WORK, HEALTH & SAFETY POLICY
Wescorp recognises the importance of providing all employees, customers, visitors and contractors with a safe and healthy working environment. The management and staff are dedicated in ensuring that its operations are in compliance with existing legislations and work, health & safety (WHS) system in place.
Also, Wescorp is committed to continuously improve its procedures and WHS system through the active participation and cooperation of its employees to raise awareness about work, health & safety practices.
Wescorp’s top management is responsible for:
- Maintaining safe working environment (office & factory), processes, equipment and facilities for welfare of all staff
- Complying to relevant work, health & safety legislations
- Maintaining standard routine inspections to minimize or eliminate injury and hazard/risk exposures
- Providing any information, instruction, training, resources, and supervision for awareness of proper work, health & safety practices
- Communicating with staff any work, health & safety related matters and issues
- Setting and implementing work, health & safety objectives that are relevant to the nature of Wescorp’s industry
Wescorp encourages its staff, visitors and contractors in:
- Ensuring their own personal health and safety and that of others
- Following all work, health & safety procedures as well as guidelines
- Reporting all known or observed workplace injury, hazard/risk or concern
- Participating actively and cooperating to all health & safety activities along with its improvements
- Adhering to the company’s policy statement and health & safety system
Our Work, Health and Safety Policy statement is a public document and part of our induction training for New Staff, Visitors and Contractors. The policy is reviewed annually as part of Wescorp’s Management Review meeting and commitment to continuous improvement in work, health & safety management.
QUALITY & ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
The focus of Wescorp Sandalwood, its management and its interested related parties is to:
- Produce high quality sandalwood products to be exported to the world as per required consumer requirements while maintaining responsible quality & environment management.
- Provide sandalwood services including analytical laboratory services and technical reports to the Wescorp Group and independent stakeholders.
- Remain continuously committed in preventing all types of pollution that may occur from our operational activities as well as supporting the sustainability, research study and development projects for sandalwood with various stakeholders including plantations to ensure the long-term protection of the sandalwood (spicatum) and its industry.
- Maintain a high standard of community and business ethics within all aspects of our operation, including quality, environmental awareness, sustainability and compliance with our ISO certification and all applicable legal requirements and other requirements.
- Acknowledge, implement and maintain responsible quality and environmental management in all our practices and everyday work operations by constantly reviewing quality along with environmental requirements, hazards as well as standards with both clients and suppliers.
- Set and constantly review our objectives and targets on developing high-quality products to comply with client specifications minimizing product defects, customer complaints and environmental hazards brought by Wescorp facility and operations. Also, ensure that these objectives and targets are continuously aligned with Wescorp’s business goals to reduce operational risks as well as continual improvement.
- Provide continuous training and support to our staff regarding the existing quality and environmental policies as well as processes to develop their competencies and accountability and improve the company’s overall quality and environmental performance.
- This Quality and Environmental Policy Statement is to be read in conjunction with the Mission Statement as well as Target and Objectives of the Wescorp Group. A copy of this document is visible at the Wescorp premises upon entrance to the office so that outside parties may view it. The policy statement is made known and understood to all employees through the induction process and is also available to the public through the Wescorp’s website www.wescorp.com.au
- The Quality and Environmental Policy Statement is reviewed yearly or when changes to the business and its processes occurs.
Both policies are authorised by:
Fleur Coakley
CEO – Wescorp Sandalwood Pty Ltd
November 2024