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SABITA Health & Safety Seminar 2012
• Much Asphalt is a Murray & Roberts
company and 100% owned by M&R
• As an organization we strictly adhere to
the M & R ethos of Health & Safety
• Today I would like to share with you:
– Some of the challenges we face on a daily
basis and how we deal with these
challenges with specific reference to:
• How do we work and live safely?
• Monitoring and reporting as a management
tool
• Progress regarding the DuPont
Bradley Curve
Health and Safety as a journey
• Over the years we have made good
progress in installing a positive health
and safety culture and we have
significantly reduced the lost time injury
rates nationally.
• Safety is a journey and needs all the
help from renowned organizations to
apply proven best practices that will
improve health and safety performance.
• Western Cape LTIFR = 0
Challenges
 How do we avoid accidents?
 Can one predict human behaviour ?
 How does human behaviour influence
attitudes and actions
 How do you instill good human
behaviour?
 How do you instill a sound health and
safety culture?
Health and Safety Culture
 After suffering a series of significant
incidents in the workplace, we soon
realised that we have not been able
to adequately address key factors that
underpin our health and safety
performance and culture.
 Cannot continue with same actions
taken in the past
 Drastic measures needed to be taken
Independent assessment of the Health
and Safety Culture within Much Asphalt
• The M & R Holdings board and DuPont
Sustainable Solutions undertook a
comprehensive assessment of the Group’s
South African operations against best
practices of safety management standards
and to develop a set of improvement
recommendations:
– Safety Perception Survey
– Safety Management Evaluation
• Embarked on a journey to ZERO HARM
Journey to Zero Harm: What motivates
you??
Injuries
Discipline/fear
Rules
Supervisory Control
Personal Commitment
Team Building
Self-Managing
Team Commitment
Self-Discipline
Development in Team
Self-Responsibility
Help Others Conform
Personal Goals
Value for Each Other
Care for Self
Team Goals
“I do it so none of us gets
hurt”
“I do it so I don’t get caught”
“I do it so I don’t get hurt”
Dependent culture
Independent culture
Interdependent culture
Time
Safety Culture
Progress on DuPont Bradley Curve
• Evident that some of the employees
are still in the dependent stage,
while others are in the independent
stage – great deal of overlapping
– Means that some of the employees still
need to given instructions
– Quite a number of employees follow the
SWP (Safe Work Procedure)
– Monitoring of measures put in place
Challenge vs Solutions
• Health and Safety Awareness Training
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Bitsafe Training (bitumen decanting)
Hunt for Hazards (plant & offices)
Reporting all incidents & accidents
Investigating all accidents & incidents
24 Hour Safety Alerts
• Branches operating as little empires
remained a challenge.
– Made progress – gap between actual practice and
the desired reality did not demonstrate the effort
put into this campaign – moving from dependent
to independent.
OHSAS 18001
• Much Asphalt then aspired to become OHSAS 18001
accredited. As an accredited member, all branches
had to step up to the required standards and operate
in this framework.
– This provided a great sense of direction and
uniformity among the branches – Same vision for
everybody
– All documentation was standardized
• The implementation of a good Health and Safety
Management System gave rise to new aspirations,
greater heights, greater achievements that
underpinned the Much Asphalt branding of:
“….Together we can…”
The Health and Safety
Management System
Monitoring and reporting as a management tool –
monthly reporting
• Corporate & Branch specific objectives
• Branch Management plan
– Reporting on Near Misses (40-60 per month)
– No blame policy
– Added benefit visible felt leadership (VFL’s)
• Branch Indicators (Target vs Actual)
• Safety meetings / Invocoms / Wellness Talk
• Planned Task Observations
• Near Misses
• LTIFR
Continuous Improvements
To align ourselves to get to next level of excellence in
Health and Safety
• 10 FRCP (Fatal Risk Control Protocol) were introduced
– Simple terms = 10 Life saving rules
• Core values of Much Asphalt
“…Together we can…”
• Care - for our people
• Act with Integrity – in all business dealings
• Are Accountable – and taking responsibility for
our actions
• Respect - people’s differences treating them
with dignity
• Are Committed – to deliver on our promises
THANK YOU
“…Together we can achieve ZERO HARM…”
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Safety Perception Survey
(SPS)
• A culture assessment survey that
identifies key insights provided from a
cross-section of the organisation from
corporate office leadership to factory
floor workforce. This is a self evaluation
of the prevailing safety culture within
the culture
Safety Management
Evaluation (SME)
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An assessment and data analysis process
(which includes fieldwork, interviews and sight
tours) designed to look at closely at the
process by which each operating business
current cultural safety and risk-based elements
are managed. This rigorous process serves to
help validate the SPS findings and offers a
complete picture of how our
organisational culture and risks.