We implement health and safety through the following guiding principles:

Management at all levels of the organisation will be actively committed to the achievement of health, safety, and environmental excellence.  Every manager shall demonstrate commitment to this goal and shall strive to provide adequate resources to achieve this goal and follow these principles.  Through communication with our employees, it is our goal to ensure that Albany is commitment to health, safety, and environmental excellence is reflected in day to day operations.

We will maintain and enhance a companywide organisational structure and culture that recognises and encourages the full and active participation of all employees in the systematic management of health, safety, and environmental issues. We will also enhance a culture that allows for the transfer of information and best practices across all levels of the company.

Achievement of health, safety, and environmental excellence depends heavily on the continuing participation and accountability of management.  Responsibility for health and safety and the protection of the environment is a matter of corporate policy and is a matter of law, with potentially severe consequences for failure to comply.  Management at all levels are responsible for ensuring that operations are conducted in accordance with this policy and that appropriate health, safety and environmental programs, procedures and systems of work have been developed and implemented for each facility and operation under their supervision.

We will develop, implement and continuously improve effective health, safety, and environmental management systems and standards that reflect best industry practices.

We will ensure that potential health, safety, and environmental risks associated with all our activities are assessed as early as is practicable in order to minimize and manage adverse effects and to identify opportunities for improvement.  Albany strive to eliminate/ manage any foreseeable hazards that may endanger health, safety or the environment. Albany have internal control to works programs that enforce risk mitigation through pre works assessments and form an integral component to calculating the risk of any task being undertaken.

We will operate to standards that will comply with the requirements of appropriate national and international legislation and codes of practice and will strive beyond compliance and recognise these principles as a valued way of life.  Where no regulatory controls exist, we shall adopt and impose our own health, safety, and environmental standards in accordance with relevant industry standards of practice.

Training is an essential element of HSE excellence.  Health, safety, and environmental managers and staff will be qualified by reason of education or experience to discharge their responsibilities and will participate in a program of continuing professional development.  In addition, we are committed to provide training and development on health, safety, and environmental matters that are appropriate to each employee’s job duties and responsibilities.  The management of each of the operating groups shall take steps to assure that appropriate training is conducted on a regular basis.

We believe that effective HSE management is good business.  As in other areas of our business, we are committed to continuous improvement of HSE management practices.  We believe that adherence to these principles will assist us in achieving our objectives of HSE excellence.  Each year we will identify specific goals against which we will measure our progress toward HSE excellence.

Effective management requires on-going assessment and review to determine whether the health, safety, and environmental policy is being appropriately implemented.  Accordingly, an on-going assessment, self-evaluation and audit program shall be implemented and maintained for operations throughout Albany.  The objective of this program is to provide management and the Board of Directors with verification that operations are in compliance with laws, regulations, company policies and standards and to facilitate the spread of best practices throughout Albany operations.