HSE Policy
The founders of the ISS International Group are firmly committed to providing all employees and professionals with a concrete and quality program on Health, Safety, and the Environment.
The ISS International Group considers:
- its employees as its main strategic resource and guarantees the respect of their rights and the protection of their health and safety and takes all possible action to prevent accidents considering the training of personnel and prevention as the most effective tools for risk reduction;
- their suppliers as partners to whom transfer their obligations under the voluntary standards and regulatory requirements relating to the environment and safety at work;
The requirements of health and safety are respected by all stakeholders, considering that ISS International Group is aimed at a particularly sensitive and attentive market to these issues.
With such premises, the Management of the ISS International Group is considered directly involved in:
- conduct all business management services falling within its sector operating in full compliance with applicable laws and regulations aimed at protecting the environment and the health and safety of workers;
- continuously analyze the impacts that their activities have on the environment and safety of employees in order to ensure every effort to define actions for prevention and continuous improvement through the use of technologies that eliminate hazards and reduce HSE risks and environmental and economic impacts;
- achieve the objectives of a general nature to ensure a continuous improvement of the HSE System, to define appropriate indicators to assess the degree of achievement, and thus verify the adequacy of the policy to adapt it to any new requirements that emerge;
- provide the necessary resources and constant monitoring of their adequacy level;
- ensure a high level of awareness of human resources through effective training programs;
- ensure the involvement and consultation of workers, including through their safety representatives.
The general objectives of the company policy are:
- manage maintenance of certification of its management system according to the requirements of the Standards ISO 14001 and ISO 45001;
- continuously improve its HSE System to fulfill legal requirements;
- commit to provide safe & healthy working conditions for the prevention of work-related injury and ill health;
- continuously commit to the involvement, consultation, and participation of workers and their workers’ representatives to achieve the objectives of the company policy defined at various organizational levels;
- provide adequate control of risks related to our activities for the health, safety, and the environment;
- minimize the risks to health, safety, and environmental impact;
Focused efforts to prevent, minimize, and reduce accidents, injuries, and occupational diseases; - consult our employees on matters that affect their health, safety, and the environment;
- consider all the near misses as a stimulus for continuous improvement of the HSE system.
For the operational management of the HSE System, Management has been appointed the Head of Quality, Environment, and Safety, assigning the necessary authority in order to assist the Managers with the implementation, application, testing, and constant improvement of the Integrated System in all activities.
With regard to the requirements of health and safety, the Head of the Integrated System works closely with the H&S Manager who has the skills and specific responsibilities under the existing provisions of the law on health and safety in the workplace.
As defined in this document should be construed as prescriptive for all those who work and/or collaborate with the ISS International Group and therefore the direction commends and supports the widest participation and involvement to ensure the effectiveness and continuous improvement of the integrated system.
The management will do its best to ensure that the objectives are appropriate to the actual capacities, in agreement with the available technologies, and with the logic of the market, and should not put into question the health and safety of workers, the protection of their rights, and the environment.
Management is committed to review HSE Policy whenever it will be considered appropriate to adequate the Health, Safety Environment current conditions.
Safety and respect for the environment first.
Giuseppe Bellantoni
President & CEO