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Safety, Health, Environment and Quality (SHEQ)
At BOC we aim to ensure there is no harm to people or the environment due to our operations, or through the use of our products or services.
While our safety and environmental performance consistently achieves best-in-class levels, we are constantly working to improve still further. Continuous improvement is a key priority in all our efforts.
We manage safety and environment alongside our health, quality, product stewardship and security programmes. Yet while our Safety, Health Environment and Quality (SHEQ) function has oversight of all these activities, accountability and responsibility for performance sits squarely within the various operating and commercial arms of the organisation - and every person in the organisation.
Our programmes are comprehensive, being designed to ensure the effective management of issues as diverse as the control of major hazards on large plants, reducing the carbon footprint of our products and services, preventing injuries from manual handling or slips, trips and falls, through to defensive driver training in our 1000+ vehicle fleet.
In general terms, we manage SHEQ through four main areas of activity:
- an integrated management system
- well designed, operated and maintained plant and equipment
- ensuring we have competent, engaged and empowered people
- quality products and services supported by the right information and support
We do all this with the vital involvement of key stakeholders including government agencies and non-government organisations - and most importantly the ongoing support of our customers and the communities within which we operate.
Performance
SHEQ performance can be measured in many different ways. A commonly used safety measure is the number of injuries resulting in a person not able to attend work for at least one shift following the incident. BOC in Ireland had a lost time injury frequency rate (LTIFR) of 1.37 lost time injuries per million hours in 2008.
- Safety underpins everything we do at BOC. While our products are used in virtually every industry and market sector quite safely every day of the year, they must be used correctly. That also goes for their manufacture and distribution. Read more about safety at BOC
- BOC recognises that good health is necessary for good business and thus several health and wellbeing programmes are provided for staff. These underpin our commitment to prevent harm and to protect and maintain the health of employees. Read more about health at BOC
- BOC's Environmental Vision is clear - We aim to do no harm to the environment. Maintaining high levels of environmental performance and reporting are the responsibility of all functions within BOC. In addition, each BOC employee is asked to keep a watch on our actual or potential impact on the environment. Read more about environment at BOC
- As the leading supplier of industrial, food, medical and special gases in Ireland as well as associated equipment and services, we aim to ensure the highest levels of quality in everything we do. Read more about quality at BOC
