Health & Safety
At DBCT we recognise that safety is felt by our people as a combination of their physical, social and psychological experience. We experience safe work when we not only have a well-designed physical environment, but also quality relationships with our workmates and leaders, a strong sense of belonging within a team, and our individual mental and physical wellbeing is thriving. At DBCT we define safety as being:
Freedom from the risk of harm that is experienced by our people as visible leadership, empowered teams and well-designed work.
Our Approach to Safety
Our Safety Transformation Strategy provides us with a roadmap towards our aspirational state of being a High Reliability Organisation. This strategy acknowledges that failure does occur, and builds robust mechanisms to anticipate, detect, respond and recover from failure with the aim of failing to a safe state where harm is avoided.
DBCT’s approach to safety, and commitment to realise our definition of safety, is characterised by the following principles that shape our behaviour as an organisation:
1. Reluctance to Simplify Interpretations (looking further than human error)
2. Preoccupation with Failure (a shared sense of alertness, healthy unease)
3. Deference to Expertise (decision making at the right level at the right times)
4. Sensitivity to Operations (frontline workers knowledge of how success and failures occur)
5. Commitment to Resilience (capacity to fail to safe: identify, respond, recover)
DBCT respects that quality consultation with the workforce is essential to our safety objectives and operates a Health & Safety Steering Committee to ensure this occurs.
We maintain and continually improve a Health a Safety Management System that is certified to ISO45001 and operate a comprehensive Material Risk Management program that is aligned to ICMM Guidelines.