April 2021 Monthly Safety Report
Our commitment to Safety continues to show results! Special congratulations to thirteen divisions for achieving ZERO recordable injuries or illnesses in 1Q2021.
March 2021 Safety data is in, and our relentless dedication to Safety is showing results!
Our Key Performance Indicators (KPI), the measurable values we use to evaluate our progress toward meeting our Safety objectives, again showed improvement in all three categories – OSHA recordable injuries, Other Case Incident Rate (OCIR) injury events and Days Away, Restricted or Transferred (DART) injury events. Here are the highlights:
- OSHA recordable injuries decreased 52.2%, from 90 in 2020 to 43 in 2021
- OCIR decreased 37.5%, from 32 in 2020 to 20 in 2021
- DART decreased 60.3%, from 58 in 2020 to 23 in 2021
And, our year-over-year performance at a glance:
In addition to the improvement we’re showing in our Key Performance Indicators, thirteen divisions finished the quarter with ZERO OSHA recordable injury/illness events. Congratulations to the employees at these locations for staying focused and staying safe:
- Action Stainless & Alloys – Dallas, TX
- Action Stainless & Alloys – Houston, TX
- Action Stainless & Alloys – Springdale, AR
- Action Stainless & Alloys – Rock Hill, SC
- Action Stainless & Alloys – Riverside, MO
- Integrity Stainless – Latrobe, PA
- Olympic Steel – Buford, GA
- Olympic Steel – Detroit, MI
- Olympic Steel – Dover, OH
- Olympic Steel – Gary, IN
- Olympic Steel – Minneapolis, MN (Plate)
- Olympic Steel – Mount Sterling, KY
- Olympic Steel – Winder, GA
As we head into the second quarter, continue to share best practices through poka yoke and near miss reporting. In March, divisions reported 6 poka yokes and 8 near misses. Read more about it in the Monthly Safety Report on OSSIE, the Olympic Steel intranet.
Questions?
For questions, additional information or support with local safety programs, please contact your local Safety Contact or Tony Dominic, Director – Safety, Health & Environment, at Tony.Dominic@olysteel.com.
Safety First. Always. And, it starts with me.
