At SEW Safety is of paramount importance to us, a value that is fundamental to our culture. SEW has pursued zero incident programs on it's nationwide projects to heighten the sense of safety consciousness in every job we do. We strictly enforce the use of all safety equipment available to every worker on our sites. We have an extensive deployment of impact, electrical and fire protection systems available to ALL workers on EVERY project.

We believe that every accident, every injury, no matter how small, is preventable, and we embed that philosophy into every SEW project through a combination of technical field procedures and ongoing training programs.

Our dedication to safety helps keep workers safe, and it also pays off for our stakeholders. Our operating costs go down and productivity goes up because less time is lost to accidents and results in savings on insurance premiums.

The OHSAS 18001 standard for Occupational Health and Safety is used as a guideline to develop our health and safety management systems.

SEW implemented a variety of programs and processes, to address the issues around ergonomics, machine guarding and the use of personal protective equipment to achieve greater protection and to prevent occupational injury and illness of employees, contractors and visitors. All employees are committed to identifying and reporting safety concerns and are involved in implementing solutions for any potential hazard.

We have developed formal safety management systems which are being implemented across all projects. A task group to look at independent auditing performs periodic safety inspections to ensure the internal standards on workplace safety are being followed.

Safety audit is a key element of safety management. We subject our safety management systems to extensive internal audit scrutiny to ensure adherence to our best practices and standards. All projects maintain programmes for internal audit and inspection, to monitor implementation of operational controls.

The Project Safety Task Force, chaired by the Managing Director is established to develop a company policy, review performance, launch new initiatives, and ensure good practices are shared across all projects nationwide.

SEW has a setup a nationwide helpline in place for reporting of accidents and incidents of all types (safety, health, environment, quality, security, complaints etc). This also helps perform a common underlying case analysis and a powerful facility to track actions from investigations, audit and risk assessment.

We also ask our subcontractors and partners to adopt our commitment to safety and health for exceptional safety performance, even in hazardous work environments, severe weather, and remote locations.

SEW provides a blanket insurance cover to all its employees employed on project sites to cover the risk of personal accidents and emergency medical attention etc.

SEW strives to be a leader in employee safety. We have extensively deployed safety equipment and programs available ALL our workers on project sites. These include:

• Light weight hard hats, eye and face protection, and improved tools and equipment.
• Full-body harness to fall protection of employees working at heights.
• Injury prevention program of stretching exercises and training in lifting techniques.
• A worker-based safety program that puts the responsibility for changing and eliminating
• unsafe practices in their hands with support from project management.
• An program to protect workers who work in underground tunneling areas.