About Verma Infra Project

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VIP is committed to health and safety in every aspect of our work. Nothing is more important to us than ensuring everyone returns home safely every day.

We strive to protect our workforce and anyone affected by our works at all times and we will never stray from our ultimate target of Zero Harm.

Via the pages below you can find out more about the progress we have made through our history, the innovations we are bringing to our sites today and our plans to take health and safety to the next level in the future.

A healthy workforce is a happier and more productive one so we are fully committed to protecting the physical and mental health of our people.

As part of this commitment to support our workforce, Balfour Beatty has joined two industry organisations called the Health in Construction Leadership Group (HCLG) and the Mates in Mind programme.

Through the pages below you can find out more about these organisations, what they do and how Balfour Beatty is playing its part.

As we continue to upskill our people, we have also built up a centre of excellence team which includes occupational health and occupational hygiene expertise.

We’re committed to achieving Zero Harm across all our businesses; making safety personal.

At VIP we believe that our long-term success is dependent upon the ability to keep our workforce, business partners, suppliers, subcontractors, members of the public and the environment safe. Nothing we do is so important that it cannot be done safely.

Only by setting the highest standards for ourselves will we be able to retain the trust of our customers and the people using our infrastructure.

• No injury, ill health or incident caused by our work activities

 We will continue to:

• Position people, environment and      sustainability at the heart of what we do
• Act responsibly to protect and      enhance the physical and social environment in which we operate
• Work with and support our customers      with the provision of innovative and effective infrastructure
• Treat health like safety
• Challenge the norm and promote      industry-wide action to eliminate and reduce risks to the safety of      everyone
• Tackle occupational ill health and      protect our environment, and through working with others
• Continue to have a recognised,      influential voice in the industry and be the contractor of choice, with      Zero Harm at the core of everything we do.

Elimination of risk is at the forefront of what we do, from winning business through to developing, planning, design and construction - and onward into operations and maintenance.
It features prominently in the business we pursue, who we work with, how we work, how we measure performance and how we encourage the personal advancement of our employees.
 

Zero Harm is embedded in the fabric of our culture.

VIP requires that its employees always follow four safety rules.

We believe that if these simple steps are followed at all times, the chance of a preventable incident is eliminated. Here's how they work.

1. Be fit for Work

Advise your Supervisor/ Manager prior to starting work if you have any health issues (mind and body) which mean you are unfit to work.

2. Always receive a briefing before starting work

Only start work once you have been briefed and fully understand the task, associated risks, controls and rules.

3. Report all unsafe events and conditions

Take care of yourself and others at all times, positively intervening when something is not safe or correct.

4. Stop work if anything changes

Ensure that work stops and the Supervisors/Manager is informed when there are changes to the planned safe system of work, or if you are concerned that the activities are unsafe.

VIP has identified the 10 fatal risks that most affect our day to day operations.

These risks have the potential to cause serious injuries or fatalities if we do not manage them effectively.

To help us do this, we have established a working group for each risk. These groups are tasked with finding ways to promote awareness, reduce exposure to, and ultimately eliminate the risks to our employees, supply chain partners and the communities in which we work.

If we cannot design out a risk, we follow our What3Things checklist - a simple summary of three key measures to be applied to each of our fatal risks. The quick and easy prompts are used alongside our Golden Rules, and should address around 80% of the issues surrounding the fatal risks.

Our 10 fatal risks and What3Things we apply to each are: 

1. Working at height

· Fall prevention

· Tools tethered

· Exclusion zones

2. Electricity

· Authorised Competent Person

· Electrical permits to work

· Test before touch

3. Health

· Physically and mentally fit

· Low/no vibrating tools/plant

· Dust suppression/extraction

4. Utility avoidance

· Permit to break ground

· Utility detection trained

· Overhead line goalposts

5. Catastrophic events

· Temporary Works Co-ordinator

· Tested emergency response

· Fire risk assessment

6. Traffic management

· Red book ‘plus’ design

· Traffic Management Plan

· Segregation

7. Lifting

· Lifting Appointed Person

· Lift plan and exclusion zones

· Thorough examination and inspection

8. Excavations

· Design out need to enter

· Edge protection

· Ground support/battering

9. People and Plant interface

· Segregation, red and amber zones

· Competent identifiable operators, marshals and controllers

· Plant standards checked

10.Driving

· No hand-held devices

· Fatigue management

· Permit to drive/relevant licence