CASHES OBJECTIVES, STRATEGIES AND PERFORMANCE TARGETS 2008
Our Health,Safety and Environment (HSE) policy has been broadened to include Security and
Community Affairs issues. Hence, HSE policy in Ciscon is now known as Community Affairs,
Safety, Health, Environment and Security (CASHES).
Our general and central theme is zero accident,and our objectives are as follows:
"To ensure that all our operations are conducted in such a way that the occupational
health, safety and security of all ciscon staff and all other persons who may be affected
by our operations, are adequately safeguarded and that proper regard is paid to the
protection of the environment."
Community Affairs
Minimise or eliminate the number of community related incidence that may result into
operation shut down and support all Ciscon initiatives to improve relationship with host
communities.Ciscon takes adherence to the tenets of her community affairs policy statement
very seriously.Community issues and agitations will be likened to a piece of machinery that
needs to be greased for efficiency. Adequate funds will be made available for community
public relatoins.
Safety
Prevent incidents and situations that have the potential to cause injury to personnel and
damage to equipment. Conduct training in order to increase the safety awareness level of all
personnels as to enable us archieve the ZERO ACCIDENT target.
Health
Protect staff from health hazards associated with our operations. In line with our policy,
the annual medical test will be conducted within the year. Also personnel shall be encouraged
to undergo the voluntary HIV/AIDS test as we shall also conduct drugs and alcohol test from
time to time.We will abide by all regulatory requirements by the government agencies with
regard to all legislations.
Environment
Progressively reduce pollution and harm to the environment. We will strive to eliminate
and/or progressively reduce spills within the boundaries of our operations. We will also
ensure that all systems put in place to monitor the environment are working efficienty and
closely monitored to ensure that all our discharges are within the permissible level by the
regulatory agency.
Security
Minimise the number of security related incidents for all staff engaged in our operations.
We will adequately monitor the security situation in town and discuss with all our clients
before any call out. This is to ensure that the lives of our personnel are guaranteed.
Strategies
- Improve focus on community relations by the continuous involvement of the CASHES
Department and HR/Admin Manager in Ciscon.
- Make courtesy visit to host communities by CLO and CASHES Representatives prior to
the commencement of any operation in any community.
- Provide employment opportunity to the host communities.
- To continue the Ciscon safety awareness program, integrating the central theme of
ZERO ACCIDENT and Tenets of our Operational Excellence into hearts and minds of all
personnel.
- To implement Journey Management procedure more effectively.
- To continue with the CASHES Manual, information dissemination on various topics to all
staff at various safety meetings and utilise the HEMP techniques more effectively for
pre-job analysis. Improve the management of CASHES interface between Ciscon and the
clients.
- To manage the unskilled staff workforce efficiency and adopt a more pro-active
approach on the reporting of near misses.
- Hold regular CASHES Meetings and invites our clients to attend.
- Embark vigoriously on pro-active safety (internal and external) training program for
staff, release of safety newsletters, alerts, videos and HSE week activities.
- Provide industrial welfare facilities.
- Identify each personnel critical assignment so as to increase his competency level.
- Monitor staff absence from work due to ill health and the commonest ailment.
- Ensure that staff operating in areas with a high security risk is fully informed on
the company's procedures.
- Discuss all security related incidents in detail with the contractors information security.
- Manage information security activities for the departments.
- Promote information security among staff.
- Monitor and report information security compliance with Ciscon information security policies, standards and procedures.
