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HSE Component Guide
HSE Component Guide
Creating a safe, sustainable and
environmentally friendly working environment
Attention to health, safety and the environment is not just about being socially and morally responsible, it also makes good business sense.
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Improving HSE performance offers significant business benefits. Our default percentage of 2% for HSE is based on our experience and taking into consideration the following:
  • Lower employee absence and turnover rates.
  • Fewer accidents.
  • Reduced litigation.
  • Better reputation for corporate responsibility among investors, customers and communities.
  • Increased productivity, because employees are healthier, happier and better motivated.
HSE Sub-Components
In order to understand the improvement required in your HSE process, our assessment enables the senior management team to set aspirational goals and determine the current status of the process. The HSE component contains 6 sub-components which, when examined in detail, reveal the current condition of HSE within the business and the benefits of achieving your aspirational goals. The HSE component of the assessment helps you achieve a safe, sustainable and environmentally friendly working environment. It also helps you achieve performance through best practice. The result is a detailed action plan which will improve all aspects of HSE in the business. Here are the 6 sub-components of HSE:
1. Workplace Organisation
How workplace organisation standards are established and maintained.
The foundation for a safe working environment is a well organised workplace. The goal is to design, establish and maintain workplace standards through behavioural practices and visual management. Communicating and including the workforce in the process is essential for ensuring sustainability and long-term individual and collective ownership.
2. Behaviour
How collective behaviour is influenced to ensure compliance to HSE standards.
Managers are responsible for the collective health and safety of all employees. There can be no interpretation issues in understanding the requirements. To ensure standards for HSE behaviour and codes of practice are achieved, standards must be set, communicated and reinforced by management intervention and auditing. This will develop individual and collective responsibility for HSE compliance.
3. Compliance
How responsibility for compliance to HSE standards is reinforced throughout the organisation.
Responsibility for HSE begins at the executive level with a formal commitment to HSE communicated throughout the organisation and supported by procedures and reviews. Compliance is regularly monitored at every level and accountability for HSE is built into job roles and responsibilities.
4. Performance reporting
How HSE performance is monitored and reported.
To maintain and improve performance requires a process for data capture, analysis and reporting. Local improvement action addresses highlighted issues and regular communication maintains awareness. The overall performance is regularly reviewed by the business leaders.
5. Internal audits
How responsibility for compliance to HSE standards is reinforced throughout the organisation.
To maintain and improve performance requires a process for data capture, analysis and reporting. Local improvement action addresses highlighted issues and regular communication maintains awareness. The overall performance is regularly reviewed by the business leaders.
6. Cultural Maturity
How mature is the HSE culture within the organisation.
Culture can be best understood as “the way we do things around here”. An organisation’s culture will influence human behaviour and performance at work. Poor safety culture contributes to many major incidents and personal injuries. There is a direct relationship between cultural development and injury rates. In a reactive culture, where incidents are dealt with after the event, injury rates are much higher than in an interdependent culture where incidents are collectively anticipated.