As an employee of Penfold Motors you will have the environment and resources to enable you to perform to the best of your ability. Penfold Motors is committed to providing a safe environment for all employees and visitors to all Penfold sites. To achieve this, Penfold Motors:

• Maintains an effective OHS program aimed at the prevention of injury and illness;
• Provides resources to support the OHS Program and ensures Penfold Motors’ commitment to Occupational Health and Safety;
• Complies with statutory health and safety requirements.

Managers and Supervisors are responsible for:

• Maintaining a safe workplace;
• Promoting a safe & healthy workplace
• Ensuring compliance with safe working procedures;
• Assessing risks associated with processes, equipment or premises;
• Responding to unsafe practices, environment and equipment;
• Consulting staff with any decisions which affect their health, safety & welfare at work

Employees are responsible for:

• Following standard operating procedures in order to maintain their own safety and the safety of their work colleagues;
• Co-operating with managers and supervisors in the identification, assessment and control of hazards and risks;
• Reporting all unsafe work practices, work conditions and equipment when they are identified.

An employee shall not:

• wilfully or recklessly interfere with or misuse anything provided in the interests of health safety or welfare; nor
• wilfully place at risk the health or safety of any person at the workplace.

Penfold Motors recognises that employee input and participation improves decision making about health and safety matters.

 

Effective and meaningful consultation can result in:

• reduced injury and disease;
• improved management decisions through gathering a wider source of ideas about OHS;
• greater employer and employee commitment to OHS through a better understanding of OHS decisions and employee ownership of the outcome of consultation; and
• greater openness, respect and trust between management and employees though developing an understanding of each other’s point of view.

We will consult employees when:

• identifying or assessing hazards or risks;
• making decisions on how to control risks;
• making decisions about employee facilities;
• establishing procedures in relation to OHS; and
• proposing changes to the workplace including equipment and materials being used.

We will consult employees by:

• sharing information with employees about matters which affect them;
• giving employees a reasonable opportunity to express their views about such matters; and
• taking those views into account.