Our 2024 Safety Action Plan

Understanding our risks, reducing hazards and driving employee engagement are our themes for 2024. Read more about how you can have a direct impact on our Safety success this year.

This year marks our fourth year of Safety Action Plans – a detailed list of actionable goals that help us stay focused on Safety First – Always. In 2024, we have three themes:

 

  • Understanding our risks.
  • Making targeted reduction or elimination of hazards and risks using problem solving.
  • Driving increased employee engagement in Safety programs.

 

Using these themes as a guide, the Safety teams have created the following goals:

 

Seven Required Goals for ALL LOCATIONS:

  1. Safety Committee/Team – At this point, all locations have satisfied this goal. To make it new this year, the requirement is rotating the committee/team once each quarter. This gives more people the opportunity to have direct interaction and influence on Safety at their location.
  2. Job Safety Analyses – Create or review/update all JSAs. This goal is unchanged from previous years because it is something that needs to be done each year.
  3. Lock Out/Tag Out (LOTO) – Create or review/update all LOTO policies and machine-specific procedures.
  4. Safety Training – Complete all required training for all employees at the location.
  5. Safety/5S/Housekeeping – Complete WEEKLY (at a minimum) Safety Walks. New this year, the metric for completion is whether or not the location structures the walks in a way to include all employees on one shift (at a minimum).
  6. Poka Yokes – Complete Poka Yoke Safety Improvement Activities: large divisions (4/year) and small divisions (2/year). Large divisions = 50 employees or more. Small divisions = less than 50 employees.
  7. Near Miss Events – Document near miss events: large divisions (12/year) and small divisions (6/year). Large divisions = 50 employees or more. Small divisions = less than 50 employees.

 

Division-Specific Goals – Complete 1 to 4:

  1. Noise Exposure Reduction
  2. Crane Safety Improvement
  3. Below-the-Hook Lifting/Rigging Safety Improvement
  4. Machine Safeguarding Improvement
  5. Pedestrian Safety Improvement
  6. Forklift Vehicle Safety Improvement
  7. Traffic Flow Safety Improvement
  8. Dock Securement Safety Improvement
  9. Develop Safety, Health and Environmental (SH&E) Standard Work to Improve Operational Rhythm for Safety

 

Divisions have all year to achieve these goals, with results reported quarterly. We’ll share the status of the goals each quarter during the all-employee division Town Hall meetings. Track the status of your division’s goals and look for ways you can help your division succeed.

 

If you have any questions about the 2024 Safety Action Plan or Safety performance, please reach out to your local Safety contact or Tony Dominic, Vice President – Safety, Health and Environment, at Tony.Dominic@olysteel.com.

 

 

Safety First. Always. And, it starts with me.

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