SCC (Safety Checklist Contractors)

Novenco Netherlands was awarded the Dutch Checklist for Contractors (SCC) certificate in March 2000.

SCC certificate
A multitude of diverse sub-contractors are working in industrial sectors of critical safety. The SCC certificate verifies that companies and their employees implemented a safety management system. The petrochemical industry was one of the first industrial sectors requiring a certificate from its sub-contractors as proof of an effective SHE management system (Safety, Health and Environmental protection). Today the SCC System has expanded to become an internationally recognized safety management system for manufacturers and services in all sectors of industry.

The award of this certificate shows Novenco is in compliance with the requirements on areas such as risk inventories, staff selection, information and instructions, and toolbox meetings.

Safety, health, and the environment are integral elements of our overall company strategy. Our policy is based on a plan of approach following a risk inventory. A revised safety, health and environmental statement is issued once every three years. In addition, there is an annual assessment of the progress in the plan of approach.

This policy is based on two core principles: Novenco attaches paramount importance to safety; Novenco strives for continual improvement in both the policy and its implementation. The safety, health and environmental policy implementation procedures are an integral part of the quality system.

A team of supervisors are responsible for implementing the safety, health and wellbeing policy. Their duties cover promoting the safety, health and wellbeing of their permanent staff, as well as any temporary staff and other persons in the vicinity.

All employees are obliged to actively endeavour to ensure their own health and safety. In addition to compliance with safety instructions, they are also required to proactively seek ways to carry out their work in an even safer manner, and to a higher standard.

With regard to the company's safety, health and wellbeing policy, the Working Conditions Act (ARBO) assigns a pivotal role to collaboration and consultation between the employer and the employees. Partly on the basis of advice from the Health and Safety Inspectorate and other agencies, the Board of Management is required to provide its employees with all necessary safety equipment, instructions and other relevant information.