Health, Safety and Environment (HSE)

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HSE

The HSE system should contribute to a good work environment, prevent and minimise the consequences of unforeseen events, and secure necessary deviation management and quality assurance. The basis of our HSE work is described in the Working Environment Act, the Working Environment Act regulations, the internal control regulations (internkontrollforskriften) section 5 and the LO/NHO Basic agreement section VIII.

According to the internal control regulations, the company must ensure that all applicable laws and regulations of the health, environment and safety legislation are made available, and provide an overview of requirements that are of special importance for the operations.(www.lovdata.no).

• Ensure that the employees have sufficient knowledge of and proficiency in systematic health, environment and safety activities, including information on changes made.

• Ensure employee participation so as to utilise overall knowledge and experience.

• Establish health, environment and safety objectives. Must be documented in writing.

• Have an overview of the enterprise's organisational set-up, including allocation of responsibilities, duties and authority in regard to the work on health, environment and safety. Must be documented in writing.

• Identify dangers and problems and against this background assess risks; draw up appurtenant plans and measures to reduce such risks. Must be documented in writing.

• Implement routines to uncover, rectify and prevent breaches of requirements established in or pursuant to the health, environmental and safety legislation. Must be documented in writing.

• Carry out systematic surveillance and reviews of the internal control system to ensure that it functions as intended. Must be documented in writing.

A functional and active HSE system is a prerequisite of economic growth and safety at the workplace. The HSE responsible must provide an updated and functional system, where co-workers have a duty to comply with requirement and contribute by proposing improvements and reporting deviations.

HSE Organisation

It is the CEO who bears the main responsibility to put in place an HSE system that complies with the HSE legislation at Strawberry. The responsibility to ensure that there is a functional HSE system in our daily operations and that the HSE standards are met is delegated to the Director of People. The safety representative shall protect the employees' interests in matters that concern the work environment. The safety representative shall also make sure that the operations are organised and maintained and work is performed in a way that respects the safety, health and well-being of the employees, and in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Working Environment Act. For a more detailed description of the safety representative's tasks, see the Working Environment Act and Regulation om organisering, ledelse og medvirkning, section 3.

Dokumentation and revision

The HSE responsible is obligated to maintain documentation concerning mapping, action plans, changes and deviations. The HSE rep, head of department and safety representative shall ensure that the actual HSE level meets applicable requirements. The revision is a quality assurance of our HSE system, supported by the management. The yearly revision will be documented, and any errors or deficiencies will be subject to deviation management.

Safety Representative (Verneombud)

The safety representative is elected by the staff. Only an employee may be elected safety representative. If the staff fail to elect a safety representative, the employer will appoint one. The number of safety representatives is established according to the size of the company, the nature of the work and the general work conditions. (The Working Environment Committee decides the number of safety zones in the company). Details are given in the Working Environment Act section 6. The employer shall notify the local Labour Inspection when safety representatives are elected. The safety representatives at Strawberry will protect the employees' interests in matters concerning the work environment. They shall also participate in environmental work in cooperation with the management and the employees, and ensure that the work is organised so that the employees may perform their duties in a safe and non-hazardous manner.

Working environment Committee (Arbeidsmiljøutvalg - AMU)

Enterprises with over 50 employees must establish a Working Environment Committee with staff and management representatives. A joint Corporate Working Environment Committee can be established unless the parties agree otherwise. Enterprises that normally employ 20 to 50 people shall establish a Working Environment Committee if so formally requested by one of the parties. The safety representative takes part in the Working Environment Committee (AML § 7-1).