HELICONIA GROUP is committed to maintain a safe and healthy working environment for the safety and health of our employees and other persons in the workplace and/or in the surrounding of the workplace.
We will Comply with current environmental Moroccan legislation and reduce the environmental impact of our activities as reasonably practicable.
Our HSE policy will be closely associated to the company’s quality policy, and keeping consistency with the Safety Management System SMS.
Health, safety and Environment are everyone’s business, and everyone is expected to share in our commitment to avoid all accidents and incidents, which may cause personal injury, health impact or damage to environment.
Every employee is expected to act safely at all times to ensure that no action or inaction causes harm to themselves, their fellow employees and others in the workplace.
To maintain a positive safety culture, it is essential that each staff report any event or risk that could affect our operations. To encourage this feedback, we agree that the confidentiality and anonymity of the information received is guaranteed.
Heliconia is committed, for its business, to develop a fair and just culture, which is based on the non-punitive character and without blame to human error and conversely, it imposes a sanction against anyone deliberately violating any standard or company procedure.
The company does not initiate disciplinary proceedings against of personnel who will spontaneously and without delay revealed a breach of safety rules in which he is involved. However, this principle cannot be applied in the cases of deliberate criminal act or violation.
The HSE system of HELICONIA is continuously looking for improvement in all departments of the company. Moreover the performance indicators in terms of Health and Safety are defined and regularly monitored.
In the Integrated Safety Management System where everything is connected, there are four critical factors that need to be managed and are present in the workplace. There are four critical ways in which these factors need to be managed. The success that a company has in safety is linked to the degree in which it managed those critical whats and hows of the management system.
These factors and methods are all connected together and they have a significant impact on all of the other factors and methods we use. If we do them all in an integrated and thoughtful manner we will get REAL safety results that we’re proud of. If we do these things poorly we will be frustrated and extremely unhappy with the results we get for our efforts.
The four critical things (Company Culture, Accountability, Safe Environment and Safe Behaviours) that need to be managed well to get these safety results are integrated and intra-dependent on each other. They all have a dramatic effect on each other so they cannot be managed in isolation.
The four Factors:
1- Company CultureCompany culture is simply “the way it is around here”. It is how our company thinks and acts as a group of people. It is the result of our collective thinking and actions (and in some cases our inactions). In other words, the desired state of culture in the company is reflected in its mission, vision, and value statements.
2- Accountability
Holding people positively accountable to do the things that create safe production makes it much more likely to succeed in achieving safety results. Managing this factor poorly will just as assuredly result in frustration and unintended results. Holding people accountable for the wrong things can get people injured and killed. This is the fundamental reason that a management systems fail to get the wanted safety results, when it artificially do safety tasks that are added onto the way the work is done – it’s not part of the way the work gets done.
3- Safe Environment
The tools, equipment, materials and work environment that we supply and manage have a huge impact on what happens to us. The more we manage these things the better are our results. Using the wrong tool or an inappropriate piece of machinery will predictably result in an unintended consequence. In some cases this will result in a serious injury or death. The materials we use in our business have a huge impact on our health and safety and need to be constantly managed. The work environment in which we do our work or provide our services also impacts our results. Managing this factor can improve our results in measurable ways.
4- Safe Behaviours
Managing the safe behaviour component is as simple as developing an understanding of how humans are. How we act and why we act in certain ways. We don’t behave in a vacuum; many exterior factors contribute to our behaviour for many logical and manageable reasons.
The best safe behaviour management comes from doing this with people and not to them. Helping people understand why they do what they do and to manage the factors that will help motivate them.
These four Factors of Safety Integrated Management System are forever linked. The way we manage them, have a huge impact on the safety outcomes. This brings us to the crucial four Methods we need to manage the factors.
The four Methods
The style in which we manage the four Factors is as important as what and/or who we manage. The critical four Methods are:1- Encourage
Delivering safety programs to uninspired passive employees is doomed to failure. Safe production of our company’s products and services needs the people who do the work to do the work safely. Practical human management principles tell us that without encouragement, people just won’t do the things needed to help our company be successful. How could they? More importantly, why would they? Would we?
2- Engage
The tasks required to do safety require the people who do the work to use the safe methods to make it safe. The failure of safety programs can typically be tracked to doing safety to people rather than with them. Engagement gets almost immediate results. It’s a logical and practical way to do work without taking unnecessary risks.
3- Evolve
We, as humans, evolve in our thinking and our physical being. Over time we change, and not always for the better. Safety management is not immune to this natural evolution process. Over time we learn what works well and what doesn’t work so well. We learn from our experiences. Things that bring us positive results are likely to become the way we do things over time. We constantly need to learn from our previous challenges and problems in order to successfully deal with the new challenges we face. It’s natural and expected to have to evolve your efforts over time.
4- Evidence-Based
This is the real power of Safety Integrated Management system. The evidence will prove to us that we are doing the right things to make our production safe.
This new vision will help us know what we need to do next to make safe production a natural and logical way to do the work that needs to get done for our customers. The results will tell us when we are successful, and they will tell us when we’ve failed.
The Tools
There is many tools which can help make safe production: Hazard assessments; incident investigation forms; signs; work procedures; safety rules; communication techniques; emails, websites, etc. The real power of these tools comes from the encouragement, engagement and evolution of letting our employees and contractors own the safe production of our products and services.The process of creating and implementing the Safety Integrated Management System tools is where real safety starts to be empowered.”