Sterling is committed to protecting the health and safety of every individual that is involved with Sterling’s activities which includes employees, consultants, contractors and the people that come in to contact with Sterling’s operations and to ensure optimum protection to the environments in which Sterling operates. Sterling shall achieve these objectives through unrelenting commitment and dedication, process of continuous improvement, adopting the guidelines from international codes and standards where it is practical and implementing appropriate management systems.

To ensure that our operations are in accordance with Sterling’s requirements of Health, Safety and Environment, we will:

• ensure that our operations comply with applicable health, safety and environment laws and regulations;
• develop and implement a safety management system to protect all the personnel involved in our activities and the environments in which we operate;
• provide health, safety and environment training to all our employees and consultants and actively promote HSE awareness;
• develop an awareness and culture where all the near misses, incidents and accidents are reported and investigated and the learning points are shared throughout the organisation for continuous improvement;
• ensure that all our contractors are aware of our policy and standards on HSE and to ensure contractors compliance;
• develop a system of regular audits and inspections to ensure compliance our policies and standards;
• to set objectives and targets and make HSE as a function for each employee and consultant and monitor the performance as part of the appraisal system;
• develop a system on emergency response and prepardness and provide high priority for regular testing and training so that any emergency is handled in a safe, timely and disciplined manner;
• to review and advise or recommend Government and regulatory bodies in the formulation or improvement of HSE laws, policies and regulations;

HSE Management System