Zero Injuries

Many companies set themselves year on year targets to reduce their workplace injuries.  This may sound like a reasonable approach, but we believe that to set a target to reduce the number of people injured at work suggests that having some injuries is acceptable up to a point. 

We don’t think that this is a constructive approach to tackling Health & Safety issues and believe that we should be trying to prevent all workplace injuries.  Over the last three years, with this belief in mind, we have been talking publicly about our zero injuries target.

This objective is sometimes met with initial scepticism.  But we overcome this by explaining that we believe, with good management and everyone’s involvement, that all incidents are preventable.  It naturally follows therefore that a zero injuries target is an achievable goal.

We believe that the biggest Health & Safety risk of all is complacency.  So, since we set ourselves this vision of an injury free workplace, we have continually reinforced how important it is for all our employees and subcontractors to Bentley Involved in Health & Safety.

By learning from any mistakes made we can prevent them from happening again.  Once is unacceptable, but forgivable, twice is unforgivable.  So the overall message we give to our people is simple:  If we can’t do it safely, we won’t do it.