Health & Safety

Health & Safety

Improving our Outside Housekeeping

The second phase of our Slips, Trips & Falls campaign focusses on improving our outside housekeeping.

Throughout this month we will be sharing a series of posters for displaying in your workplaces.

In this month’s campaign we encourage teams to:

  • Complete “hazard spotting” activities on each site associated with outside housekeeping to identify any issues & create a NMHA for each
  • Walk the regular routes – what hazards do you spot?
  • Check well-identified paths and passages
  • Make preparations for adverse weather later in the year, providing necessary equipment and grit salt for snow and ice
  • Produce before and after posters to highlight improvements, using the attached template
  • Identify areas where there is regular spillage or poor housekeeping, consider how it can be revented at source
  • Ask team members to check their safety boots are in good condition, with good grip, and can be laced to the top to provide ankle protection
  • Going further with 5S methodology
  • Remind teams that housekeeping issues are not minor, and should be reported as a NMHA if applicable
  • Ensure site inspection schemes include formal housekeeping checks (exterior and interior) at least quarterly

Managers can find full details of this Outside Housekeeping – Slips Trips & Falls campaign  CEMEX_Slips Trips and Falls_PPT_Sept22 (928 downloads) , along with the before & after template Slips Trips and Falls Poster Outdoor Housekeeping Before and After Template (908 downloads) , in the download section of the UK News website:

You can also find the first in our series of posters in the download section of the UK News website: Slips Trips and Falls Poster Outdoor Housekeeping 1 (913 downloads)

Please print and display on notice boards in your working areas.