What Linfox is doing about safety
Safety is part of every day business at Linfox. Our Vision Zero safety policy includes a whole range of initiatives, including:
Stop for Safety
Every year the entire Linfox business holds at least one Stop for Safety session for one hour. This occurs at every site across the business during a particular month. The Stop for Safety workshops focus on specific safety campaigns in an effort to keep everyone safe.
Risk networks
Linfox has developed six risk networks, groups of our people including drivers, site managers, safety managers and presidents who meet regularly to examine key safety risks and find solutions to make our operations safer.
Each risk network is a group of employees dedicated to reducing a particular area of risk: manual handling, loading and unloading, fatigue, driver behaviour, traffic management and housekeeping or slips and trips. The Linfox risk networks were launched last year as part of our Vision Zero safety strategy.
Safety Leadership Journal
This year Linfox launched the Safety Leadership Journal. Every day site managers must conduct Safety Walks and Talks (SWATs) with their team members to discuss safety, identify potential hazards and reward safe behaviours.
Each day site supervisors will conduct a SWAT to review their site for potential hazards and reward safe behaviour, and record the details in the journal which is shared with Linfox’s management teams. Site supervisors discuss safety observations with frontline employees so all team members have a role in safety regulation.
Compliance
The Linfox compliance team monitors and manages road safety, driver training and regulatory compliance to ensure that Linfox complies with company policies, government laws and regulations.
Linfox undertakes a range of professional road safety and compliance initiatives to support our operations, employees and contractors in performing their work. We employ compliance managers that have dedicated expertise in several fields including: dangerous goods, accreditations and systems management.
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