SAFETY
Safety is a core value with Energywise Group. “SAFETY FIRST”
Energywise Group believes safety is more than a list of rules to follow. It is a core value and an important part of the Energywise group culture. We believe that there is nothing more important than the health and safety of our employees, contractors, customers and the public.
We work together with the focus on safety, we have a goal of “Zero Injury” that we know we can achieve and maintain while providing a variety of services to our Automation, Solar and Electrical customers.
The Energywise Group introduces all employees and contractors to the Group safety meetings and expects them to regularly conduct these protocols in their workplaces. The “ “Safety Core Value Statement” is applied to employees, contractors, and visitors in all work locations.
Our employees and contractors regularly conduct training, emergency drills and exercises to reinforce, verify and improve our emergency preparedness and awareness capabilities. Practice prepares us for unplanned situations and increase effectiveness across all business units. We seek to learn and share lessons learned from drills, exercises and real events across our business units to continuously improve preparedness and response abilities.
Energywise Group’s Engagement is that all employees and contractors are responsible for and committed to safety, including following our “Safety Core Value”. To drive and promote the expected safety behaviors we hold regular safety meetings to exchange information and concerns and increase safety awareness. We engage in toolbox talks at worksites focusing on specific hazards, and if a situation or incident merits, we pause or stop scheduled work for safety stand-down sessions and reassess situations reflecting our performance and reinforce our commitment to safety.
Safety initiatives: Intended to inform, increase awareness, and provide data and recommendations to prevent incidents or losses. Initiatives include efforts to address common mechanisms of recordable injury incidents, like slips, trips and falls and being in the line of fire.
Energywise Group’s Emergency Response Plans include procedures, required notifications and response actions that are carried out as efficiently and safely as possible. Emergency Response Plans contain the most relevant information to manage an incident, including working with emergency service organizations during the initial stages of an incident.
Safety is fundamental to everything we do, and we believe that all accidents, injuries and occupational illnesses are preventable, and a workplace with zero incidents is possible.
Our Safety Rules require everyone to be responsible and accountable for recognizing and correcting at-risk behavior or unsafe conditions because a violation could result in serious injury or even death.
Incident and event reporting: We report unsafe conditions and all injuries and illnesses – no matter how minor. This ensures proper medical evaluation and deployment of improved processes to prevent similar incidents or conditions occurring in the future.
Zero tolerance to Safety Rule violations: Working safely is a condition of employment and contracting.
The following rules must always be followed:
Safety meetings: to increase our safety awareness and hazard identification for task in hand. Complete a FLRA (Field Level Risk Assessment) prior to start any task, change of a task or hazard. Refuse unsafe work.
Safety devices and guards: Devices installed to assure safe machine operation shall not be removed, tampered with or bypassed.
Personal protective equipment (PPE): PPE requirements for specific job and in our work area must to be followed.
Electrical work/arc flash: Appropriate Personal Protective Equipment must be used when electrical work is being done or there is arc flash potential.
Lock-out/tag-out: Lock-out/tag-out procedures must be followed.
Fall protection: Fall-arrest systems must be used when working at unprotected heights of 6 feet (1.82 meters) or greater.
Permit-required confined spaces: No person shall enter a permit-required confined space without an approved permit.
Work permits: We utilize properly authorized work permits when required. We follow all special safety procedures during hot work, work on energized electrical devices, elevated work and other high-risk activities. Only trained and authorized personnel perform such activities.
Safe driving, Seat belts/restraints: We minimize distractions when driving on company business, including only using hands-free communication systems. We wear seat belts while driving and require all occupants to do the same. We do not operate motor vehicles while impaired by any substance.
Working safely is a condition of employment and contracting to our company. We will not permit retaliation against an employee who in good faith reports a safety violation. Employees or contractors that violate core Safety Value or other safety rules may be subject to disciplinary action up to and including termination of employment or contract.