Site Safety

Rail Tech Group (RTG) recognises that work can make a positive or negative contribution to individual health. Both physical and mental health may be affected if people are exposed to harm (e.g. through the use of chemicals, by a risk of falling, by carrying out repetitive tasks or being exposed to violent behaviour). But if the workplace is safe and if people are interested and involved in their work, job satisfaction can increase and improvements in health and well-being can result.

RTG recognises that to successfully manage health and safety it must appreciate the relationship between the control of risks, general health and the very core of the business itself. Health and safety considerations need to be integrated into all activities and operations that it undertakes. RTG strives to incorporate human resource management policies with health and safety policies in order to secure commitment and involvement and to promote the well-being of employees.

It does this because it recognises that its people are the key resource and the company's most valuable asset. Hence RTG's strap line - delivering confidence through competence. RTG has invested heavily in the training, development and career progression of all its employees on the basis that it is this, which is at the very core of producing a quality service. Competence is a word often used in the health and safety arena and is something that RTG has adopted as a key component of the success of its business. All employees have a continuous development plan, which includes training courses, mentorship, formal assessment, on the job training, licensing and gaining experience. Each member of staff is required to keep a development portfolio recording all these events and other activities outside of work that may contribute to their personal development. Portfolios are reviewed and signed off at least annually by Line Managers during appraisal. By operating this system RTG can assure itself, its clients, customers and the public at large of the competence, skill and confidence of its employees.

So RTG is concerned with preventing accidents and ill health as required by health and safety legislation through ensuring that its employees are competent. It is also concerned with the overarching principle of positive health promotion as it realises the exceptional benefits of a fit , enthusiastic, competent and committed workforce. RTG's ultimate goal is to aim to continually improve its health and safety performance so that accidents and ill health are eliminated and work forms a part of a satisfying life to the mutual benefit of RTG and the individual.

People are our most important asset.  RTG recognises that site safety is wholly reliant on the safe behaviours of our people and that is why we concentrate our efforts on the competence and wholesale development of our staff.