SDC Health & Safety Policy

To support our Health and Safety initiatives, SDC manages safety continuously and proactively by establishing systems and accountability for processes to eliminate factors that lead to incidents.

VISION

• All incidents are preventable.
• Good safety and good business performance go hand-in-hand.
• Manage Health and Safety like all other aspects of our business.
• Sustained excellence requires active and complete involvement.

CRITICAL ELEMENTS

• Management leadership sets direction and values.
• Comprehensive participation to successfully support and adapt health and safety initiatives.

SYSTEM DESIGN

• Eliminate factors that lead to incidents, and ensure safety systems are proactively managed.
• Develop a continuous improvement attitude that leads to a lasting safety culture.

PRINCIPLES

• Prevention – The only acceptable goal is ZERO lost time accidents.
• Economic Impact – Direct and indirect cost associated with incidents to our company and customers.
• Prioritization – Long-term, any safety procedure short cut will result in an incident, impacting production and efficiency.
• Process – Immediate incident investigation of causation, focused on fixing processes, procedures, or behaviors to prevent incidents.
• Benefits – Sustainable culture committed to embracing safety issues which improve work conditions and performance.