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Keeping Teams Safe Everyday: Employee and Contractor Safety at Enbridge
NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / August 28, 2023 / Enbridge Originally published in Enbridge's 2...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Keeping Teams Safe Everyday: Employee and Contractor Safety at EnbridgeNORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / August 28, 2023 / EnbridgeOriginally published in Enbridge's 2022 Sustainability ReportKeeping teams safe through every day Our mission is fueling quality of life, and operating safely is essential to that work. It's our duty to keep the public, the members of our team and the environment safe. Safety is one of Enbridge's four core values, and performance metrics related to safety are tied to each Enbridge employee's incentive compensation.2022 highlights In 2022 our performance was on par with the record-setting result in 2021, contributing to a 23% improvement in employee and contractor injuries over a three-year average, and moving us closer to our goal of zero injuries. This year, we streamlined and simplified our safety training tools and systems, with the goal of making them even clearer and more effective. Both our safety management and our environment programs underwent review and improvement. We also implemented a Supplier and Contractor Safety Management Specification to streamline and improve our processes for contractor selection, and spent more time in the field verifying the effectiveness of our contractor management processes. We also continue to shift our safety learning culture toward on-the-job and apprenticeship based qualifications. We believe these experiential approaches are important complements to traditional course-based learning, supporting knowledge retention and mobilization.We also revised our incident investigation approach, making it even more thorough-and intensifying our focus on prevention by devoting increased attention to studying potential events, or near misses. We share and discuss incident (and near-incident) case studies, highlighting all the factors that played a role in the events, including human factors that can contribute to elevated risks even when everyone believes they're being safe.To reinforce and model Enbridge's commitment to worker and contractor safety, we made special efforts in 2022 to have leaders present and visible in the field and at project sites. After two years during which COVID-19 restrictions limited our ability to be physically present in many contexts, we were determined to emphasize leadership visibility-demonstrating in tangible ways that safety is the top pr...