Health, Safety & Environment
HSE is not a department at GarnetShores; it is the way work gets authorised, executed and closed out. This page sets out how.
01 — Policy statement
GarnetShores W.L.L. provides specialist maintenance services with a single, non-negotiable commitment: no scope of work takes precedence over the safety of the people performing it, or over the environment in which they work.
We comply with applicable health, safety and environmental legislation and with our clients' site rules. All rope access work is performed operating in accordance with the IRATA International Code of Practice. Hazards are identified and controlled through task risk assessment; energy sources are isolated and locked off before work begins; and every person on a GarnetShores site holds the authority — and the obligation — to stop any job that is not being done safely.
Ravi ChandranHSE Manager, GarnetShores
02 — Permit to work and task risk assessment
How a job is authorised
Every campaign, large or small, runs through the same sequence. The steps below describe our internal workflow; where a client operates its own permit system, our workflow nests inside it rather than replacing it.
- Scope agreed and the worksite identified with the client maintenance team, including access routes and simultaneous operations nearby.
- Permit to work raised under the client permit system — cold work, hot work or working at height as the scope demands — and accepted by the area authority.
- Task risk assessment prepared with the crew who will do the work: hazards named, controls assigned, and the residual risk confirmed acceptable to every party before mobilisation.
- Energy isolation verified: electrical, mechanical, hydraulic and stored energy locked off and tagged in line with our lockout–tagout procedure.
- Toolbox talk delivered to the full crew — the assessment walked through, the rescue plan briefed, and drop-object controls confirmed for anything working above head height.
- Work executed under supervision; permits re-validated at the start of every shift; any change to conditions or scope triggers a fresh assessment.
- On completion the site is restored, permits closed, and a close-out report issued recording man-hours, findings and any HSE events — however minor.
03 — Lockout–tagout
No work on live energy
Maintenance work on systems holding energy — electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic or stored — begins only after isolation is verified. We work to a lockout–tagout discipline consistent with our clients' isolation standards:
- Isolation points identified on the task risk assessment and agreed with the area authority
- Personal locks applied by every member of the crew working on the system, with group lock boxes used for multi-trade jobs
- Zero-energy verification attempted and witnessed before any line is broken or cover removed
- Tags carrying the name and contact of the person who applied them; locks removed only by the person who set them
04 — Drop-object prevention
What goes up must be tethered
Dropped objects remain one of the most serious hazards associated with work at height. Our controls are deliberately simple and enforced daily:
- Tools used at height are tethered with rated lanyards and inspected before first use each shift
- Exclusion zones established and barriered beneath every overhead worksite
- Loose items on working levels — including personal effects — controlled or removed before ropes are rigged
- Tool registers checked at the worksite at the start and end of every shift, so nothing is left behind
- Any dropped or near-miss object event reported the same day and reviewed with the crew, not filed
05 — Rope access method
Working to the IRATA code of practice
All rope access work performed by GarnetShores is delivered operating in accordance with the IRATA International Code of Practice. In practical terms that means:
- Technicians trained and assessed through IRATA-accredited training companies, and currently certified at the grade they work
- Every rope access team supervised on site by a Level III technician
- A rescue and retrieval plan specific to each worksite, rigged and briefed before the first entry
- Equipment on a documented inspection cycle, with unique identification and recorded pre-use checks
- Worksite documentation — risk assessments, method statements and logs — retained and available for client audit
We do not hold, and do not claim, any certification or membership numbers on this page. Where a tender requires formal evidence of arrangements, our HSE documentation pack is provided under confidentiality through the contact page.
06 — QHSE commitments
What we commit to, in writing
- Prevent injury and ill health to our employees, subcontractors and the people working alongside us.
- Comply with applicable health, safety and environmental legislation and with our clients' site rules at all times.
- Operate a permit-to-work and task risk assessment process on every scope, regardless of size or familiarity.
- Give every employee and subcontractor the authority and the obligation to stop any job that cannot be done safely.
- Assure competence: no technician mobilises beyond the grade they hold, and training records are current before deployment.
- Maintain equipment integrity through documented pre-use and periodic inspection, with defective items quarantined immediately.
- Prevent pollution and manage waste responsibly: segregation at source, licensed disposal, and spill kits staged wherever fluids are handled.
- Improve continually through leading indicators, audits, and honest investigation of events and near misses.
Concerns about any GarnetShores operation can be raised directly and in confidence with our HSE Manager at[email protected].
