Health & Safety

GHD’s Health and Safety management systems promote proactive health and safety management from the proposal stage of jobs right the way through to completion and handover.

GHD continues to see significant improvements in health and safety performance, as we develop from a safety compliance focus to a safety management culture approach across our operations.

Our management systems were recognised by Safe Work Australia at the 2010 Safe Work Australia Awards where GHD was awarded "Best Workplace Health and Safety Management System - Private Sector". The award acknowledges demonstrated commitment to continual improvement, achieved through implementation of innovative solutions enabling an accessible integrated systems approach.

Our health and safety achievements which have enabled us to achieve leading industry practice include:

  • A growing number of operating centres achieving certification against AS4801 / OHSAS 18001
  • Launch of GHD Health and Safety Compliance Database and eLearning capability
  • Integration of health and safety into the GHD Job Management process
  • Introduction of the GHD Safety Index using leading indicators to drive organisational culture change and management of health and safety.
  • Improved understanding of “safety in design” to benefit clients
  • 42% Reduction in LTIs – 47% reduction in LTIFR (as at 13 July 2009)
  • 66% reduction in MTIs (as at 13 July 2009)
  • periods of 2.8 million and 3.5 million hours LTI free

Incident Frequency Rates (based on 1 million hours worked)

  MTIFR LTIFR TFR
05/06 2.00 1.64 3.64
06/07 5.93 2.21 8.14
07/08 5.37 1.12 6.49
08/09 2.59 0.60 3.18
09/10 1.79 0.70 2.49

MTIFR - Medical Treatment Injury Frequency Rate
LTIFR - Lost Time Injury Frequence Rate
TFR - Total Frequency Rate

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Awards
  • 2010 - 'Best OHS Management System' - Victorian Government
  • 2010 - 'Best Workplace Health and Safety Management System – Private Sector Australia' - Safe Work Australia
  • 2009 - 'Best Workplace Health and Safety Management System' - South Australian Government
  • 2009 - 'Best Workplace Health and Safety Management System' Finalist - NSW Government
  • 2009 - Platinum Certificate of Achievement for occupational health and safety on the Southern Gateway Alliance (SGA) - Western Australian Government
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