Port of Portland is committed to protecting the health and safety of all persons in the workplace including employees, contractors, customers and visitors. Port of Portland demonstrates this commitment through its Safety and Environment Management System (which we call SEMS) that is integrated with all organisational activities related to services and people.

Port of Portland will take all reasonable and practical steps to improve work safety conditions and priority will be given to areas of accident prevention and control, hazard control and removal, injury protection, health preservation, health promotion and rehabilitation.

As a minimum Port of Portland is committed to comply with all occupational health and safety legislation and other voluntary standards applying to Port of Portland’s operations.

Occupational Health and Safety is both an individual and shared responsibility of all employees, contractors, customers and visitors.  Acceptance of the following responsibilities is essential to success of the policy.

MANAGEMENT is responsible for:

• Maintaining a healthy and safe workplace
• Integration of occupational health and safety into all aspects of the workplace
• Communication about occupational health and safety as an integral component of all aspects of work
• The development, implementation and monitoring of an occupational health and safety program
• Maintaining a risk management process to appropriately control risks in the workplace.

 ALL EMPLOYEES are responsible for:

• Working in a healthy and safe manner at all times
• Encouraging others to work in a healthy and safe manner
• Co-operating and supporting Management and the occupational health and safety representatives in promoting occupational health and safety in the workplace
• Reporting and addressing unsafe conditions that come to your attention.

 The Environment Health and Safety (EHS) Committee will:

• Work to ensure that occupational health and safety in the workplace is effectively managed
• In conjunction with this policy a series of site rules, procedures, programs and policy statements on specific health and safety matters will be issued

Reduced disease, accident and related insurance costs to ensure that the Port is competitive and will in turn contribute to the security of our employment.

Jim Cooper
Chief Executive Officer

21 March 2012