Case Study | Highway Markings

The Brief

Highway Markings Ltd required a Safety Advisory to design, develop and implement a Safety Management System. To prepare Highway Markings for Certification of the SMS over a 3- year period. provide all statutory H&S training to ensure compliance with the Safety Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 and Secured OHSAS 18001 accreditation through NSAI.

Our goals were to:

• Design, develop and implement OHSAS 18001 Safety Management System and documentation to support the system.
• Prepare Highway Markings for Certification of the SMS over a 3- year period.
• Liaise with NSAI in Audit and Preparation of certification.
• Identify what needs to be monitored and measure like legal requirements, activities and operations related to identified hazards, risk and opportunities. The progress towards achieving the OH&S objectives and effectiveness of operational controls.
• Establish Key Performance Indicators like, number of work-related accidents, percentage of workers that received OH&S training, number of work hours lost due to injury or illness, days since last work-related accident etc.
• Evaluated the performance from industry statistics, bench-marking and past performances. The performance evaluation was analysed and improved upon and communicated with workers.
• Work alongside the Highway Marking to review staff training needs to establish and implement a training matrix for mandatory H&S training (first aid, manual handling, working at height etc).

The Solution

• Carry out Gap Analysis of Current Health and Safety System. The discovery phase is to review what is currently in place in the organisation so we can develop a gap analysis and identify the high priority area we need to focus on.
• Design and develop proposed safety management system process.
• Set out scope, needs and expectations of SMS.
• Establish Roles and Responsibilities within the system and document same.
• Planning to identify hazards, opportunities, assessment legal requirements and OH&S objectives.
• Develop a new corporate safety statement.
• Develop new SMS core polices & procedures.
• Develop new safe operating procedures.
• Develop Methods statement for site operations.
• Update existing risk assessments in consultation with staff and agree responsibilities within risk assessments and action plan and develop risk register.
• Review corrective actions register and record risk improvements. Cross check CA’s with risk assessments.
• Update legal & chemical register.
• Provided safety workshops for key management staff.
• Consultation and participation with staff on the ground.
• Develop site inspections programme /schedules.
• Develop audits inspection programme/schedule on all sites.
• Establish Key Performance Indicators.
• Provided Health and Safety Induction training.
• Set Document Control/Management Solution to streamline health and safety processes and documentation.
• Attend safety management meetings.
• Liaise with NSAI.
• Prepared and attended Highway Markings for NSAI sudit.
• Develop training matrix.
• Delivery of Training: IOSH Supervisory Management for Construction Manger Course | PHECC First Aid Responder Training | PHECC CFR | Manual Handling | Safety Awareness.

The Outcome

• Achieved NSAI Certification for the OHSAS 18001 Safety Management System.
• Development and delivery of the Safety Management System.
• Preparation of Contractors and Services Policy and Procedures.
• Preparation of Audit Programme.
• Preparation of Site Inspection Programme.
• Contributed to providing safer environment for staff and visitors.
• Ensured regulatory compliance.
• Improved safety culture and safety awareness.

Testimonial

The SMT team was great, they gave us a very clear list of tasks and produced the documentation required for certification of OHSAS 18001 and made it easy for us to understand everything. We decided we needed a OHSAS system because we wanted to provide a safer environment for our employees, improve safety & business performance and break into new markets. SMT were key to getting our certification and follow up certifications.

Danny Murphy, Managing Director