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“Ensuring we All get home safely”

Industrial Scale is committed to the health and safety of all employees, contractors, clients, and the public. The ultimate goal of our health and safety policy is to have an accident-free environment and protection from accidental loss. All employees of Industrial Scale are responsible for ensuring that the safety program is continually updated and maintained. Employees at every level are responsible and accountable for our overall safety initiatives. We take responsibility in upholding this commitment by:

• Complying with applicable safety law, government regulations, industry standards, and our own policies. Exercise sound judgment and common sense when undertaking any work-related tasks.
• Making safety considerations an integral part of our planning process
• Remaining sensitive to the concerns of the public.
• Identifying and mitigating the adverse impacts of our operations on the environment in keeping with good environmental and business practices. Responding to safety emergencies in a prompt and efficient manner.
• Committing sufficient resources to ensure that its employees are fully informed of their responsibilities and are trained in safety while performing their duties.
• Taking an active approach to understanding any potential health, safety or environmental issues that may pertain to work undertaken as an employee or contractor of Industrial Scale.

All Industrial Scale employees and contractors are responsible for obeying all safety rules, following recommended safe work procedures, wearing and using personal protective equipment when required, participating in safety training programs and informing supervisors of any unsafe work conditions. Do not participate in any activities you deem unsafe; you have the right to refuse unsafe work. You are not expected to sacrifice the safety or well-being of personnel for expediency or any other reason. Management, employees, and contractors are all committed to meeting this policy, now and in the future.

Work site safety inspections can be a vital part of your injury prevention efforts if done well. Most companies conduct periodic work site safety inspections. This process is part of the traditional landscape of a comprehensive health and safety plan. At regular intervals, someone within the organization sets out to critically observe in an effort to identify and rectify hazards. But why are they done? Therein lies the interesting question.

"Because we have to."

Safety is often driven by compliance—either to a regulation or a company policy. Certainly, compliance is a factor and one that is often developed with a specific purpose in mind. Sai Construction Company has a clear imperative that employers are required to provide their employees with a place of employment that "is free from recognizable hazards that are causing or likely to cause death or serious harm to employees." Work site inspections serve as the vehicle to record hazards and document abatement.

As the saying goes—if it's not documented, it didn't happen. With that in mind, can companies meet the regulatory requirement by simply walking about every once in a while, and fix what is found? Perhaps. While this satisfies a basic requirement, simply walking around and checking a box does not necessarily offer assurance that the workplace is free of recognizable hazards and meet the spirit and intent of the purpose the regulation is trying to express.

"Because we care."

Conducting workplace safety inspections can serve a greater purpose than simply meeting a compliance requirement. In fact, work site safety inspections can be a vital part of your injury prevention efforts if done well. They can help reassure workers that the workplace is safe and help the company demonstrate that it cares.

In order for this to happen, a more robust process is necessary. The best methodology for this process is also one that is time tested and rooted in continuous improvement—the Deming cycle.