ISM is committed to providing a healthy and safe workplace for all personnel by establishing and maintaining safe work practices through adequate procedures and direction. The organization recognizes safety of our valued employees as number one priority.

The following commitments are made to ensure this goal is achieved throughout our operations:

• Meeting or exceeding all applicable occupational health and safety legislation
  and other management commitments

• Promoting safe work practices among all personnel through education and communication

• Demonstrating continual improvement of the effectiveness of the Occupational Health and Safety Program through regular evaluation and reporting of safety performance and procedures

• Minimizing the health and safety risks of activities by conducting all aspects of
  our steel manufacturing & erection activities in a manner that
  guards against potential incidents

• Where any worker experiences an injury of illness, make every effort to accommodate that worker to ensure a safe return to work

Senior Management has the responsibility to achieve a healthy and safe workplace. Specifically they must:

• Establish and maintain adequate policies standards, and procedures

• Maintain buildings and equipment to provide a safe working environment

• Provide required tools and appropriate training

• Ensure personnel have adequate resources to implement safety commitments.

Supervisors have the responsibility to implement health and safety commitments. Specifically they must:

• Ensure that employees are instructed and trained in safe work practices

• Ensure compliance with established policies, standards and procedures
  conduct regular safety inspections

• Conduct regular safety meetings

• Report to Senior Management any real or potential safety or health hazards

• Conduct accident investigations

It is the responsibility of all personnel to:

• Observe established policies, standards and procedures;

• Work in a safe and prudent manner; wear proper PPE at all times;

• Identify potential hazards;

• Protect themselves and fellow workers;

• Report any real or potential safety or health hazards to their Supervisor.

• The goal of Safety at Work is to help employees understand the importance of OHS in their workplace, and of an OHS program as a tool to provide a framework for effective management of OHS issues.

• Creating a culture of problem solving and solution seeking instead of blame attribution
• Fostering of an environment of improvement
• Showing the value of a system approach
• The importance of all levels of staff setting good OHS examples

After employees have completed the training, they should be able to:

• Explain the benefits of root cause analysis of problems and recognizing hazards & risks
• Understand the benefits of a formalized OHS program both to fellow employees and their company
• Understand the structure of an OHS program
• Identify their own general responsibilities with respect to OHS within their environment