Health and safety

The welfare and well being of our staff and the protection of the environment is paramount to AEI Compounds.  During the past 3 years we have increased our resources with dedicated personnel and improved training to meet the ever increasing challenges.

We have adopted a proactive stance to Health, Safety and the Environment (HS and E) and are involving all personnel by inviting them to report potential hazards, incidents and near misses for corrective actions and controls to be put in place.  The number of near miss and incident reports has quadrupled during the past 3 years and we have realised a respective reduction in accidents by 70%.

There have been many other initiatives that have taken place all conforming to, or exceeding legislation requirements.  Our COSHH control is very good with new materials and chemicals being keenly vetted before being introduced.

Each year a time based action plan is developed detailing the main areas to be tackled and through the monthly Management process this plan is very tightly monitored.

HS and E is led from the top at AEI Compounds with the Managing Director chairing the process.  Our holding company TT Electronics also play a very active role and regular two way communication assists in the development of new initiatives.

We have recently gained accreditation to OHSAS 18001, the internationally recognized assessment specification for occupational health and safety management systems.

OHSAS 18001 is designed to be compatible with our ISO 9001 system to enable the effective managment of our health and safety obligations.

However, the quest for improvements never ends and nor do we expect it to.  One accident is one accident too many. With the involvement of all personnel we are confident that the improvement path set will be followed.