SOUNDING THE DEATH KNELL ON FATAL RISK FM Conway’s Andrew Cox explains how the organisation will eliminate the 10 biggest fatal risks in the business inside 10 years
Andrew Cox Safety, Health, Environment and Quality Director
Last year FM Conway launched a health and safety strategy like no other. It was a transformational approach that prioritises the greatest health and safety risks to the business in order to help the company achieve its vision for all people to go home safe each day without life-changing harm. But it was more than that. It was a step change-moving away from the more traditional approach using behavioural safety to something that was going to have an immediate positive impact on improving health, safety and wellbeing at FM Conway. The strategy has a bold ambition, shaped by an indepth risk analysis of both the business and the industry to identify gaps in any previous health and safety approaches, as well as looking at the tools and measurement controls required to monitor and evaluate the true operational performance of the business and not just the lagging measuring the absence of harm.
but where that is not possible, a number of safety critical controls will be put in place for each Big Risk activity, in order to create an environment where people can fail safely and learn rather than pay the ultimate price for a mistake. It is very important that this new approach is sustainable for the business and that is why it will take full advantage of digital and technological advances to provide a high level of physical, electrical and mechanical protection for the biggest risks. FM Conway has categorised its Big Ten Risks as the following:
Isolation and Guarding Occupational Health Temporary Works Lifting Operations Traffic and Pedestrian Interface Safe Digging Practices Occupational Road Risk Subcontractor Control Confined Spaces Working at Height
Elimination of the risk is the ultimate aim for FM Conway,
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