GROUP HEALTH AND SAFETY STATEMENT

SEWARD ARC is fully committed to providing a healthy and safe working environment for its employees and anyone else involved in its work activities, and will take all reasonably practical steps to provide and maintain safe systems of work throughout all of its undertakings. We will strive to achieve continuous improvements in health and safety performance so as to contribute to the well-being of our employees and the overall efficiency and profitability of the organisation.

SEWARD ARC considers that health and safety should be an integral component of all management systems and that meaningful communication and co-operation between management and employees is essential for the achievement of the highest standards in health and safety at work.

It is accepted that ultimate responsibility lies with the Board of Directors. However, the company’s disposition is such that the planning, organisation, control and monitoring of health and safety are delegated to the Group Process Manager, Regional Directors and Site Managers, with specialist advice being made available where necessary. The Directors and Managers of each region or site are required to:-

• Establish and maintain a workplace which is, so far as is reasonably practicable, healthy and safe to ensure that employees, visitors and the environment are not exposed to risks arising from business activities.

• Provide employees with adequate supervision, information and training so that they are aware of workplace hazards, know the importance of reporting or eliminating hazards and can fulfil their duties safely without risk to themselves, their colleagues or anyone else affected by work activities.

• Consult with employees on matters affecting their health and safety and encourage them to bring to the attention of management any proposals for the improvement of health and safety standards.

• Ensure adequate records are maintained with regard to: risk assessments, employee training, work equipment inspections and fire procedures, and that these are readily available for inspection by enforcing authority officials.

• Ensure that continual attention is paid to the provision of health and safety information, supervision and training for all employees.

SEWARD ARC firmly believes that a progressive improvement in health and safety standards can only be achieved through a constant development, implementation and review of health and safety policies and procedures. A healthy and safe workplace, however, will only exist if employees accept responsibility for their own health and safety and for the health and safety of other persons who may be affected by their work activities. We should all work as a team to raise awareness of the need for health and safety at work and to ensure that health and safety procedures and policies are followed.

SEWARD ARC Is committed to making sure that the activities of the company are safe for employees and non-employees. The company will do all that is reasonably practicable to ensure a safe and healthy working environment and safe working methods.