Türk Loydu Health, Safety, Environment and Quality Policy
As a leading classification society and conformity assessment body, Türk Loydu is committed to upholding the highest standards of health, safety, environmental protection, and quality (HSEQ).
With a vision to become a global company and recognized brand, we actively engage in industry collaborations and working groups to enhance maritime safety, protect life and property, and promote environmental sustainability worldwide.
Türk Loydu Top Management is ultimately responsible for the establishment, implementation, and ensuring the effectiveness of this policy. Top Management commits to ensuring that HSEQ performance is regularly monitored, reviewed, and continually improved, and in this context, to demonstrating the necessary leadership and assuming corporate responsibility.
1. Leadership and Commitment
a. Top Management integrates HSEQ principles into strategic and operational decisions, ensuring alignment with global best practices.
b. Provides the necessary resources, training, support and appropriate working environment conditions to uphold the highest safety, environmental protection, and quality standards.
c. Fosters a culture of accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement at all levels of the organization; maintains employees’ occupational health and safety and environmental protection awareness at a consistently high level.
d. Acts in cooperation with relevant international organizations and working groups to contribute to the development of global industrial standards.
2. Independence, Integrity, and Compliance
a. Maintains independence, impartiality, confidentiality, and reliability in all our services.
b. Adheres to the Türk Loydu Code of Ethics, ensuring transparency, ethical conduct, and integrity.
c. Complies with international legislation, relevant standards, accreditation requirements, and customer requirements, as well as the needs and expectations of relevant interested parties.
3. Safety of Life, Property, and the Environment
a. Promotes a safety-first culture, empowering personnel to stop or refuse work that endangers their health and safety.
b. Requires customers to provide adequate resources to allow work to be undertaken safely,
c. Develops and implements effective safety measures to protect human life, assets, and the environment and prevent injury and ill health.
d. Actively contributes to global maritime safety and environmental protection efforts, supporting industry’s best practices and regulatory advancements.
e. Develops and implements plans for response and recovery for emergencies and crises that may result in environmental pollution, personal injury, property damage, or other business interruptions.
4. Employee Engagement and Competency
a. Motivates and empowers employees in alignment with Türk Loydu’s strategic objectives and global vision.
b. Maintains an effective training and qualification system to ensure a high level of technical expertise.
c. Encourages open communication and participation of employees and employee representatives in HSEQ decision-making processes.
d. Protects employees from retaliation when reporting hazards, risks, or unethical practices.
e. Ensures that all personnel are aware of this policy, receive appropriate training, and can provide feedback to improve HSEQ performance.
5. Risk Management and Continuous Improvement
a. Systematically identifies, manages, and evaluates risks and opportunities across all activities, including the organizational context and service delivery processes.
b. Ensures that the necessary resources are allocated to enable effective management of identified risks.
c. Supports the Occupational Health and Safety Board in implementing proactive safety measures.
d. Continually improves HSEQ performance through measurable indicators, objectives, and periodic reviews.
e. Ensures that any deviations from regulatory requirements, management system requirements, or corporate policies, as well as any incidents, are investigated immediately and thoroughly; those root causes are identified; and that corrective actions are established.
6. Sustainability
a. Türk Loydu supports long-term corporate sustainability by considering the environmental, social, and governance impacts of its activities.
b. Regularly assesses the environmental impacts of its activities; commits to reducing these environmental impacts, ensuring the sustainable use of resources, preventing emissions and pollution, and contributing to global efforts to combat climate change.
c. Recognizes human resources, knowledge, and corporate reputation as fundamental elements of corporate sustainability in terms of the continuity and reliability of services.
d. Safeguards the reliability and continuity of services, as well as stakeholder trust, through independence, impartiality, transparency, a risk-based approach, and effective governance practices.
e. Supports the prevention of waste generation; the reduction, recycling, repair, reuse, and responsible disposal of waste through appropriate methods.
7. Customer Satisfaction
a. Obtains new authorizations and international recognitions and maintains them in order to meet customers’ expectations in line with international market requirements.
b. Ensures customer satisfaction by offering on-time and equally accessible service to all customers according to their expectations.
As Türk Loydu grows into a global company and a recognized international brand, we remain dedicated to ensuring safety, environmental responsibility, and quality excellence.
Through strong leadership, industry collaboration, and continuous innovation, we aim to shape a safer, more sustainable future for the global maritime and industrial sectors.