Blackwood Projects offers comprehensive construction, project management and maintenance services. At Blackwood Projects, we prioritise health and safety as an integral part of our business operations. We understand the importance of not only upholding rigorous safety standards but also demonstrating our commitment to them. With many of our projects situated in highly visible locations and areas of public interest, we are especially dedicated to maintaining well-managed, professional sites that meet the highest standards.
Our health and safety objectives and commitments include:
- Continually improving the safety performance of our activities, products, and services
- Complying fully with relevant safety legislation and evaluating our compliance regularly
- Proactively eliminate hazards and therefore minimising health and safety risks to employees and contractors involved in our projects
- Setting and reviewing health and safety objectives, targets, and programs to foster ongoing improvement
To achieve these goals, we:
- Engage stakeholders to create safe environments
- Value leadership, innovation, and commitment from all partners in delivering safe projects
- Recognise that safety enhances quality, improves productivity, and generates value
- Empower our team to make safe choices for their own and others’ health and safety, consult with our workers thereby encouraging them to report hazards, incidents or concerns and address them proactively
- Admire, respect, and recognise committed safe behaviour
- Maintain a well-trained and competent workforce that contributes to the safe planning of their tasks
- Continually improve the companies Occupational Health & Safety Management System in accordance with the requirements of ISO 45001:2018 (Certificate No. R20240168)
We believe that continuous review and improvement are essential to maintaining an effective Occupational Health and Safety system. To this end, we regularly assess our sites, ensuring that the strategies in our Construction Health & Safety Plan are implemented and that all work areas are presented cleanly and professionally. Above all, we take pride in ensuring everyone returns home safely at the end of each day.