Sellafield Ltd

Environment

Our primary goal is to protect people and the environment. We work hard to minimise the environmental impact of our operations across all areas of on-site activity. We engage with our stakeholders and seek the widest possible approval of how we manage our environmental responsibilities by recognising and addressing the concerns that people have.

It is our goal to continually improve global environmental performance by:

• Eliminating accidents and incidents
• Minimising waste and the use of natural resources
• Ensuring that all wastes are managed safely and with care for the environment
• Sharing and using best practice
• Meeting or exceeding current standards of environment, health and safety performance

Health

The health and safety of our people and everybody that works for us is vitally important and we take a proactive stance to continuously improve our health and safety performance across the business.

We aim to maintain a fit and healthy workforce by:

• Eliminating ill-health at work
• Minimising radiation doses
• Encouraging our employees to balance their work and home life
• Learning lessons from events, implement corrective actions and seek out and use good practice

Working with the support of professional medical advice, managers across the business are trained to identify hazards and carry out risk assessments to identify specialist needs such as occupational hygiene, ergonomic assessments and medical surveillance. Managers are also trained to identify and mitigate unacceptable levels of stress. We also run training for individuals across the business on stress awareness and coping strategies.

We promote health improvement everywhere through our well-person screening programme and campaigns on healthy eating and exercise. All locations have appropriate drugs and alcohol testing regimes and support is given where possible to employees who wish to stop smoking.

Safety

Our goal is to set the pace for safety and environmental care in nuclear clean-up, demanding the highest standards for all our activities and encompasses all aspects of environment, health and safety. It will be delivered through the vigorous application of a set of principles and fundamentals.

Our safety principles

We believe:

• All accidents, incidents and occupational illness are preventable
• Safety is everyone’s personal responsibility and it is delivered through personal ownership and action
• Managers are accountable for leading by example, clearly setting direction and demanding the highest standards
• Excellence in safety requires working together with our employees, contractors, suppliers and customers
• Good safety is good business, and continuous improvement is essential to our success

Our safety fundamentals

We will:

• Not compromise on our standards and expectations, holding everyone accountable for safe and environmentally responsible behaviour
• Communicate, celebrate and share success, show pride in our successful safety performance and act on learning
• Make nuclear safety our priority, without compromising the highest standards of radiological safety, conventional health and safety and protection of the environment
• Apply fit-for-purpose safety systems which actively support and innovate our clean-up mission and other business activities
• Be firm in our beliefs, seek to understand alternative views, but stand our ground when necessary to agree optimum solutions
• Earn and maintain the respect and trust of people who work with us, the public and other stakeholders

Quality

Our customers demand high standards from us and we strive to enhance their satisfaction through continuous improvement, operational excellence and delivery of high quality products and services.

ISO 9001

Sellafield Ltd has achieved certification against the requirements of the ISO 9001 International Quality Management Standard. The scope of the certification embraces all of Sellafield Ltd‘s business activities, including corporate and business governance and commercial development for Sellafield Ltd along with the provision of resources (processes and people) to deliver clean-up contracts.

Certification was recommended by Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance following a comprehensive assessment of Sellafield Ltd‘s business activities against the exacting requirements of the standard.

We have built a business which:

• understands and meets its customer's requirements
• uses common processes to deliver products and services in an efficient and effective manner
• makes full use of electronic systems to support the business processes
• recognises the value of people and the importance of team-working to achieve its business goals
• understands the value of knowledge-sharing and innovation
• embraces the need to continuously improve and strive for excellence

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