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 sub consultants share this commitment to health and safety.
• Have the best safety performance as compared to similar companies.

We will:

• Always manage our operations in the safest manner, by recognizing and assessing hazards and applying effective controls.
• Make safe conduct a condition of employment.
• Always comply with health and safety legislation and guidelines.
• Ensure our managers and supervisors provide the tools, supervision, training and resources needed for our employees to work safely.
• Ensure our employees and others on Jacques Whitford worksites 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 formalized health and safety management system remains current with industry best practices.