Health and Safety Cert.’s for Port Staff

19 port employees and 12 site-based contractors have been awarded Level 1 Health & Safety at Work Certificates, as part of the port’s work on developing the highest possible standards of Environmental and Health and Safety Management. Environmental officer Damien Rogers says “it has taken several months to integrate the OHSAS (Occupational Standards for Health and Safety) 18001 management standard and much of this has been in the education of staff and the integration into our existing management systems.”
Damien adds that the Integrated Management System for environmental and health and safety practices at the port was successfully audited earlier in the year and that this has “heightened the awareness of every member of staff of their own individual responsibility to health and safety in the workplace and has also made us a much safer organisation.”

SGS, who carried out the audit, have now recommended Londonderry Port for registration to ISO 14001:2004 - Environmental Management System Certification, ISO 9001:2008 - Quality Management System Certification and BS OHSAS 18001:2007 - Occupational Health and Safety Management System Certification.