Q8 believes that excellent security, safety, health and environmental (SSHE) performance is an integral part of our business and will work to achieve and sustain a consistently superior level of performance, aspire to achieve world-class standards, and actively implement initiatives that help secure a sustainable future.

We are committed to creating a culture in which employees feel responsibility towards the environment and society. To achieve this Q8 will:

• meet the aims of the Security, Safety, Health and Environmental Management System (SSHEMS), which is designed as a fully documented approach to managing SSHE as a critical business activity;
• assign SSHE responsibility and accountability at all levels in the organisation, with Managers and Supervisors leading by example;
• provide our employees with the skills required to support SSHEMS and consistently use safe working practices to prevent incidents and improve SSHE performance;
• develop a motivated and committed workforce and enhance the overall SSHE culture by involving employees at all levels in SSHEMS initiatives;
• promote pollution prevention, energy efficiency and habitat conservation initiatives and support the development of environmentally friendly products;
• set objectives and targets to ensure continuous improvement and measure our SSHE performance against the targets;
• require our business partners to apply SSHE standards that are compatible with our own;
• comply with the regulations, laws and requirements of the countries in which we operate and adopt our own standards where such laws do not exist;
• proactively identify hazards from our operations and products and put in place measures to control the associated risks.