MvO Safe

Martens en Van Oord works according to the core values: being proficient, ground-breaking and committed. The strength of Martens en Van Oord is in its people; they do what they’re good at. We work together on projects deploying each other’s talents. The major commitment of ‘The People who Make it’ is reflected in contributing ideas and looking further than others. The core values are intertwined throughout the organisation. Our aim is to prepare and execute our projects in a proficient manner. We focus on safety and quality; we guarantee knowledge, craftsmanship and professionalism. 

We believe it is important that we can prove we work safely, minimising and controlling any safety risks. We view safety as a shared responsibility of the contractor and the client, whereby we aim for an integrated approach to safety. The safety culture of an organisation runs in parallel to an integrated approach to safety, one isn’t possible without the other.

Our principles:

• Our aim is to be a good employer; we provide our employees, subcontractor employees, hired personnel and third parties with a healthy and safe working environment. In addition to the necessary statutory obligations, we follow our MvO standard.
• We carry out our activities in such a way that we aim to prevent accidents, near-misses, incidents and damage to equipment and resources, and minimise health and safety risks.
• Our goal is to improve our safety figures every year, resulting in a reduced injury frequency index (IF rate) and prevention of occupational diseases.
• We are aware of the causes and consequences of incidents and accidents, and we learn from them.
• We make sure that the safety awareness of our people is continuously fed with correct and suitable information during kick-offs, toolbox meetings, SHE meetings, CERT and first-aid training.
• We regularly conduct preventive inspection rounds and safety walks in order to implement preventive measures on time.
• We use a strong and comprehensive PPE policy, ensuring that our people are always adequately protected against daily health and safety risks.
• We have a solid emergency plan and are responsible for drills and compliance.

Our objectives:

• Our ambition: 0 accidents involving injury or absence from work.

We want all our people to get to work safely, be safe when they are at work and get home again safely! Injury or absence from work that is caused by the work is unacceptable!

• Our aim is to report incidents within 24 hours.

Incidents should be announced as quickly as possible, allowing all of us to work together on the investigation into the cause of the incident and make improvements to prevent similar incidents in the future.

• Our IF is less than 3

We believe it is important to keep our IF rate as low as possible. We do not want to have any incidents resulting in injury or absence from work.

• We use the Tripod method to investigate all possible high-potential incidents/near-misses, which gives us greater insight into the causes and basic risk factors that could lead to a very serious situation (reputation, environment, safety, material damage).

Our Safety Policy:

In order to achieve the safety objectives, Martens en Van Oord has a strong vision and powerful safety policy that is actively implemented by the Board and management.

Additionally, Martens en Van Oord has formulated powerful Life Saving Rules, which were suggested by our own people and are jointly followed.

To do this in the best way possible, Martens en Van Oord follows its own ‘Move On Safe’ (MvO Safe) safety programme, in which the core values of being proficient, ground-breaking and committed have a central role.

Proficient: We work safely or we do not work at all.

Ground-breaking: We also consider the safety of our environment.

Committed: We work on safety together.

Our 10-step plan ensures that we keep focusing on our core values and continuously improve the safety awareness of all our people.