Health and Safety

QHSSE Principles

• We are responsible for our safety, security, and those of others around us.
• We all have the right and responsibility to stop our or another person’s work if it threatens people’s safety or may result in asset or environmental damage.
• We will manage risks to protect people, the environment, the highest quality of our services and processes, assets, and reputation.
• We will ensure that a safe system of work is in place so people can manage QHSSE risks, legal requirements, and obligations.
• We will actively monitor the impact of operations on the environment, especially the most significant ones that can be produced in our activities developed in the marine environment.
• We will ensure the protection of the environment by working respectfully, preventing pollution, minimizing the environmental effects produced by our activities, and improving the Company’s environmental performance from a life-cycle perspective.
• We will promote technologies that contribute to the mitigation of climate change and to the sustainable use of natural resources.
• We will promote effective communications, joint consultation, and cooperation on QHSSE matters to allow employees, stakeholders, and contractor partners to influence our work positively.
• We will provide direction, training, and supervision to employees and contractors to enable them to discharge their duty to work responsibly and with due consideration for compliance with Ocean Winds QHSSE Policy.
• We will investigate all adverse events and record and share the lessons learned.
• We will establish QHSSE objectives and monitor KPIs and incidents to ensure effective action is taken to manage risks and set targets and goals.
• We will implement and promote a quality philosophy throughout the project through the monitoring of KPIs, timely close out of NCRs and detailed collection and close out of punch list items at each of the significant project milestones.
• We will conduct regular and specific auditing to ensure continual improvement and compliance and highlight areas of good practice and concern.
• We will collaborate with industry and other professional associations to continuously advance health, safety, quality, and environmental protection in the offshore wind sector.
• We will promote consultation and participation of workers and, where they exist, workers’ representatives.
• We will apply the principle of mitigation hierarchy (avoid, minimize, restore, and compensate as a last resort) in all activities.
• We will ensure that suppliers and contractors observe the requirements established by Ocean Winds and participate in the safety and quality culture that has been implemented.
• We will establish cooperation links with customers, communities, industry associations, regulatory bodies, government agencies, and other stakeholders to address health, safety, quality, and security issues in a customer-oriented, responsible, consistent, and transparent manner.
• SouthCoast Wind expects our employees, contractors, and partners to embrace these principles, assume responsibility for QHSSE, and reflect on them in every aspect of their work.