Welcome to JET's Safety Induction

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JET Excavators and Trucks Pty Ltd is committed to conducting and behaviour that builds people, sustains strong management systems and provides an opportunity for all its stakeholders to succeed.

Everyone has a right to a safe workplace — and everyone has a role to play in keeping it safe. It's important that you understand what your rights and responsibilities are, as well as the rights and responsibilities of supervisors and employers.

We are committed to maintaining the highest standards of professionalism, honesty, integrity, and fairness.

Our Management Plans, Policies and Procedures set out the standard of behaviour expected of all workers. It is based on the values that guide our decisions, behaviours, and actions.

JET Excavators and Trucks believe that ALL incidents are preventable. Our success depends entirely on everyone working with JET taking responsibility for their safety and those around them.

Risk Normalisation

Risk Normalisation is where risky or dangerous behaviours or practices gradually become acceptable over time.

What can cause Risk Normalisation?

1. Accepting unsafe situations because they have not caused an incident before;

2. Taking shortcuts or speeding up work to try and be efficient or meet deadlines;

3. Workplace dilemmas were doing the right thing may mean going against management or colleagues;

4. Pressure to reduce costs or lack of resources (e.g. human and capital) required to perform work safely;

5. Poor company safety culture; and

6. Complacency, indiscipline, or a conscious decision by employees to ignore safe working procedures.

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Shared Responsibility

We all have a shared responsibility to foster a safe working environment. Under the Work Health & Safety Act these responsibilities are outlined as follows;

Workers

Under the Act, all workers have a responsibility to protect the health, safety, and wellness of themselves and others. To achieve this, JET Excavators and Trucks requires our team of workers to:

• Comply with safe working procedures, and follow all reasonable directions given by Supervisors and Managers

• Use and maintain appropriate personal protective equipment, safety systems, and emergency equipment, as directed or required in procedures

• Assist with hazard identification, the preparation of risk assessments, and the implementation of control measures to reduce the risk of harm

• Report hazards, near misses, incidents, and illnesses to your supervisor

• Support a positive safety culture and participate in discussions about health, safety, and wellness at JET Excavators and Trucks

You have the right to a safe and healthy work environment, including:

• safe machinery and structures

• instruction, training, and supervision

• any necessary safety equipment

• consultation about safety in the workplace

• workers compensation.

You also have the right to:

• speak up about work conditions

• say no to unsafe work.

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Supervisors

Supervisors have responsibility for the health, safety and wellness of anyone under their supervision. This may include staff, students, volunteers, contractors and visitors. To meet their ethical, moral and legal duties, JET Excavators and Trucks supervisors are responsible for the following: 

• Allocating sufficient resources for health and safety management

• Providing relevant health, safety and wellness information, induction, training and effective supervision

• Ensuring the work environment, methods of work and plant and equipment are effectively maintained and safe from causing workers harm, injury or illness - whether physical or psychological.

• Establishing and maintaining safe systems of work and effective emergency procedures

• Implementing a risk management program, ensuring required risk assessments are being completed, and monitoring the application of appropriate and effective risk control measures

• Implementing a scheme for hazard and incident follow-up, ensuring hazards, injuries, illnesses and incidents are reported and investigated, and that corrective actions are implemented to ensure no future worker is harmed.​