Newhaven Port Authority

Newhaven Port & Properties Ltd is fully committed to meeting its responsibilities under the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974, the Management of Health & Safety at Work Regulations 1999, and associated protective legislation, both as an Employer and as a Company. To achieve those objectives it has appointed designated members of staff to be responsible for health & safety issues; to keep workplace health & safety and welfare procedures under constant review; to liaise with the Health & Safety Executive wherever necessary; and to keep Newhaven Port & Properties Ltd and its directors abreast of new legislation, EU Directives, Regulations and British Standards, in order to ensure on-going compliance with the law.

Our Policy is to ensure the Health and Safety of our personnel, of all users of the port and operations that are entrusted to us in the full respect of safety and the prevention of pollution.

Under the guidance of the Chairman/CEO and the Managing Director/Duty Holder of Newhaven Port & Properties, the Board undertakes to support with all its authority the actions which carry out our objectives and take the oath to respect the provisions described in our documents, instructions and others memoranda. Our Directors and Employees will strive to achieve continual improvement of managing health & safety throughout the Company at all levels.

We  aim  to  ensure  that  all  the  personnel  work  together  as  a  competent  team  for  safety, protection of environment, in compliance with the rules. To reach the highest standard and the highest quality is our main goal.

We set up a Safety Management System, and a structure that the main objective is to put into operation the above-defined policy. We fully endorse the Health & Safety, Environmental and Marine Policies contained within the System.

The Company firmly supports the application of the Port Marine Safety Code and, as Chairman/CEO and Managing Director/Duty Holder, it is our duty to ensure, through the Company Management System, that the objectives of the code and all matters relating to Health & Safety, Environmental protection and Marine Operational Safety are carried out.

For the Board

Patrick Jeanne                                             Jean-Pierre Lucas
Chairman/CEO                                            Managing Director/Duty Holder
Newhaven Port & Properties Ltd.             Newhaven Port & Properties Ltd.
February 2010                                              February 2010