Customer site safety
Deliveries of cement to customer sites occur on a frequent
basis. In some instances customers may receive numerous loads on
any given day. Following a series of customer site incidents, some
nearly fatal, the British Cement Association members have
introduced a Customer Site Safety Scheme to ensure that major
hazards are being correctly addressed.
Bagged and bulk delivery
While these documents concentrate on a narrow set of health and
safety criteria specific to bagged and bulk cement delivery, it
should be considered as part of a customer's overall risk
assessment.
Following an initial review of hazards and accidents associated
with the delivery of bulk and bagged products, the cement companies
have identified a number of important safety issues which they
believe is reasonably practicable for all customers to control.
Therefore a new rating scheme is being introduced to rate how
effectively these issues are being addressed by individual customer
sites and improvement plans agreed where necessary.
Customer site safety documents can be downloaded from the
publications section of the BCA
website.