How we work safe
Safety
We run a documented safety system where every part of the job gets planned, tracked and reviewed, and we are working towards ISO 45001 certification for occupational health and safety management.
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The approach
How we keep this work safe
There is a way for any of this work to go badly wrong if nobody is paying attention, whether that is a septic system backing up, a grease trap on a busy kitchen night, a vacuum truck digging alongside live utilities, or a tanker of prescribed waste out on a country highway. We run the safety system so that none of that happens, and so there is paperwork to show for it when a council or an auditor asks.
We are working towards ISO 45001 certification, and everything below is already how we work.
The system
Six things that run every week
01
Zero harm is the target
Every job is planned so that everyone goes home in the same condition they turned up in, and we measure ourselves on lost-time incidents and near misses rather than on the ones we got away with.
02
Monthly SWMS reviews
There is a Safe Work Method Statement for every type of work we do, covering septic, grease traps, hydro excavation and hazardous transport, and each one gets reviewed every month, or straight away if there has been an incident or we have bought new equipment.
03
Digital incident reporting
Every operator carries an app (SiteDocs) that captures incidents, near misses and hazards in the field, with photos and a location stamp, backed by QR codes on site so a hazard can be reported in seconds by anyone who spots it. Reports get looked at the same day, and whatever keeps coming up in them is what we end up talking about at the next toolbox meeting.
04
Fortnightly toolbox talks
The whole crew gets together every two weeks and works through one topic, usually something that has come out of the last fortnight of incident reports, an industry alert, or a procedure we have changed, and everyone signs on to say they were there.
05
A full-time mechanic on site
Trucks and equipment on a documented service schedule that runs ahead of manufacturer intervals for anything that carries or contains prescribed waste, looked after by a full-time mechanic based at the depot rather than booked in somewhere once something has already broken. Every truck gets a pre-start check daily, and anything found wrong keeps it off the road until it is fixed.
06
Wildlife and road protocols
Our drivers are on country roads all day, with kangaroos about at dawn and dusk, cattle on the unfenced back roads and wombats on the shoulders up in the high country, so we set the routes and the rosters around all of that. The trucks have bull bars for the times the animal beats the driver, and they are not a reason to drive any faster.
For council and procurement
Documentation you can put in a submission
Insurances, licences, EPA accreditation, SWMS by service type, and safety statistics can be provided on request for tender submissions, contractor onboarding and prequalification portals. Ring the Maffra office and we will send what you need.
Our occupational health and safety management system is documented in a controlled manual written to AS/NZS ISO 45001, covering incident reporting and investigation, induction and training, toolbox meetings and SWMS compliance. Occupational health programs run through our partnership with R&R Corporate Health.
See also our EPA waste codes reference for what we are licensed to move.
Need a truck out?
Tell us where you are and what is going on. We will give you a straight price and a day, and then we will turn up on it.