health and safety
Albion Stone is committed to achieving and maintaining the highest reasonably practicable
standard of health and safety for our employees, customers, contractors, visitors and the
communities on Portland.
The Managing Director remains responsible for establishing formal procedures and policies to
ensure that a safe and healthy working environment is developed by the relevant Directors and
Managers. Training for the managers including the IOSH courses is an important part of the
company strategy. The Health & Safety Policy sets out these procedures and the policies for
monitoring their effectiveness.
Safety statistics provide a useful indicator of the effectiveness of the Health & Safety Policy.
The figures below show the numbers of accidents at the Portland Quarries, Mine & Factory:
Note: The reportable major injury in 2008 was an employee who broke his arm when he fell off his bike on his way home. As he was still on the companies land we decided to record it as an accident, although his shift had finished. He no longer takes the short cut through the quarry on his bike!
The company employs Health & Safety consultants to provide regular independent audits of our
operations in the Mines, Quarries and Factory.
Albion Stone regularly attends Health & Safety events run by the Stone Federation.