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• Safety was added to the Public Works core values
of responsiveness, respect and integrity.
Safety First.
Safety Always. • Managers began to model safety by including safety
messages in their staff meetings, wearing personal
protective gear in the field and conducting safety audits
of their work sites.
Our goal: Make sure employees end their
workday as healthy as or healthier than
when they started their shift. • Safety messages were added to the media walls,
newsletters, bulletin boards and computer screens.
• Our Safety Policy Statement was reissued.
• Public Works held the second annual Safety Recognition
Breakfast where employees and teams were recognized
as safety leaders.
• The Operations Safety Committee created posters
on the value of working safely, driving safely
and staying healthy.
• Vision Zero training began for Public Works drivers as
part of the City's mission to reduce traffic-related deaths
and serious injuries.
A year after Public Works managers introduced initiatives to
instill a culture of safety in the organization after injuries and
accidents began to creep up, the results are in: We had fewer
injuries than at any given time in the past three decades.
As a start, the managers agreed that in order to take our
safety program to the next level, we needed to build a
culture of safety where every manager, supervisor and front
line employee takes personal responsibility for the safety
program. To move the culture forward, several new initiatives
were implemented:
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