Safety, the Measure of Success
Ensuring a safe workplace on all job sites
Trade-Mark Group of Companies holds Health and Safety in the highest regard, making it our most important measure of success.
Safety begins with senior management at Trade-Mark, and the top-down safety mentality cultivates a culture among the employees at all levels, ensuring a safe workplace on all Trade-Mark job sites.
We believe in and practice continual, consistent improvement across all areas of Health and Safety. Our strong safety culture promotes standard development, continual communication, training, evaluation, and constant improvements in health and safety.
Aggressive incident prevention and proactive safety planning are the building blocks Trade-Mark uses to work towards a benchmark of zero incidents.
Senior Management at Trade-Mark is proud to place Health and Safety at the forefront of our daily operation, understands and fully believes that anything less is unacceptable. It is our most important measure of success.
At Trade-Mark Industrial, we acknowledge that all employees have the right to work in a safe and healthy environment. Our commitment to achieving and maintaining this culture of safety is a reflection of our continual statistical safety improvements year over year.
Safety Certifications & Highlights:
- Certified Joint Health and Safety Committee
- Member of the WSIB Safety Group
- WSIB Return to Work Program
- COR Certified
Health & Safety Policies and Procedures:
- Monitoring industry updates related to legislation, best practices and innovative methods to ensure we stay at the leading edge of safety within our industry
- Creating a proactive atmosphere and approach where management takes a leading role in the continuous development of our safety system
- Establishing clear policies, directly in line with our ongoing objectives and goals
- Developing standardized work procedures for all equipment
Thoroughly prescriptive Health and Safety Manual working copy which includes:
- Training requirements – Orientations, Toolbox Talks, certifications
- Administration – Responsibilities of all parties, Disciplinary action, code of conduct policies, Yard policies
- Emergency preparedness – Emergency planning
- JSA – Hazard assessment for higher risk tasks
- Inspections and audits – forms for completing a wide range of inspections, i.e., (Site, Equipment, PPE)
- PPE – Proper selection and usage, specialized training
- Safe Work Practices – To ensure our day to day operations are successful
- Safe Job procedures – To ensure worker safety while performing specific tasks
- Environmental procedure – Processes in place for recycling of materials and reduce the impact of spills
- Occupational Health – Proper procedures and documentation in case of injury
- Accident Investigation – Thorough incident investigation to review and understand the nature of the incident and to proactively learn from our past to be successful in our future by implementing corrective actions to minimize future risks
- Return to Work program – with the goal of returning an injured employee to pre-injury status
Communication and Training:
- Motivating supervisors and employees to demonstrate safety excellence by involving them in a safety-first culture.
- Ensuring supervisors and employees understand their roles and responsibilities under the Occupational Health and Safety Act and Regulations, Trade-Mark Industrial’s Policies and Procedures and those of our clients.
- Communication of our policies, procedures, safe work policies and best practices through both formal and informal methods.
- Behaviour-based supervisors’ safety observations and communication with their workers, enabling constructive discussions with employees about safe and unsafe work practices
- Formal scheduled training courses are offered both internally and by third parties to meet legislative requirements.
- Constant communication between Health and Safety and Upper Management with weekly safety report outs, Quarterly manager safety meetings and Annual Employee safety meetings
Training Programs Offered:
- Basics of Supervision
- Dupont Stop Training
- Confined Space Awareness/ Attendant
- SCBA Training
- First Aid/CPR- Red Cross certified
- Fall Arrest
- Standard Forklift & High Capacity Forklift
- Elevated Work Platform
- Overhead Crane
- Propane Training
- Lockout and Test
- WHMIS
- Hoisting and Rigging
- Other job specific safety training as required
Evaluate and Audit:
- Ensuring all activities are performed in a safe manner by detailed pre- planning using the best industry practices and procedures
- Documented JSA’s are utilized in instances where the complexity of the work being performed or the inherent risks of the location dictate such pre-planning is required
- Maintaining a proactive approach to identifying Health & Safety hazards with all managers and workers taking ownership to correct deficiencies in the workplace
- Identification and communication of all potential workplace hazards through scheduled site inspections from all levels of management
- Ensuring all employees receive the proper Health & Safety training to be successful in creating and maintaining a safe and healthy work environment
- Internal and external Health and Safety Management Systems annual Audits
Continuous Improvement:
- Continuous reviewing, monitoring, auditing, and improving of our Health & Safety policies and procedures
- Proactively reviewing deficiencies found during our annual audits of current processes and procedures to systematically correct items within a timely manner
- Implementing corrective action plans to reach and exceed our company safety targets
- Thorough post-accident investigating to ensure our policies and procedures are an accurate reflection of our actions and improving processes through specific counter measures
- Individual employee recognition program in place based on positive observational behaviour assessments