Vision Statement

Jeff Hort Engineering is committed to providing the highest level of engineering support and solutions to our customers in a manner that ensures long-term relationships are maintained.

We will grow our business into a respected, nationally recognized engineering services and manufacturing entity.

We will seek out and develop opportunities relevant to our skills base in the international arena.

We will create a workplace culture that sets the benchmark for others to follow.

Business Strategies

The Management team will achieve our shared vision by:

• Providing the highest level of support to our customers by value adding, problem solving, meeting deadlines reliably, with quality results at competitive pricing. 
• Providing decisive leadership in maintaining our integrity and ethics focused on clear delegation, open debate, honesty, respect and recognition of individual rights.
• Maintaining profitable growth, in all divisions of our business.
• The Management Team being proactive, creative and realistic in seeking out and developing new opportunities for products and services. 
• Continue to develop and maintain an ever safer, healthier and environmentally aware workplace.
• Recognising that it is skills, the maturity and the motivation of our people, that gives us the edge over our opposition and having regard to these facts, offer personal growth to all employees, while encouraging individual participation in decision making, individual responsibility and individual accountability.
• Investing business profits by upgrading tooling and equipment, developing new facilities and by strategic acquisition.
• Reviewing and extending a retail product range and developing successful, long-term relationships with our suppliers.
• Maintaining a production oriented AS/NZS ISO 9001:2000 Quality Management Program meeting appropriate quality endorsement criteria.

Quality Assurance

To successfully manage the operational elements of Jeff Hort Engineering, it has been necessary to direct and control it in a systematic manner. Success has resulted from the implementation and maintenance of a management system that is designed to continually improve performance while addressing the needs of interested parties.

The principle part of this management structure is the Quality Management System (QMS). The eight quality management principles have been identified and utilised in the pursuit for recognition in the development of continual improvement and implementation of the QMS. The eight principals are as follows:

1. Customer Focus
2. Leadership
3. Involvement Of People
4. Process Approach
5. System Approach To Management
6. Continual Improvement
7. Factual Approach To Decision Making
8. Mutally Beneficial Supplier Relationships

Jeff Hort Engineering principally has three key objectives; they are customers, employees, growth and profit. Jeff Hort Engineering is committed to satisfying our customer's requirements and exceeding their needs by maintaining out products and services. Jeff Hort Engineering endorses a learning environment by the development, implementation and maintenance of a training regime as an integral part of the workplace culture. This is in recognition that the Company is only as good as the skills and motivation of the people within.

OHS Systems

Jeff Hort Engineering is committed to the continuous improvement of our OHS systems and procedures.

Our injury rates are comparatively low for our industry and the operations we undertake. Our supervisors and employees are often commended on their skill level and dedication to safety when conducting on-site works. We have always prided ourselves on our strong work ethic, commitment to achieving low incident rates, and our commitment to implementing effective return to work programs.

Our Occupational Health and Safety System

The Directors and Management of Jeff Hort Engineering Pty Ltd accept prime responsibility for Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) in the workplace in compliance with the relevant Acts, Regulations and Codes of Practice, and is fully committed to the ongoing improvement of the Company’s health and safety performance.

Our commitment to the continuous improvement of the OHS system and procedures has gained many industry accolades; our employees are often commended on their skill level and dedication to safety in both on and off-site work locations. Jeff Hort Engineering is proud of our strong work ethic, and commitment to achieving low incident rates, and our commitment to implementing an effective return to work program

 

                                   

Our OHS Policy

It is a requirement of all employees, contractors and sub-contractors working for Jeff Hort Engineering Pty Ltd and to have as their principal responsibility a commitment to the compliance and maintenance of the highest standards in relations to health, safety and welfare in the workplace.

 

Jeff Hort Engineering Pty Ltd is therefore committed to:

 

• Undertake risk management reviews and implementing action plans to adequately manage risks to persons in the work environment;
• Compliance with all relevent legislation and standards;
• Ensuring that plant and equipment are safe and without risk to health when properly used;
• Ensuring that appropriate standards are met when storing and handling dangerous goods and hazardous substances;
• Ensuring that Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) are available and accesible to employees using these products;
• Providing, monitoring and maintaining safe systems for use, handling, storage and transportation of plant, equipment and substances;
• Maintaining safe systems of work, at work premises and the work environment in which we operate;
• Providing appropriate OHS training to all employees;
• Consultation with employees, contractors and sub-contractors to enhance effectiveness of the OHS management system;
  Providing the necessary resources, including finances, to facilitate the fulfillment of OHS responsibilities;