Policy Documents

Ready Resources is committed, so far as reasonably practical, to conduct work activities in a manner which prevents employees, contractors, clients and visitors from exposure to hazards. To achieve this, Ready Resources shall comply with all relevant legislation, Australian Standards, and International accords, Codes of Practice and guidance notes, ensuring that the highest possible standards of the safety, health and wellbeing are maintained for employees, contractors and visitors.

The aim of Ready Resources is to prevent of incidents that may lead to injuries, illnesses, pollution, environmental or property damage, process losses, security threats and product quality issues.

To achieve this, Ready Resources shall:

• consult, listen, collaborate and participate openly with its employees, contractors, clients and stakeholders to encourage participation and promote HSEQ awareness threats and opportunities ,adopting continual improvement practices in key HSEQ performance.
• manage, develop and implement training practices to improve health and safety skills and knowledge requirements of employees and disseminate health and safety information to all employees, contractors and visitors to the workplace meeting all customer requirements.
• ensure all accidents/incidents are investigated to determine the root cause and corrective actions agreed and implemented, ensuring the effective management of HSEQ risks
• continually strive to improve health and safety performance by setting clear and measurable objectives and targets for improving HSEQ performance, auditing and reviewing, monitoring and reporting performance (both good and bad) and recognise those who contribute positively to improvement
• ensure compliance with all relevant occupational health and safety legislation, regulations and standards plus adhere to all clients’ site specific standards
• ensure management and commitment to the return to work and rehabilitation of its employees and contractors
• ensure employees and contractors have sufficient resources and appropriate equipment plus facilities required to meet or exceed their work performance and safety objectives.

Ready Resources employees and contractors shall:

• adopt safe work practices and compliance with all Safety and Health policies, procedures and to report safety hazards and unsafe work practices observed
• take responsibility and authority to stop work if there is any question related to safety or operational risk.

Ready Resources is engaged in the business of providing industry leading professional services and associated maintenance support to major mining companies.

At Ready Resources, we take great pride in our work and we take our responsibilities as a corporate citizen very seriously.

A key factor to ensuring we meet our responsibilities is our Environmental Management practices, which are based upon the requirements of ISO 14001:2004.

Ready Resources’ policy objectives are to proactively set and review environmental objectives and targets based upon the nature, scale and environmental impacts our business activities and processes and to meet and/or exceed targets set within environmental legislation whilst ensuring that continuous review of business systems and processes achieve quantifiable sustained results across all levels of the organisation.

This will be achieved by;

• Reduction in our carbon footprint, with particular focus on emissions in our fleet vehicles and energy usage within our buildings
• Proactive collaboration with the community
• Ready Resource’s Waste Reduction and Purchasing program – exercising our purchasing power
• Implementation of recycled materials where possible, particularly with regard to paper and ink products.
• Continuous support and training for our employee’s to make a difference both inside and outside of the working environment

The policy and procedures continue to be appropriate by initiating regular reviews to check its effectiveness and ongoing relevance, and the company regularly reviews the needs and expectations of our customers and initiate continuous improvement activities to meet these expectations.

Ready Resources is totally committed to preventing illness and injury at work. We believe in providing a safe and healthy working environment for our employees. However, we recognize that injury and illness may still occur and therefore all incidents shall be reviewed with steps being taken to prevent recurrence.

Ready Resources firmly believes that occupational injury management is of benefit to everyone and should commence as soon as possible following injury or illness. At all times the rights, welfare and confidentiality of the employees will be respected in accordance with the requirements of Work Cover WA.

Ready Resources injury management program is a managed process involving early provision of necessary and reasonable services, including a suitable duties program, to ensure the injured employees’ earliest possible return to work. A team approach to injury management is used with co-operation and consultation being key requirements for all parties involved remaining focused on the needs of the injured party.

The goal for Ready Resources and the injured party through the injury management program, is to return the injured person to their normal duties in the first possible instance, with full approval from a doctor . The program shall be regularly reviewed and updated accordingly.

This program will be monitored by the nominated injury management coordinator (or delegate).

The policy and procedures continue to be appropriate by initiating regular reviews to check its effectiveness and ongoing relevance, and the company regularly reviews the needs and expectations of our customers and initiate continuous improvement activities to meet these expectations.

Ready Resources is committed to providing and maintaining a work environment which is healthy and safe for all personnel. The use of drugs or alcohol in the workplace may impair a person’s ability to perform their work safely, efficiently and in a manner which is respectful to others.
The purpose of this policy is to reduce and eliminate the likelihood of possible injury and/or other potentially negative outcomes resulting from drug and/or alcohol use in the work environment.
Duty of Care

The following standards of behaviour are expected:

• Personnel should be fit and ready to carry out their work duties at all times.
• Personnel are prohibited from being at work when affected by drugs or alcohol or with illegal drugs present in their system.
• Subcontractors, agents, employees or visitors are prohibited from consuming, using, selling, giving or otherwise disposing of any alcoholic liquor or drugs, or being under the influence of the same whilst at a company, or at a site that personnel are attending on the company’s behalf.
• As required, resources will be provided to allow for the random testing of personnel where appropriate.
• The use, possession, sale or distribution of illegal drugs and the misuse of legal drugs or other substances is prohibited.
• Any employee on site shall willingly participate and comply with any site testing requirements and procedures.
• Employee notification shall be provided to management if performing a safety sensitive job while taking prescribed or over-the-counter medications.
• Alcohol is completely prohibited during working hours for all employees of Ready Resources whilst working on our or our client’s premises or worksite. A Blood alcohol and Drug test reading of 0% only is acceptable.

Without prejudice to the above standards, alcohol or drug dependency is recognised as an illness subject to legal and regulatory requirements. Personnel with a dependency on drugs and/or alcohol shall be treated in the same way as any other illness.

Ready Resources Management and supervisors shall be responsible for ensuring this policy is adhered to.

The management of fatigue is an integral part of Ready Resources objectives and is a shared responsibility between Ready Resources management and all its personnel.

Ready Resources is responsible for providing safe systems of work and all personnel share in the responsibility to minimise and manage the adverse effects of work related fatigue.

Objective

The objective of this Policy is to:

• Ensure a safe and healthy working environment free of work-related injury or illness
• Minimise the risks of persons presenting for work or conducting work while impaired
• Establish appropriate steps to manage persons who are effected by fatigue, and
• Encourage persons affected by fatigue to seek assistance.

Scope

This policy and supporting procedure applies to everyone working at a Ready Resources premise or attending a client’s place of work. All persons shall comply with this policy and procedure to ensure they maintain the capacity to safely perform work.

Interpretation

Fatigue related impairment is considered an identifiable workplace hazard. Like any hazard, the control measures for managing fatigue risks are based on sound principles. The most effective means to manage fatigue is to have adequate restorative sleep. A person’s fitness for duty may be compromised by:

• spending long periods of time awake
• inadequate or insufficient quality of sleep over an extended period
• the type of work performed and work environment
• workload, length of the shift and previous shifts worked
• the time of day or night worked
• the time taken to travel to and from work
• circadian rhythms
• consumption of alcohol
• the use of drugs (prescription, non-prescription, illicit or other)
• their general level of fitness and/or medical condition; and
• stress

In implementing this Policy Ready Resources will:

• Require everyone onsite to be fit for duty and perform their duties without imposing risks to the health and safety of themselves, others or to the safety of plant;
• Prevent or minimise the effects caused by a fatigue related incident; and
• Maintain the privacy and confidentiality of those participating in fatigue management programs.

Supporting Procedures

The procedure that supports this Policy:

• Specifies the processes used to determine appropriate work schedules
• Defines the responsibilities of management, employees, contractors and others
• Includes the methods used to determine the fitness for duty of employees, contractors and other personnel in relation to fatigue
• Outlines the assessment tools and parameters to manage the risks associated with the adverse effects of fatigue
• Includes education programs, information on fatigue and associated issues, and
• Requires the provision of informal referral processes and appropriate counselling services

Responsibility

Employees at all levels within Ready Resources are responsible for implementation of this Policy.

Ready Resources is responsible for establishing and maintaining a fatigue management framework to ensure that personnel are fit for duty.

Employees, contractors and other personnel are responsible for ensuring they are fit for duty by complying with this Policy and the procedure.

Ultimately, to successfully control the risks associated with fatigue in the workplace, it is up to each individual to recognise the symptoms of fatigue, obtain adequate sleep and ensure they and others affected by fatigue seek assistance.

Purpose

The purpose of this policy is for Ready Resources to establish, promote and maintain the mental health and wellbeing of all staff through workplace practices, and programs such as the “Fitter FIFO Group” and to encourage staff to take responsibility for their own mental health and wellbeing. Ready Resources believes that the mental health and wellbeing of our staff is key to organisational success and sustainability.

Goals

• To build and maintain a workplace environment and culture that supports mental health and wellbeing and prevents discrimination (including bullying and harassment).
• To increase employee knowledge and awareness of mental health and wellbeing issues and behaviours.
• To reduce stigma around depression and anxiety in the workplace.
• To facilitate active participation of employees in a range of initiatives that support mental health and wellbeing.

Scope

• This policy applies to all employees of Ready Resources including contractors and casual staff.

Responsibility

All employees are encouraged to:

• understand this policy and seek clarification from management where required
• consider this policy while completing work-related duties and at any time while representing Ready Resources
• support fellow workers in their awareness of this policy
• support and contribute to Ready Resources’ aim of providing a mentally healthy and supportive environment for all workers.

All employees have a responsibility to:

• take reasonable care of their own mental health and wellbeing, including physical health
• take reasonable care that their actions do not affect the health and safety of other people in the workplace.

Managers have a responsibility to:

• ensure that all workers are made aware of this policy
• actively support and contribute to the implementation of this policy, including its goals
• manage the implementation and review of this policy.

Communication

Ready Resources will ensure that:

• all employees receive a copy of this policy during the induction process
• this policy is easily accessible by all members of the organisation
• employees are informed when a particular activity aligns with this policy
• employees are empowered to actively contribute and provide feedback to this policy
• employees are notified of all changes to this policy.

Monitoring and Review

Ready Resources will review this policy twelve months after implementation and annually thereafter.
Effectiveness of the policy will be assessed through:

• feedback from workers, the Health and Wellbeing Committee (if applicable), and management
• review of the policy by management and committee to determine if objectives have been met and to identify barriers and enablers to ongoing policy implementation.

Ready Resources is engaged in the business of providing industry leading professional services and associated maintenance support to major mining companies.

Ready Resource’s current business model is represented in the following disciplines:
Execution of minor projects and associated maintenance;
Mobile plant and fleet maintenance;
Residential and commercial building maintenance; and
Provision of specialised resources to the mining industry

At Ready Resources, we take great pride in our work by applying industry best practices to all aspects of our services thus ensuring that our customers receive a consistent and reliable service – a service that totally satisfies.

We are proactive in ensuring that our practices are fully compliant with all government legislation. A key factor to ensuring this commitment is our Quality and Continual Improvement processes.

Ready Resources policy objective is to proactively utilise our Quality Management System Certification, ISO 9001:2015, as a tool in achieving and maintaining industry leading best practice outcomes across the entire organisation.

For this we focus on the needs of our business with particular reference to consistently meeting and exceeding our customer’s requirements and our statutory obligations. Our quality management system provides the tools and resources for the detection of gaps and shortcomings and a framework for stimulating continued process improvement.

Ready Resources will adopt disciplined procedures and behaviours to ensure that:

• Quality and Continuous Improvement Systems are implemented by conducting appropriate skills and quality awareness training for all staff,
• Responsibilities and accountabilities are established and adopted at all levels of the organisation,
• Regular review mechanisms are in place to consistently review the relevance, effectiveness and efficiencies of our Quality and Continuous Improvement System – with particular focus on meeting and exceeding our customer’s requirements.

This policy and related procedures continue to be appropriate by initiating regular reviews to check its effectiveness and ongoing relevance, and thus, by reviewing the needs and expectations of our customers, initiating continuous improvement activities to meet these expectations.