Environmental Health and Safety

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY POLICY STATEMENT

MBW Consulting Ltd is committed to providing and maintaining a safe and healthy workplace for all staff (including Contractors and volunteers) as well as Clients, Visitors and members of the public. Hazards and risks to health and safety will be eliminated or minimised, as far as is reasonably practicable and we ask every Staff member, Client, Contractor and Guest to help achieve our goals by:

  • Providing safe and healthy working conditions for preventing work related injury and ill health;
  • Identifying opportunities for and continually improving our occupational health and safety system;
  • Reducing the hazards and occupational health and safety risks;
  • Complying with and surpassing standards required by all applicable occupational health and safety laws and regulations;
  • Fulfilling all occupational health and safety requirements prescribed by the company and stakeholders;
  • Setting, monitoring and reviewing occupational health and safety objectives;
  • Documenting, implementing and maintaining the occupational health and safety management system that meets the requirements of ISO 45001;
  • Constantly reviewing the management system within defined scopes to ensure its relevancy and appropriateness;
  • Establishing a positive occupational health and safety culture and implementing processes for consultation and participation of staff;
  • Providing necessary occupational health and safety information, instructions and training to enable all colleagues to carry out their jobs competently and safely;
  • Selecting competent contractors and monitoring their performance to ensure related standards of occupational health and safety are secured; and effectively communicating with people employed by contractors to make them aware of their individual occupational health and safety obligations;
  • We are committed to complying with the Occupational Safety and Health Act 2006, Codes of practice and other safety guidance material.

This policy has been approved by the Board of Directors. It will be reviewed, and if necessary revised, annually to keep up to date and will be released on our company website. We welcome all comments on the enforcement of the policy and the policy itself.

Eng. Patrick Batumbya, Managing Director

Date: 16th Aug 2022

Plot 107 Kira Road, Kamwokya / P.O. Box 8493 Kampala, Uganda Email: mbw@mbw.co.ug