All employees were treated to breakfast on March 4th for an update on our Corporate Safety Initiative (CSI). We have had many successes with CSI over the last seven years, and have continued the stretch to reach new goals.
Goals
The updated CSI goals are:
Strategies
Strategies help us work toward reaching our goals. The CSI Committee works with ad-hoc committees to discuss and recommend the actions needed to get us where we want to be. Here are some of the strategies for 2015-2017:
Lighthouse
An update on the Lighthouse process was shared at the breakfast. Lighthouse is our peer observation process that began several years ago. The Lighthouse Steering Team identified critical behaviors which have contributed to injuries and accidents in the past.
Trained employees conduct peer-to-peer observations and provide feedback to reinforce safe behaviors and reduce behaviors that put employees at risk for injuries. Data from those observations is used to identify and remove barriers to safe job performance.
To date, 39 employees have been trained as Observers, with 24 actively participating. Over 200 employees have completed the one-day training class to learn more about the process. A total of 877 observations have been performed, identifying 66 at-risk behaviors and over 9,000 safe behaviors. Seven barriers have been removed.
Safety Incentives
This year, a Safety Incentive Ad Hoc Committee was formed to evaluate our safety incentives and recommend changes. Here are the new incentives:
Occupational Health Services
Last year, there were more than 2,000 visits to our clinic. Several updates have been made to our Occupation Health Services:
Many thanks to the CSI Steering Committee for the work they do throughout the year to guide this process: John Powell, Chair; Julius Patrick, Vice-Chair; Steve Porter; Hunter Dixon; Lee Ausbon; Cliff Cahoon; James Whitaker; Steve Hawley; Carl Smith, Past Chair; Lou Norris; Kevin Keyzer; and Kelly Smith.