Jacques Whitford is committed to the protection of the health and safety of our employees and the general public. We believe that incidents and injuries are preventable, and that a job is only well done if it is done safely.

Our goals are to:

• Prevent workplace incidents, and injuries.
• Continually improve our health and safety performance.
• Foster a culture in which all employees, partners, contractors, and subconsultants share this commitment to heath and safety.
• Have the best safety performance, as compared to similar companies.

We will:

• Make safe conduct a condition of employment.
• Always comply with health and safety legislation and guidelines.
• Operate under a documented health and safety management system.
• Ensure our employees have the tools, training and resources needed to work safely.
• Involve all employees in our health and safety management system through representation on joint health and safety committees.
• Review our health and safety performance regularly, evaluate performance information, and communicate performance to all employees.
• Learn from our experiences to prevent future incidents.
• Ensure that our health and safety management system remains relevant.