Health & Safety Policy
OPL’s
(Outriders Private Limited) Policy for Health and Safety is not merely to become
complaint of Health & Safety laws but it emanates from our determination to
protect human life, health and to keep them safe from work place related
injurious.
Following are our Parameters in this regard.
Consultation with
Employees:
We constantly consult our resources to have their day to day experiences
regarding safety risks and injurious.
Training &
Information:
Training and Information to our resources and clients, staff is vital part. The
way of training and imparting information we can mitigate risks involved. Presentation
of risks, use of First Aid and immediate intimation/reporting of such incidents
is essential.
First Aid,
Accidents &Ill Health:
First Aid boxes are to be placed and ensured
their materials replenishment at all our sites. Easy access of all relevant
staff to first Aid Box is made. Display of Health, safety, Working posters like
work in progress.
-Caution-
wet Floor etc.
-Immediate
shifting to Hospitals all serious accident injured.
Insurance of
Staff:
All relevant resources are insured (Group
Life Insurance) Covering life and injury insurance against all work related life
and health related threats. As a Policy matter, stated Life Insurance Corporate
of Pakistan has been taken on panel for all such Insurance Policies.
Slips
and Trips:
It is the single most common cause of major injuries in workplaces. We ensure
that our staff and anyone else who could be affected by our work are kept safe
from harm. Following are reasonable steps to prevent damages:
-Not
to left damp & Slippery floors.
-Care
of trailing wires from Vacuum or buffing machines.
-Good
management system to identify problem areas, suggest and act preven
tations.
-Effective
training and supervisions of all relevant staff.
Regular
and effective training with good quality materials to remove contaminations and
to reduce accidents.
Use
of correct and right cleaning product, well maintained equipment, dry mop etc.
Work at height:
There are many examples within the Industry of accidents involving working at
height i.e. working on stepladder, over-standing from ladders whitest window
cleaning or most importantly doing work on outer glasses of building. We
mitigate risk by doing so.
-Work
at height is properly planned & organized.
-Involving
workers are competent.
-Risks
identified and appropriate.
-Equipments
and gadgets are used.
-Safety
helmets are provided and used.
-Equipments
are properly inspected and maintained
Work
related contact dermatitis:
It is our policy to protect all relevant staff from work related dermatitis by
adopting following measures.
Avoid
contact with chemical products, food and worked where possible.
Protect
skin of workers by providing them gloves, long shirts etc.
Time
to time examination of staff’s skin to keep them healthy.
Environmental
Policy
Our environmental policy is to take
actions deliberately to manage our resources,
activities
and to provide services with a view to prevent reduce or mitigate harmful effect
on nature and natural resources and ensuring that all our activities are made in
such a way that they do not have harmful effects on humans both our resources
and those who are present in that specific environment.
In
this regard we have grasped National Environmental Policy 2005 issued by
Ministry of Environment, Government of Pakistan.
OPL
(Outriders Private Limited) is a fully compliant of National Environment
Protection Policy with the determination to protect ecosystem, natural resources
and human life and health as under:
Our
Policy aims to protect, conserve and restore at workplace and around with the
determination to improve the quality of life of the relevant citizens and also
to protect & maintain environment standards set by our client.
Waste Management:
Janitorial and cleanliness services being few
of our business areas, we emphasize on proper waste management to eliminate its
harmful effects on human and animal life. We undertake following measures in
this regard
Enforcing the National Environment Quality Standards and
Monitoring/Reporting System.
Introducing discharge system for the industry.
Grasping sanitation Policy of the Government and the Clients.
Deriving of mechanism to dump/destroy expired or residual chemical.
Enforcing local rules and regulations for proper management of all type
of wastes.
Adopting pre-cautions to reduce the risks of contamination on ground and
underground waste and other food storages.
Deriving of mechanism in consultation with the clients to dump waste
materials to mitigate the risks.
Air Quality
&Noise:
Clean
and good quality air-quality and noise reduction at workplace is a part of our
Environmental Protection Policy. In order to achieve this goal, we:
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Use good quality machines & equipments.
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Staff is trained to localize the effects of cleanliness exercise by not
allowing the dust to expound in other areas.
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Tools and machines causing noise pollution are replaced with new ones.
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Staff is provided masks and gloves to protect them from harms of such
exercise.
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Ensure the reduction and control of harmful emissions.
Capacity Development:
Capacity development of both our organization & organizational resources on
one hand, and the clients on the
other hand is our environmental protection priority:
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Short term programs are to be designed and implemented after
training needs assessment.
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Flows in our own systems and those of our clients regarding capacity
development for environmental protection are identified and are to be
eliminated.
Awareness &
Education:
Our aim in this regard is to create awareness among our resources both in back
offices and on sites and sense of responsibility to environment and clean
atmosphere. All such resources are trained formally and informally in this
regard. These awareness campaigns are made with and for the clients’ resources
also for integration of efforts.
Implementation & Monitoring:
No policy on papers can be ideal unless and until it is implemented in letter
and spirit. We have made it our aim to implement our policy whole-heartedly.
No
implementation of policies can be made properly without proper monitoring
system. We have developed multi-layer monitoring system to fully implement all
our relevant policies to the satisfaction of our clients.
Quality Assurance Policy
Implementation
of a detailed quality control management is the first vital step in achieving
OPL goals. It involves management , staff and clients’ relevant persons at all
levels to monitor and communicate. We have a good quality management system
intact to satisfy the client needs, staff satisfaction and above all to achieve
the company’s goals. Our quality assurance/ control system is based on the
following:
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We extend training to our employees to be deployed on various sites both
before and after deployment.
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We ensure multi-layer quality inspections. Site supervisors inspect on
daily basis while inspection from branch offices/head office is made
weekly/randomly.
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We ensure sufficient quality of materials is issued by our stores to site
offices on regular footings.
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Good quality materials are not only provided on sites but ensured to
maintain inventory of sufficient quantity and good quality materials.
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We ensure availability of ready and easy to use equipments on sites.
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We ensure availability of committed staff with observance of punctuality.
Alternate and substitutes are always kept as contingency planning.
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Preventative and corrective action progress are introduced to ensure
quality control.
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Key performance indicators are developed for each site and each resource
to gauge the quality and quantity of work.
Last
but not least is the reward and recognition program to encourage resources
for optimum utilization of their capacities.