QHSE

In accordance with the company’s guidelines for ensuring that the organisation is effective and efficient, and capable of guaranteeing the quality of the services provided and that they interact with the surrounding environment, in a perspective of continuing improvement, the Management of the GESMAR Group intends to promote a policy of protecting the Environment, and the Health and Safety of company personnel and workers operating on its behalf.
The management accordingly undertakes to comply with all the applicable environmental and safety legislation, to continuously update and disseminate the principles of the policy, to monitor the objectives and control the performance of the system, and to make available all the human, material, instrumental and financial resources necessary for attaining the established objectives, and to define the roles and responsibilities for facilitating implementation of the system.
With regard to the ethical and moral principles which the Company is based upon, the Management is firmly committed to opposing the use of drugs and alcohol by members of staff. Accordingly the usage and possession thereof, as stipulated by the relevant laws in force, are absolutely prohibited and may result in instant dismissal.
Our main objectives are:

Client

• Total Customer Satisfaction
• Technical sales responses in a short period of time

Suppliers

• Suppliers with a consolidated history
• Awareness-raising amongst suppliers of environmental and safety issues
• Involvement with reaching the objectives declared in this document

Services

• Providing services whilst respecting the applicable regulations and code of navigation
• Quality of service in line with client requirements
• Flexibility
• Maintaining the efficiency of the fleet of tugboats to the highest levels

Collaborators

• Spirit of cooperation
• Respect for the ethical and social principles of the individual
• Involvement of all persons
• Providing up-to-date IT equipment and systems
• Utmost responsibility

Environment

• Prevention of all forms of pollution (management of waste, bunker with low sulphur content)
• Use of substances that respect the environment as much as possible (TBT-free paints)
• Raising awareness of personnel with regard to environmental issues
• Constant updates of legislation

Safety

• Management of occupational health and safety integrated into the general management of the business.
• Compliance with the occupational health and safety regulations in force, and systematic updating of the list of applicable laws, and of any other voluntary regulations to which the organisation adheres.
• Prevention of all forms of injury or occupational illness among employees and any other workers operating on behalf of the company.
• Identification and control of hazards and risks.
• Fostering a culture of prevention, also through communication, involvement, consultation and information of personnel concerning the prevention and control of risks.
• Continually improving the management and performance with respect to prevention, by building responsibility across all levels of the organisation, through assignment of specific duties and responsibilities.

Ethics              

• Continual respect of the ethical principles and of the legislation in force applicable to employees’ activities
• Involvement of interested parties in the development of the company
• Commitment to meet the requirements of SA8000 and to disclose them to interested parties
• Compliance with the national and international laws applicable to the industry, with the voluntary agreements to which the company subscribes, and with the international conventions and their interpretations as listed in Section II of the SA8000 standard (ILO conventions)
• External disclosure of the performance of the Management System
• Continual application and verification of the company ethics code

Management must check that these objectives are being reached at periodic intervals, and ensure that the above is respected.

The Management