Product Safety Policy – Rolls-Royce

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Principles

The safety of our people and products and supporting each other to speak up is our number one priority – we Put Safety First.
Everything we deliver to a customer is our product - hardware, software, services and documentation, whether delivered separately or integrated into systems.
Five principles govern our approach to product safety:

Leadership commitment and accountability (see leadership expectation below)
Deliver the required level of product safety
Maintaining and improving product safety
Conforming product
Safety awareness and competence

The product safety principles are the foundation of our Product Safety Management System which is governed by the Company Product Safety Assurance Board.

We

deliver the required level of product safety by:
- designing, making, maintaining and operating our products to achieve a high level of safety consistent with their application, always meeting or exceeding relevant company, legal, regulatory and industry requirements;
- assessing what could go wrong and putting controls in place to meet or exceed the required safety levels throughout the product lifecycle, and to manage the safety risks to a level that is as low as is reasonably practicable; and
- proactively evaluating how human and organisational factors can introduce risks to product safety and using our understanding when setting our controls;
maintain and improve product safety by:
- jointly taking responsibility for product safety and being mindful of the safety implications of our actions;
- remaining vigilant and always speaking up about product safety concerns in the knowledge that our company is committed to treating everyone fairly and without prejudice; and
- measuring our performance and rigorously investigating and resolving safety related issues, systematically embedding the learning from these back into our practices and processes;
- actively engaging in setting industry standards and good practice and implementing appropriate external good practice.
- proactively updating and improving our mandatory processes and standards so that they remain fit for purpose as our products change and our technical understanding grows.
deliver conforming product by:
- ensuring we have access to, understand and follow our mandatory processes and standards;
- requiring our supply chain to work to appropriate processes and standards and assuring that they do so;
establish and maintain safety awareness and competence by:
- developing competence standards for tasks and training and gaining experience so we can ensure we meet the standards or are supported by those who do when we carry out a task;
- proactively updating and improving our training, opportunities for experience and competence standards so that they remain fit for purpose as our products change and our understanding grows;
- speaking to our leader in the first instance if we are being asked to do something which we do not feel qualified or experienced enough to do;
- maintaining our awareness of our own individual fitness to operate, not undertaking any safety related task when impaired e.g. when tired or distracted;
- developing and attending safety training suitable for our roles; and
- actively promoting and talking about product safety.
read the introduction to our Code and Group Policies to understand to whom they apply and the consequences for breaching them.

Leaders

In addition to the general expectations of leaders set out in the introduction to our Code and Group Policies, leaders:

champion the safety first behaviour so that safety-related tasks get the right attention, time and resource;
make accountability for product safety clear and ensure people understand what they are accountable for; and
ensure our people are competent in the roles they perform and that they understand the Rolls-Royce Product Safety Policy and Rolls-Royce mandatory processes and standards and can fulfil their collective and personal responsibility.