HSEQ
Health, Safety, Environment and Quality
At Balaena Ltd our number one priority is safeguarding the safety, wellbeing and welfare of our employees, customers, partners and subcontractors.
Our commitment to protecting people, the environment and the quality of our work is at the core of every operation and every decision we make. By working together, maintaining the highest standards, and fostering a proactive safety culture, we reduce risk and create safer workplaces across all of our shipyards and operations.
Work Safe Home Safe
Work Safe, Home Safe
Our Work Safe, Home Safe (WSHS) policy sets out the required behaviours and attitudes to maintain safe and healthy business operations.
WSHS includes a set of guidelines which outlines the group’s unfaltering commitment to health and safety in all aspects of its work and reiterates the four key values that underpin its operations – care, commitment, communication and compliance. By working together - we can reduce the risk of accidents happening in our workplace. Work Safe, Home Safe (WSHS) defines the core values which should form the basis of our safety culture here at A&P Group.
Since the launch of WSHS, we have seen health and safety improvements right across the business. We continue to invest heavily in creating the right processes, infrastructure and behaviours to ensure a happy, healthy and prosperous workplace.
Our Policies
Balaena has developed a comprehensive Integrated Management System (IMS) which is used across the business to help maintain compliance with the key ISO standards we are certificated to through LRQA.
Balaena undergoes rigorous audits from LRQA, Fit for Nuclear, Achilles and Constructionline which review our core processes and procedures to ensure that we do what we say we do, and that we can prove it. Each and every one of our team help us to pass these audits by following our policies, processes and safe working procedures at all times.
Our internal audit programme ensures we are constantly reviewing and improving our policies as part of our continual improvement process.
RoSPA Award
In 2022, Balaena received the RoSPA Highly Commended in the Construction Engineering Industry Sector Award.
Organisations receiving a RoSPA Award are recognised as being world-leaders in health and safety practice. Every year, nearly 2,000 entrants vie to achieve the highest possible accolade in what is the UK’s longest running health and safety industry awards.
Our Values
There are four clear components to our Work Safe, Home Safe values:
+ Care
+ Commitment
+ Communication
+ Compliance