Safety Program

1. Provide mechanical and physical safeguards to the maximum extent possible.
   
   
2. Conduct a program of safety and health inspections to find and eliminate unsafe working conditions or practices and to control health hazards.
   
   
3. Educating all associates in good safety and health practices.
   
   
4. Provide the necessary Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) along with training for its use and care.
   
   
5. Develop and enforce safety and health rules and require that all associates cooperate with these rules as a condition of employment.
   
   
6. Investigate promptly and thoroughly every accident to find out what caused it and to correct the problem so that it will not happen again.
   
   
7. Set up a system of recognition and awards for outstanding safety awareness and/or performance.
   
   
8. Recognize that the responsibilities for safety and health are shared:
   
   
   1. Management accepts the responsibility for leadership of the safety and health program, for its effectiveness and improvement and for providing the safeguards required to ensure safe working conditions.
      
      
   2. Supervisors are responsible for developing the proper attitudes toward safety and health in themselves and in those they supervise and for ensuring that all operations are performed according to department procedures with the utmost regard for the safety and health of all associates involved including themselves.
      
      
   3. Associates are responsible for following the safety and health procedures and for being safety conscious while on or off the job.