Health & Safety

Rotork aims to provide a safe working environment for all employees and visitors to its sites globally. The Group's health & safety policy, endorsed by the Chief Executive, sets out the Group's requirement to ‘meet or exceed legislation and other requirements in the countries in which Rotork operates'.
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Effective management of our health & safety programme enables us to:

• Minimise the risk of injury to our employees, customers and suppliers and damage to property;
• Reduce costs associated with employee illness, injury and loss of physical assets;
• Reduce the risk of legislative breaches.

The Group operates a behaviour-based safety programme. This requires managers and supervisors to encourage safe working practices by:

• Promoting regular safety observations by all staff;
• Regularly asking employees for their suggestions for improving safety at their facility;
• Holding employees accountable for observing these practices;
• Providing managing safety courses for line management;
• Regular health & safety training to employees on subjects such as manual handling and confined spaces.

In all of our sites, the safety of people and property is of paramount importance. Rotork employees are engaged in activities which include manual handling of heavy objects, mechanical lifting, operating machinery and driving to suppliers and customers locations. In addition to working in the Group's facilities, Rotork Site Service (RSS) engineers work on customer sites, which are often inherently more hazardous. To reduce the risks associated with the RSS activity additional safe working practices are in place which include:

• Site surveys to establish requirements, measurements and an assessment of the potential work area;
• Design assessments to identify risks, hazards and necessary controls to eliminate, reduce or control the risk to a reasonable level;
• Method statements detailing the work that is to be done, the control and equipment that are to be used;