ACTIVITY 1

HEALTH AND SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL REQUIREMENTS FOR QURENTO CONSTRUCTION

A safe and healthy workplace is essential in creating an environment in which people can effectively
contribute to achieving community and business outcomes. We are committed to the health safety
and wellbeing of our workers. We control and assess risks that may affect the health and safety of
our works.

When doing business with us, contractors and suppliers are expected to contribute to creating a safe
and healthy workplace by complying with the following information:

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY PRINCIPLES

Our work, health and safety policy is based on the following principles:

o Everyone has a right to a health and safety workplace.

o Overall physical and psychological wellbeing of workers is essential.
o A strong and healthy relationship with workers and health and safety representatives is
essential.
o Workers have a responsibility to act in a safe manner and to report risks and accidents as
they occur.

EXPECTATIONS

When working with us under a contract, agreement or other documented work arrangement, we
will:

o Consult with contractors in relation to work health and safety duties and obligations to
determine how shared responsibilities will be managed.
o Provide employees with a health and safety workplace.
o Train workers to use equipment correctly.
o Always have a supervisor on site.
o Consult employees on matters that may affect their health and safety
o Investigate health and safety incidents, implement risk mitigation if needed.
o Monitor the contract to ensure that contract specific WHS requirements are met.

If you are working with us under a contract, agreement or other documented work arrangement, we
ask that you:

o Comply with South African work, health and safety legalisation and the contract specific
WHS requirements.
o Demonstrate that you have an effective WHS system.
o Provide information on how health and safety risks have been eliminated in work being
undertaken for us.
o Consultation with Qurento Construction in relation to work, health and safety duties and
obligations to determine how shared responsibilities will be managed.
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ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND SAFETY OF OUR WORKLACE

Here at Qurento Construction we strive to continuously improve our safety and environmental
performance. We always ensure that we have the programs, practices and resources to help us
protect our employees. Our goals are to:

o Reduce employee exposure to noise and chemicals.

o Reduce incident rates.
o No serious injuries.
o Minimize the ecological impact of our operations.
o Implement an EHS managements system that sets the companies standards for managing
the environmental, health and safety risks.

We are proud of our commitment to the safety of our employees and protecting our environment.
Qurento construction led the way in setting and striving for the highest safety performance and for
the lowest environmental impact. Our objectives are:

o Reduce noise.
o Injury free workplace
o Recycling and also pollution prevention.

ENVIRONMENTAL VRITICAL AREAS AT OU WORKPLACE

Our environmentally critical areas (ECA) code governs areas of sea point that provide critical
environmental functions. Wetlands can protect water quality and provide fish and wildlife habitat.
Our ECA code also addresses areas that represent particular challenges for development due to
geologic or other natural conditions.
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ENVIRONMENTAL CRITICAL AREAS IN OUR WORKPLACE ARE:

Geological hazards including:

Landslide-prone: prone areas including steep slope areas, potential and known landslide areas

Liquefaction : prone areas (site with loose, saturated soil that loose the strength needed to
support a building during earthquakes)

Peat : settlement prone areas (site containing peat and organic soils that may settle when
the area is developed)

Wetlands

Flood-prone areas

Fish and wildlife habitat conservation areas including:

o Riparian watercourses (all streams, oceans and lakes)

o Areas designated by our director as habitat for species of local importance.
o Corridors connecting priority habitats and species areas or habitat areas for species of local
importance, when certain criteria are met.
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WORKPLACE DEVIATIONS DURING INSPECTION

Workplace deviance may be described as the intentional desire to cause harm to an organisation,
more specifically a workplace. It can be expressed in many ways. Employees can engage in minor,
extreme, nonviolent or violent behaviour, which ultimately leads to an organisations decline in
productivity. Deviations found during inspections are; interpersonal and organisational deviance
which are directed differently. Both cause harm to an organisation.

INTERPERSONAL DEVIANCE

This deviance happens when misconduct targets specific stakeholders such as co-workers. Behaviour
falling within this subgroup of employee deviance includes gossiping about co-workers and assigning
blame to them. These behaviours, directed at others, are believed to occur as some employees
perceive a sense of entitlement often associated with exploitation. They feel the need to misbehave
in ways that will benefit them.

ORGANISATIONAL DEVIANCE

It encompasses production and property deviance. Workplace deviant behaviour may be expressed
as tardiness or excessive absenteeism. These behaviours are seen as withdrawal behaviours and
they allow employees to withdraw physically and emotionally from the organisation.

SILENCE

Employee silence is also a deviant behaviour found in the workplace when an employee intentionally
or unintentionally withholds any kind of information that might be useful to the organisation.

PRODUCTION DEVIANCE

This is a behaviour that violates formally prescribed organisational norms with respect to minimal
quality and quality of work to be accomplished as part of the job.

PROPERTY DEVIANCE

This is where employees either damage or acquire tangible assets without authorisation. It involves
theft but may include sabotage, intentional errors in work, misusing expense accounts.

Deviant behaviour can be much more extreme, involving sexual harassment and even violence. All
these deviant behaviours create problems for the organisation.
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ACTIVITY 2

REPORT ON COMPLIANCE WITH HEALTH AND SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS

TO: THE DIRECTOR

FROM: TYRESE

DATE: 26/11/2019

A report on compliance with the health and safety and environment requirements, objections and
goals.

I have conducted an inspection on the compliance Qurento Construction with the health, safety and
environmental requirements, objectives and goals. Results of my inspection shown that Qurento
construction is committed to health and safety and most important the wellbeing of their
employees. A safe and healthy workplace is essential for them

This report provides details that Qurento Construction’s work, health and safety (WHS) policy is
based on the following principles:

o Workers have a responsibility to report risks and accidents.

o Everyone has a right to a safe and healthy workplace.
o It is essential to have a strong relationship with workers and health and safety
o Physical and psychological wellbeing is essential in creating a productive workplace.

When working with Qurento Construction under a contract, agreement or other documented work
agreement, the company will:

o Consult with contractors in relation to work health and safety duties and obligations to
determine how shared responsibilities will be managed.
o Provide employees with a health and safety workplace.
o Train workers to use equipment correctly.
o Always have a supervisor on site.
o Consult employees on matters that may affect their health and safety
o Investigate health and safety incidents, implement risk mitigation if needed.
o Monitor the contract to ensure that contract specific WHS requirements are met.
o During the inspection I have found out that when working with Qurento Construction under
a contract, agreement or other documented work arrangement, they ask the contractor to:
Comply with South African work, health and safety legalisation and the contract specific
WHS requirements.
o Demonstrate that you have an effective WHS system.
o Provide information on how health and safety risks have been eliminated in work being
undertaken for us.
o Consultation with Qurento Construction in relation to work, health and safety duties and
obligations to determine how shared responsibilities will be managed.
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