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Safety policy

The occupational health and safety of employees is of primary importance to Simmers. The Company's Health and Safety Policy is based on the belief that employees have a right to work in a safe environment and effective management of occupational health and safety is a prime company objective.

Simmer & Jack is committed to the following key principles and objectives:

• Preventing occupational accidents and diseases and other work related adverse health effects by the adoption of a 'total compliance' approach.
• Complying with all relevant legal requirements pertaining to occupational health and safety as a minimum standard.
• Ensuring that all its operations have appropriate policies, procedures and facilities so that such standards can be achieved.
• Integrating occupational health and safety into the company's overall management structure and business performance.
• Ensuring that employees and employee representatives are consulted and participate actively at all levels of the occupational health and safety process.
• Implementing and sustaining a programme of general awareness and training so as to ensure that both management and workers remain competent to carry out their assigned duties and responsibilities.
• Informing workers of their rights and ensuring that they understand such rights.
• Allocating reasonable resources to implement and perpetuate the occupational health and safety system.
• Co-operating with all health and safety agencies.
• Implementing a system of audit and review to enhance continual improvement in performance of the occupational health and safety system and conducting regular reviews of conformance at Board level.
• Implementing a risk assessment process that will effect appropriate risk management and assessment through elimination, reduction or control.