Health, Safety & Environment

Our Health and Safety Responsibility

Patience Bulk Haulage is committed to ensuring a safe and healthy working environment for all personnel. We believe that all work related injuries are preventable through adequate safety systems and procedures which work to detect, evaluate and manage any potential risks. There is no more important factor in the undertaking of anyone’s job than prevention of injury or ill health to personnel in any of its own workplaces, or workplaces visited by Patience Bulk Haulage.

To achieve zero harm, the commitment and the cooperation of our employees, subcontractors and visitors is essential.

As an organisation we aim to continually review and improve our Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems to ensure compliance with Australian Standard 4801:2001.

Our Environmental Responsibility

Patience Bulk Haulage is committed to minimising the impact of its operations on the environment to a statutory and socially acceptable level through the active implementation, maintenance and continuous improvement of our Environmental Management Systems which is continually reviewed to ensure compliance with ISO 14001.

We aim to protect human health, reduce our impact on the ecosystem and return our sites to a state compatible with a health environment.

Company Objectives relating to our Health, Safety & Environmental Policy’s:

• Be a transport industry leader in workplace health and safety.

• Ensure risk management considerations are given equal status to other primary business objectives.

• Ensure safety systems are in place before any operation is carried out.

• Review and continually improve our Occupational Health, Safety and Environmental Systems.

• Employ competent and adequately trained personnel.