The Health, Safety and Wellbeing of our staff and delivery partners are of paramount importance and is a key foundation for delivering our purpose.
The S&T Cover Integrated Management System is certified to the ISO 45001:2018 Health and Safety standard and we adopt best practice guidelines from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and the Department for Transport (DfT). Our key Health, Safety and Wellbeing policies are listed here:
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Fatigue Risk Policy Statement (POL-05)
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Work Safe Policy Statement (POL-10)
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Driver & Vehicle Policy Statement (POL-11)
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Transport Safety Policy Statement (POL-18)
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Transport Infringements Policy Statement (POL-20)
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Workforce health and wellbeing is guided by our Work Safe Policy Statement (POL-10) and directly managed through our externally audited Health and Wellbeing procedure (SAF-23). Our Health and Wellbeing procedure also mirrors the vison of the Network Rail “everyone fit for the future” occupational health and wellbeing strategy. Our full occupational health and wellbeing approach includes:
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Fatigue Management
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Health surveillance and fit for work assessment.
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Suicide prevention and stress management
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Trauma management
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Mental health
Health, Safety and Wellbeing
Sustainability and Social Value
Our S&T Cover Strategy and Action Plan for social value and sustainability was developed with the Step-By-Step scheme and is titled:
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“Growth and development without boundaries”
"We are fully committed to delivering social value and sustainable development at S&T Cover. This strategy and action plan forms an essential path for the future growth and success of our business as well as the communities in which we work. This strategy and action plan is centred around social issues outside our traditional management boundaries where they are relevant to our activities and services. Our core objectives and operational focus remains delivering safe, efficient, and reliable services.”
Adam Pinfield - Business Director.
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We have provided an extract of our key management objectives and impact areas below and our summary plan is available for download and review. Please click here to download
Our Integrated Management System is also certified to the ISO14001:2015 Environmental Management standard and includes the key policies listed below:
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Social Value Policy
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Sustainability Policy
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Diversity and Inclusion Policy
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Equal Opportunities and Human Rights Policy
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Integrated Management System Policy
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Living Wage Policy
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We also the capability to deliver Environment and Sustainability project deliverables associated with our projects including:
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Environment and Social Appraisal
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Environment and Social Management Plan
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Site Waste Management Plan
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KPI and rail social value tool reporting
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Preliminary Ecological Appraisal
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Flood Risk Assessment
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Contaminated land Preliminary Risk Assessment
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Embodied Carbon calculations
Collaboration and Innovation
We have a strong supporting supply chain which includes trusted SME delivery partners.
Our sister company S&T training www.s-ttraining.co.uk delivers approved and assured training on:
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Track safety
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Signalling courses
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Signal Testing
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Health and Safety
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We have a long-standing partnership with our key resource supplier Construct RS which supplies:
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General Track labour
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Safe Work Leaders
Competence
S&T Cover Signalling and Power expertise requires extensive competence management required for our works on railway infrastructure as required under various Network Rail standards including:
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NR/L2/SIG/30014/B110 SWT, IRSE Licence Requirements
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NR/L2/SIG/30014/B410 SWT, Staff Competency Assessment
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NR/L2/SIG/11201-A2-20 Correlation of Signalling Records
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NR/L2/SIG/30014/A110 Signal Works Testing
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NR/L2/SIG/30014/B510 Appointment of Tester in Charge
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NR/L2/SIG/30014/B510 Appointment of Tester in Charge Form
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NR/L2/SIG/30014/C210 Testing Strategy
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NR/L2/SIG/30014/C120 Signal Works Test Plans
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NR/L2/SIG/30014/E110 Tester Identifiers
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NR/L2/SIG/30014/B210 Appointment of SWT certificates of competency (App B)
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NR/L2/SIG/30014/D120 SWT-Modules
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Key competence management aspects within S&T Cover are outlined here.
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Competence Framework Process Outline
Assessment of Competence
Pre-employment checks necessary competence such as IRSE
Safety Critical
Activities Comeptency
Ensure compliance with specific Network Rail standards
Re-Training and Assessment
When issues, close calls or
incidents occur
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Re-Assessment of Competence
Ensure compliance with specific Network Rail standards
Competent
Assessors
When issues, close calls or
incidents occur
Competence framework process outline
Assessment of competence
All workers and technical staff (new and existing) employed on safety critical works shall be subject to regular checks. A pre-employment check shall be carried out in line with our Human Resource Procedure (QA-07)
Re-assessment of competence
All employees shall have their safety critical competence abilities re-assessed at intervals dependent upon:
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The activities relationship to risk,
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Individual performance that does not meet the required standard,
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Infrequent performance of the activity,
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Changes / Stipulations in safety requirements, procedures or working practices,
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Certification time frames such as SMTH, SWTH and IRSE licences
Safety Critical Activities which require competency management control
Safety critical activities / posts are identified in job descriptions and are in line with Network Rail standards where any work carried out may affect systems of safety or safe inter-working on Network Rail controlled infrastructure.
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Competent Assessors
S&T Cover Ltd have staff that are Qualified & Competent Assessors for all relevant activities. Where shortfalls are identified these shall be sourced via the approved suppliers list.
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Retraining and assessment
Various methods of assessment are used to ensure a high standard of work and competence is maintained such as workplace assessments and site inspections.