Work Health and Safety Policy

1. Purpose

Strata Cleaning Co is committed to providing and maintaining a safe and healthy workplace for our workers, our clients' staff, residents, lot owners, tenants, contractors and members of the public who may be affected by our work. This policy sets out that commitment and how we meet our duties under work health and safety (WHS) laws. It is the policy statement of our OH&S management system, which conforms to AS/NZS ISO 45001:2018 and forms part of our Integrated Management System (SCC-IMS-001).

2. Scope

This policy applies to all Strata Cleaning Co operations in every state and territory, including office, depot and client sites (commercial buildings, strata and residential common property, retail, education and industrial sites), and to everyone who carries out work for us — employees, labour-hire workers, subcontractors and their workers, apprentices, trainees and volunteers.

3. Our commitment

So far as is reasonably practicable, we will:

1. Eliminate risks to health and safety, and where elimination is not possible, minimise them using the hierarchy of controls.
2. Provide and maintain safe systems of work, safe equipment and safe chemicals, and safe use, handling and storage of substances.
3. Provide adequate facilities, first aid and emergency arrangements at every site, working with building owners and managers.
4. Provide the information, training, instruction and supervision needed to work safely, including a company induction and a site induction before work starts.
5. Consult, cooperate and coordinate with workers and with other duty holders (clients, building and strata managers, owners corporations and other contractors).
6. Identify hazards and assess and control risks for every site through documented risk assessments, reviewed at least every 12 months and whenever things change (SCC-PRO-011).
7. Manage psychosocial hazards as well as physical hazards (SCC-POL-011).
8. Report, investigate and learn from all incidents, near misses and hazards, and notify the regulator of notifiable incidents (SCC-PRO-010).
9. Support injured workers to recover and return to safe and suitable work.
10. Monitor the health of workers and the conditions at our workplaces, and set measurable WHS objectives that are reviewed by management.
11. Comply with WHS legislation, codes of practice and other requirements, and continually improve our WHS management system in line with ISO 45001.

4. Responsibilities

Managing Director and officers — exercise due diligence (WHS Act s 27): keep up to date with WHS matters; understand our operations and their hazards; ensure appropriate resources and processes; ensure incidents and hazards are reported and responded to; ensure we comply with our duties; verify that these resources and processes are used.

Operations and Area Managers / Supervisors — implement this policy at their sites; ensure risk assessments, site inductions and safe work method statements are current; ensure workers are trained, competent and supervised; act on reported hazards and incidents promptly; consult workers.

WHS Manager — maintain the WHS management system, documents and registers; advise managers; coordinate investigations and regulator notifications; monitor performance and report to management.

Workers (including contractors) — under WHS Act s 28, you must:

• take reasonable care for your own health and safety;
• take reasonable care that your acts or omissions do not adversely affect the health and safety of others;
• comply, so far as you reasonably can, with any reasonable instruction; and
• cooperate with any reasonable policy or procedure relating to health and safety that you have been told about.

Other persons at the workplace (including visitors) must take reasonable care and comply with reasonable instructions (s 29).

5. Your rights

• Stop unsafe work: you may cease or refuse to carry out work if you reasonably believe it would expose you to a serious risk to your health or safety from an immediate or imminent exposure to a hazard. Tell your supervisor as soon as possible and remain available for other suitable work.
• Be consulted: you will be consulted about hazards, risks and controls, changes that may affect health and safety, and procedures. You may raise WHS issues with your supervisor, the WHS Manager or a health and safety representative (HSR) where one has been elected.
• No discrimination: you will not be disadvantaged for raising a safety concern, reporting an incident or exercising a WHS right.

6. Monitoring and review

WHS performance (incidents, near misses, hazard close-out, risk assessment currency, induction completion and corrective actions) is reported to management monthly. This policy is reviewed every 12 months, after a significant incident, or when legislation or our operations change.

7. Related documents

SCC-POL-002 Code of Conduct · SCC-POL-011 Psychosocial Health and Wellbeing Policy · SCC-PRO-010 Incident, Near Miss and Hazard Reporting Procedure · SCC-PRO-011 Risk Management Procedure · SCC-SWP-001 Safe Work Method Statement · all SCC-PRO procedures

8. Legislation and standards

• Work Health and Safety Act 2011 and Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 (Qld, and the harmonised Acts in NSW, ACT, SA, TAS, NT, WA (2020) and Commonwealth)
• Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 and OHS Regulations 2017 (Vic)
• Model Codes of Practice: How to manage work health and safety risks; Work health and safety consultation, cooperation and coordination
• ISO 45001:2018 clause 5.2 (OH&S policy), 5.4 (consultation and participation of workers)

9. Authorisation

Signed: ______________________ Managing Director Date: //______