We’ve always attached great importance to effective management of health and safety. Our reputation – and therefore our business success – depends on it. Our vision is to be trusted by staff, customers and stakeholders as a safe organisation with a record for health, safety and staff welfare that exceeds market benchmarks. So our mission is to sustain an environment that protects their health, safety and welfare by ensuring that:
- Everyone understands the issues and takes pride in consistently behaving in a safe manner
- We create a healthy, productive and inclusive workforce through effective management of staff welfare and occupational health
- The risks associated with all our activities are properly identified, understood and controlled
- We constantly identify and address new challenges to health and safety in the workplace
- We are open and honest in the way we communicate our health and safety performance, achieving recognition and respect for it as an integral part of our values and a competitive differentiator in the markets where we operate
- Vogue UK focuses on creating a culture dedicated to eliminating accidents at work and absence due to work-related ill health. We work rigorously to ensure legal compliance in all areas where we have responsibility. We have systems and processes to control risk and to ensure we meet Vogue’s policy standards on health and safety.
Our commitment to health and safety is reflected in our policy statement and Vogue’s Management System. Specifically we expect all business operations to ensure that:
- health and safety management systems including, where appropriate, specific individual policy statements and workplace procedures safeguard the health and safety of our employees, business partners and the general public
- health and safety risks have been identified, are periodically reviewed and assessed, with prioritised action plans and work instructions in place for risk and impact elimination and reduction
- significant environmental aspects and impacts from current and relevant past activities and services are identified and, where we have direct control or can be expected to have an influence, an environmental management system is implemented with the aim of proactively managing and minimising them
- the sustainable use of resources and materials and the potential harm to the environment is considered in the design and development of business opportunities
incidents are reported, causes identified, actions implemented to prevent the incident happening again and clearly documented
- health surveillance programmes monitor and record employees where the health risk assessment has identified a need and to comply with legal or regulatory requirements