ENGIE UK is fully committed to protecting the safety and occupational health of employees, visitors to site, and neighbours in the wider community whilst, guaranteeing industrial safety, ensuring site security, managing major risks and protecting the environment. To that end, ENGIE UK actively promotes a positive safety culture across our sites that encompasses both permanent staff and personnel from contractor companies.
No life or mind at risk
At all of our plants and sites, we have the mantra: no life or mind at risk.
All our employees, subcontractors and visitors are protected from dangers and hazards that are involved in working in an anaerobic digestion facility.
How do we do it?
Shared Vigilance
Everyone looks out for each other’s safety. All our people are empowered to alert their colleagues to anything that’s unsafe. They know how to react, and they intervene if necessary to protect the safety and wellbeing of others.
Reporting HIPOs
Our culture of transparency means that our workers report events with high potential severity.
Last minute risk assessment
I do a last minute PoWRA. One last check before starting work as there may be new risks.
Be as safe as you can be. Or down tools.
Not as safe as you can be? Stop immediately. Our people only resume their tasks when safety conditions are restored.
Life-saving rules
We adopt nine fundamental rules to prevent accidents and save lives on site. These are industry-recognised standards to maintain the highest levels of safety.
Compliance
At our anaerobic digestion sites, we’re working every day with methane-rich biogas to create sustainable energy.
It’s potentially dangerous work, so we’re hyper vigilant to the potential risks involved. No task is carried out without a full risk assessment and method statement.
We also carry out regular assessments of our sites to make sure we comply with Health & Safety Executive guidance and regulations, including:
- the Dangerous Substances and Explosive Atmosphere Regulations 2002 (DSEAR)
- Hazardous area classification
- Regulations on confined spaces.
Training
Training is the crucial part of maintaining high standards of health and safety at work. That’s why we are dedicated to training each of our employees in standards and compliance on site.
This includes a tailored ‘One Safety Culture Programme’, revolving around five safety values:
- Health, Safety, and quality of life in the workplace.
- Social protection.
- Gender equality, diversity and inclusion.
- Sustainable employment and skills development.
- Respect for fundamental rights and an active fight against fraud and corruption.
With our ongoing training programme, our people transfer lived experience into lessons learned, so that, collectively, we keep improving standards.
It’s a way to impress upon all our workers how important it is to comply with these standards. With this culture of compliance, our people feel empowered to insist upon the highest standards of safety.