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Health and Safety at InfraBuild

At InfraBuild, we want our people and all members of the InfraBuild family to be safe, healthy and well, always.

The way we operate is underpinned by our Health, Safety and Environmental Principles, which guide our approach to decision-making and operational practices to protect our people, environment and community.

Health, Safety and Environment Principles

InfraBuild has four safety pillars to support our strategy – enabling performance, critical incident prevention, interdependent safety culture, and fit for work & fit for life.

1

It Starts with Leaders

The responsibility for health, safety, and the environment starts with leaders and responsibility is shared across all levels of the organisation

Capable leaders set the example with a visible commitment to improving safety, health and environmental outcomes with their teams. Our leaders uphold standards, take responsibility and are accountable.

2

Robust controls

Health, safety, and the protection of the environment is not just the absence of incidents, but the presence of robust controls.

It is a continuous process and not an end state. Consequence is largely a matter of chance, and while high incident rates indicate poor performance, lower numbers don’t necessarily point to good performance or a critical incident-free workplace.

3

Proactive risk management

The risk of unwanted events is constantly assessed, and effective barriers are implemented and verified before people or the environment are exposed to risk.

How well an organisation adapts to and manages risk is a good indicator of how well it is performing in terms of health, safety, and the environment.

This includes planning for the entire lifecycle of processes and facilities (from construction to demolition) in the design stage, incorporating effective controls and managing their health, planning for failure of preventive barriers and having sufficient mitigative barriers in place.

4

Culture of trust

A belief that learning from human error is essential for continuous improvement and to develop resilient health, safety and environmental systems.

A culture of trust fosters open communication, collaboration, and innovation, leading to higher employee engagement, productivity, and overall organisational success.

5

You Matter. We Care.

Good health and wellbeing are fostered through a balance of physical and mental health, emotional resilience, and a supportive workplace.

1 in 4 people will experience mental ill-health at some point in their lives, and around two-thirds of people with a known mental health disorder never seek help from a health professional.

Our Life Savers

Our Life Savers are a consistent group of life-saving behaviours covering over 80% of our critical incidents. They form part of the critical incident prevention safety pillar.

The Life Savers reinforce the behaviours we want our people to follow, so everyone can return home safely at the end of the day. They have been developed after a review of the critical incidents in our business and worldwide fatal incident trends.

Over 80% of our critical incidents are covered by these Life Savers.
The Life Savers apply to everyone: employees, contractors, service suppliers and visitors.
The Life Savers are intended to develop unconscious safety behaviours.If you observe someone failing to follow a Life Saver, you must intervene if it is safe to do so.
Where you consider a task cannot be carried out safely, do not commence and do not continue to perform the task.

We Care

We Care is our psychosocial safety program to look after the mental health and wellbeing of our employees and their families and create psychosocially safe workplaces. The program is made up of three pillars:

Psychosocial risk management

Consultation
Assessment
Controls

Mental health

Training
Response (Mental Health First Aiders)
Support: EAP/Networking

Wellbeing

Return and recover at work
Wellbeing promotion/challenge
Forums and seminars

We have been recognised externally as a Mental Health First Aid Skilled Workplace by Mental Health First Aid Australia.