Establishment of objectives and targets is very important for the success of environmental health and safety management system.
Different organizations adopt approaches that suite their needs and organizational structure.
But ultimate goal is to achieve best results and save some money that goes in different forms of penalties or lost working hours.
Objectives and targets are always cascaded with the qhse policy and vision of any company.
Most companies set the specific objectives in their safety policy, some of them are as follows:
- Ensure the highest standard of health and safety, and the lowest environmental impact;
- Elimination of Class 1 personal damage;
- Systematic reduction of Class 2 and 3 personal damage;
- Compliance with legislative and customers requirements;
- Providing and maintaining a culture of free and honest incident and accident reporting;
- Establish clear quality, health and safety and environmental objectives and targets;
- Provide all necessary resources to ensure a safe place of work and safe systems of work;
- Maintaining a focus on occupational health and health surveillance where required.
- Provide an effective system of work related injury and illness rehabilitation.
- Provide all necessary information, training, and supervision to all its personnel and subcontractors;
- Continually improve through regular performance reviews.
In line with the above, Safety targets are:
Occupational Health and Safety Targets:
Zero Fatalities
Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate ≤ 0.67
Average Lost Time Rate ≤ 7.38
Severity Rate ≤ 9.23
Total Recordable Injury Frequency Rate ≤ 4.73
Class 1 Damage Frequency Rate = 0.00
Quality Targets:
All sites to maintain an overall minimum average score of 85% on level 2 audits
14 days to respond to NCR‟s – NCR response to identify close out date – Non Conformance must be closed out by this date
The cost for undertaking each NCR works is not to exceed 100,000
Systematically eliminate all single NCR costs in excess of 10,000
Environmental Targets:
Zero Level 1 incidents
Number of Level 2 incidents ≤ 20
Zero breaches of legal requirements
Environmental Incident Frequency Rate ≤ 0.25
sample environmental health and safety objectives and targets
Below are given sample environmental health and safety objectives and targets that you can modify and use for your organization or any construction project.
The following are defined as Environmental Objectives and Targets set for the Construction Project.
- Level 1 incidents recorded 0
- Level 2 incidents recorded 0
- Breaches recorded 0
- Environmental incidents Frequency Rate of 0
- Compliance with legislative and client requirements
- No more than 5 improvements notices by client, local municipality and other enforcement bodies
- Maintain continuous improvement and minimize environmental incidents and accidents
- Maintain ISO 14001 compliance
- Achievement of 85% on Environmental audits
- Strive to control waste on site by:
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- Segregate waste
- Increase reuse and recycling
- Minimize energy consumption through awareness and planning
HSE Objectives & Targets
The following are defined as HSE Objectives and Targets set for the construction project.
- Zero Fatalities
- Zero Class 1 Personal Damage Cases
- Class 1 Damage Frequency Rate of 0
- Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate below 0.25
- Average Lost Time rate below 7.00
- Severity Rate below 3.00
- Total Record able Injury Frequency Rate below 3.50
- Compliance with legislative and client requirements
- No more than 5 Improvements noticed by client, local municipality and other enforcement bodies.
- Improve the safety cultural of all person on site by promoting Don’t Walk By.
- Maintain OHAS 18001 compliance.
- Achievement of 85% of Health, Safety and Environmental audits.