Safety Policy
Bennelongia is committed to the use of safe work procedures at all times to ensure the safety and well-being of all staff, fellow contractors and the public.
Bennelongia will : –
- Positively foster an awareness of safety issues and provide staff training to facilitate and maintain a safe workplace and working environment
- Develop safe work procedures that take account of, and avoid or remove, hazards and risks
- Regularly review and update safety procedures and work practices
- Regularly analyse the way work is being undertaken in relation to established procedures and hazards
- Keep safety statistics and investigate causes, and ways of avoiding, any safety incidents
- During fieldwork, staff will ensure their whereabouts is known at all times and, in remote locations, have a means of communicating their whereabouts (satellite phone and, if necessary, radio)
- Ensure vehicles are adequately equipped for the area in which they are working and adequate water is carried
- Drive according to conditions in a safe manner
Bennelongia Expertise
Bennelongia staff have many years of policy and research experience in subterranean fauna, wetland ecology and invertebrate conservation gained while employed in the Department of Parks and Wildlife prior to setting up Bennelongia in 2007. Since then, they have undertaken more than 250 environmental impact assessments of subterranean fauna, short range endemic inverterbrates (SREs), waterbirds, shorebirds and wetlands and aim to continue undertaking high quality studies and assessments of fauna and wetlands.
Staff continue to publish widely in the scientific literature, describing new species, providing new methods of sampling fauna, and documenting the ecology of fauna to improve the context for impact assessments.