ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
objectives
Exmouth Diving Centre believes excellence in environmental performance is essential to our business success worldwide and compatible with balancing the
economic, social and environmental needs of sustainable development.
We aspire to be the company of choice because of our environmental performance. We seek to reduce our environmental footprint in line with our
production while delivering value to our shareholders. Setting compliance with our legal obligations as the minimum standard for our performance,
we conduct all our activities with the aim of minimizing adverse effects on the environment.
strategy
Exmouth Diving Centre achieves these objectives by:
Complying with all relevant laws and regulations and our standards and applying responsible standards where laws do not exist
Minimizing pollution and the cumulative environmental impact of our activities at a local, regional and global level
Seeking to reduce waste and improve resource use efficiency in our design and operating practices
Supporting research to improve our understanding of the environment and thereby using sound science as the basis for all our environmental
decisions
Monitoring the effects of our activities and changing our practices to minimize our footprint
Setting internal targets which drive us to continually improve our environmental performance
Reporting our environmental performance openly and transparently
Learning from our performance to continuously improve our processes, work practices and behaviors and sharing our lessons learned with
others
Striving to meet community expectations by listening to and addressing concerns
Being aware of and accountable for our individual contribution to environmental performance, and encouraging every employee day by day to
respect our environment
application
This policy will be reviewed every three years.
Responsibility for the application of this policy rests with all Exmouth Diving Centre employees, contractors and joint venturers engaged in activities under
Exmouth Diving Centre operational control. Exmouth Diving Centre managers are also responsible for promotion of this policy in nonoperated joint ventures.
DAVID HALL
HEALTH AND SAFETY POLICY
objectives
We at Exmouth Diving Centre believe that all major incidents, occupational injuries and illnesses are preventable and are fully committed to achieving our health and safety aspiration of no one gets hurt, no incidents.
We also believe that attaining a world class performance in health and safety is critical to the success and sustainability of our business.
Our goal is to be recognized as an industry leader in the way we deliver health and safety performance.
strategy
Exmouth Diving Centre achieves these objectives by:
Giving health and safety prevailing status over all our activities and being willing to stop or delay any work where effective risk management controls are not in place
Being constantly aware of our major accident and health risks and ensuring the right designs, plans, actions and competent people are in place to control them
Ensuring the ongoing physical integrity of our facilities and the currency and relevance of our operating procedures
Complying with all relevant laws, regulations and standards such as our Golden Safety Rules, and applying responsible standards where laws do not exist
Learning from our performance to continuously improve our processes, work practices and behaviors and sharing our lessons learned with others
Setting internal targets which drive us to continually improve our health and safety performance
Reporting our health and safety performance openly and transparently
Engaging contractors and suppliers who share our values and work with them to consistently meet our health and safety expectations
Working with our joint ventures, suppliers, competitors and regulators to raise the standards of health and safety in our industry
Creating and sustaining a culture that empowers and rewards our workforce to act in accordance with this policy
application
This policy will be reviewed
every three years.
This policy applies to all personnel, contractors and joint venturers engaged in activities under Exmouth Diving Centres operational control. Responsible
Exmouth Diving Centre managers will use their influence to promote this Policy in non-operated ventures.
David Hall
Director
August 15, 2009