearing. ! Secure storage facilities to maintain evidentiary material. ! Expert witness testimony for court appearances. ! Suggested parameters for settlement. ! Timely training seminars, custom designed to client's needs, to advise claims personnel of appropriate risk control measures. SAFE offers Evaluation by Experts Written Reports by Experts Testimony by Experts “We put the SAFE in SAFETY” 5 Safety and Forensic Engineering Pty Limited Risk Engineering The best form of insurance is carefully planned avoidance. At SAFE, we specialise in the identification, assessment and either control or reduction in a whole range of risks in a wide variety of manufacturing, process, health and resource industries. We provide a comprehensive value added service, which encompasses: ! Provision of Broad Brush Risk Assessments ! Development of site risk profiles and hazard identifications ! Provision of machine guarding audits, system analysis and safety systems to AS 4024. ! Provision of machine Isolation audits and Isolation verification audits. ! Development and analysis of Catastrophic Failure Routes. ! Quantitative and Qualitative Risk Assessments ! Structured Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) studies in both process and electronic systems ! Machine Safety analysis and PLC safety systems assessment. ! Development of site based risk assessment and HAZOP awareness training ! Hazard Study leadership and analysis techniques ! Emergency plans, including the development of emergency procedures SAFE can assist you manage, understand and minimise the technical risks associated with your plant or process, from initial conceptual design, through its life cycle to demolition. We can advise you on how to incorporate technical safety controls and protective systems into new plants to improve the safety of existing operations, both mechanical and electrical, and ensure the proper management of residual risks. Engineering Systems Development Our approach to engineering systems development is a professional one. We are experienced and dedicated Safety, Electrical, Mechanical and Environmental engineers who specialise in the development of integrated management systems that comprise both engineering and organisational standards with a structure that fully complies with the various Australian Standards, Occupational Health and Safety Regulations and Codes of Practice. We are not a company dabbling in engineering and safety on the side, but a company dedicated to the provision of world class engineered safety solutions for the benefit of our clients. Each of our consultants has chosen Safety Engineering as a career and has a proven track record of success. Your Engineering and Safety infrastructure represents a major investment, and also liability should it fail – getting it right should be your primary concern. “We put the SAFE in SAFETY” 6 Safety and Forensic Engineering Pty Limited Emergency Procedures, Disaster Recovery & Business Interruption Planning SAFE has developed an expertise in the areas of Emergency Procedures development, Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP) and the formulation of Disaster Recovery Procedures for process and resources organisations. The DRP platform that has been developed in-house covers such critical issues as: ! Availability and analysis of systems, including test criteria ! Development of comprehensive emergency response procedures for businesses. ! Development of comprehensive assessments and management audit trails ! Confidentiality, including documentation security ! Scheduling of the development of formal procedures and policies ! Cost – within approval guidelines and to budget ! Quality – integration within a Quality Assurance system framework and to agreed objectives ! Resources to assist in the event that a Disaster strikes an organisation ! Provision of experienced grief and trauma counsellors to assist team members following a crisis. SAFE can develop a fully compliant and tested Crisis/Disaster Recovery Program that will cover serious injury notifications/fatalities, business interruption due to storm or natural disaster, fire/explosion, aircraft emergency, marine emergency and various knock on effects from “neighbours”. “We put the SAFE in SAFETY” 7 Safety and Forensic Engineering Pty Limited People Culture and Learning The ongoing success of SH&E programs relies on your people. Training and education are central to SH&E performance improvement. The Safety Leadership Team, a vital service component of our organisation offers programs on: ! Safety Leadership mentoring for roles at all levels of the organisation. ! Health Promotion. ! Risk Management. ! Cultural and Behavioural Change. ! Team leadership and support ! WorkCover Authority approved training courses. ! Manual Handling Training ! Risk Management system training. Our courses are presented by qualified professionals using the latest training techniques and are applicable to a wide range of industries and service facilities. To best satisfy your learning requirements our courses can be customised to meet individual and organisational needs. Behaviour-Based Safety SAFE has developed a Behavioural Based Safety (BBS) program, which has been used successfully at various organisations within the process and hospitality areas. We are able to provide consulting and training in behaviour-based safety solutions and behavioural performance improvement. Our Behavioural Based Safety program revolves around 4 key result areas: ! The identification of behaviours critical to on-the-job excellence ! The gathering of data on workgroup performance of those site-specific behaviours ! The provision of regular, two-way feedback on team performance of the identified critical behaviours and coaching methods used to obtain support ! The identifying and removal of barriers to safety performance improvement within the team environment Contact us so that our consultants can assist your organisation in changing the behavioural drivers of team members and show you how SAFE’s BBS program is able to complement your existing continuous improvement processes for safety, health and environmental performance. SAFE’s consultants have a range of experience with various Behavioural Based Safety Improvement Systems from DuPont® through to Behavioural Safety Leadership Program® and are able to integrate an OHSMS program that supports an organisations BBS program. “We put the SAFE in SAFETY” 8 Safety and Forensic Engineering Pty Limited Systems Review/Auditing. Safety, Health and Environment Auditing There are a variety of reasons for clients calling in SAFE to undertake comprehensive SHE auditing services. Some examples are: ! To provide the foundations for a business improvement plan ! To refine an exiting element of an OHSMS following an incident ! To audit significant risks and ensure that the risks are within the tolerance levels acceptable ! To ensure regulatory compliance with the various Regulations and Codes of Practice ! To meet a statutory requirement for an audit as is required by insurers ! To verify the status of the sites OHSMS following a major incident ! To provide a comparison of the operations for the purposes of benchmarking ! To assess the risk of the organisation during a potential acquisition or divestment ! To provide an in-depth Specialist review of a particular area of concern, for example confined spaces, fire safety, emergency planning, incident/accident management, storage and handling of hazardous materials or isolation systems SAFE auditors perform many audits at various operations across the Asia-Pacific region each year. SAFE is also accredited to perform NSW WorkCover Authority accredited PDS audits. All auditors are trained and experienced, most having had operations experience in various process, heavy industrial and materials handling/resources sectors. This operations experience distinguishes SAFE from most of our competitors, and results in a practical approach to developing recommendations for improvement. Our auditors have experience in auditing in Australia, Canada, France, United Kingdom, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and the United States. “We put the SAFE in SAFETY” 9 Safety and Forensic Engineering Pty Limited Training Systems and Courses. Occupational Health and Safety Training Services Course Topics Needs analysis, development and delivery of courses in the field or at clients locations. Development and implementation of competency based assessment modules and training programs as well as the development of multimedia training programs. General Courses • • • • • • Occupational Health & Safety for Managers and supervisors Civil Law and Coronal Enquiries in the Workplace Setting Occupational Health & Safety Legislation and Environmental Legislation Communicating Occupational Health & Safety and How We Improve Awareness Motivating for OHS from the Shop Floor to the CEO Job Hazard Awareness & Risk Control Specialist Courses • • • • • • • • Damaging energies identification and assessment. Working Environment i.e. working from heights, confined spaces, rescue Specialist Traffic Risk Management/Mobile equipment assessment techniques Working Surfaces i.e. vibrating, mobile, pedestrian Working Tool Box Talks Human Error and Systems design analysis Accident and Forensic Investigation Techniques First response fire-fighting and Advanced fire-fighting techniques Physical • Heat, radiation, vibration, shiftwork, stress, occupational overuse, occupational skin disease, manual handling, noise, diving safety. Chemical • Asbestos, synthetic mineral fibres, dangerous goods, PCB's, lead, solvents, epoxy resins, reproductive hazards, toxic substances and hazardous wastes, pesticides, personal protective equipment, gasses and vapours, liquids and mists, solids, dusts and fumes, occupational diseases and cancers. Biological • Infectious diseases, air-conditioning, insects/animals & micro-organisms. “We put the SAFE in SAFETY” 10 Safety and Forensic Engineering Pty Limited A sample listing of our Clients. Qantas Airways Caterair Pty Limited BHP/Billiton PGH Bricks and Pavers CSR Sugar Australian Cement Holdings Melcann Pty Limited Mander Toyota Exxon Sydney Fish Market Sanitarium Queensland Cement Ampcontrol Group of Companies MM Cables CSR Emoleum Powercoal Hunt and Hunt Lawyers Gadens Lawyers Dexter Hely Carroll and O’Dea Allen Bradley Maitland Christian School Belmont Christian College Maitland before and after school care Mayne Health Cornwall Coal Chubb Australia Tomago Aluminium Impulse Airlines. NSW WorkCover Authority CSR Humes Sugar Australia Hebel Bricks Plasflex Pipe Toyota Australia Kandos Cement Ulan Coal Mines Limited Berri Fruit Juices Department of Corrective Services Carter Holt Harvey AT Flameproof CSR Readymix Boral Sparke Helmore Holman Webb Henry Davis York Moray and Agnew Rockwell International Hunter Christian School Taree Christian School Maitland Baptist Church Toll Holdings Mayne Transport United Coal Mines Oilsearch New Guinea Energy Australia “We put the SAFE in SAFETY” 11 Safety and Forensic Engineering Pty Limited Our aim is to add value to our clients business with the services we offer We welcome the opportunity to make a presentation to your organisation. Safety and Forensic Engineering Pty Limited ABN 90 093 470 994 P.O Box 29, MORPETH NSW 2321 DX 21619 MAITLAND (t) 02.4933 9942 (f) 02.4933 9946 (p) 02.49476279 - 24 Hour Emergency Response Paging Service. (e) safegroup@safegroup.com.au “We put the SAFE in SAFETY” 12