Mears Group Safety Culture
Job site safety is a way of life at Mears - and a point of pride. We are renowned for the caliber of our safety programs and our reputation for maintaining safe job sites. We approach every job with safety as our maximum emphasis. We develop programs to effectively address both customer and Mears objectives through adherence to a strong safety and health policy that exceeds industry standards. We strive to create the safest possible working environment with daily on-site briefings attended by every employee focusing on general safety practices as well as specific job-site situations.
At Mears, safety isn't a buzzword. It's a philosophy that permeates our entire organization and a condition of employment. Every Mears employee participates in extensive, on-going safety training programs with regular refresher courses and recertification. Every employee has stop-work authority, and has a voice on the Safety Committee.
Mears and its employees understand that no job is so important and no service is so urgent that we cannot take the time to perform our work safely.
Outstanding individual and team safety excellence is recognized and rewarded for outstanding safety awareness and activities.
Highlights of our safety program include:
- Drug & Alcohol free workplace
- Mandatory safety orientation for all employees
- 10 hour OHSA Safety training for supervisors
- Asbestos abatement
- Hazard Communication
- Lock-out/Tag-out
- Fire Safety & Prevention
- Electrical Safety
- Emergency Response & Evacuation
- Housekeeping Safety
- Personal Protective Equipment
- Material Handling
- Blood borne Pathogens
- Machine Guarding
- Back Injury Prevention - Ergonomics
- Violence in the Workplace
- First Aid & CPR
- Full time safety director and staff
- Job specific Environment, Safety & Health Plans
- Job site Safety & Health Assessments (JHA)
- Safety meetings on all levels
- Accident and incident investigation
- Root cause analysis
- Jobsite and equipment inspections
- Forklift instruction, evaluation and certification
- Hearing conservation program
- Contractor Safety Orientation
- Red Cross accredited training provider
- NCCER accredited training center and sponsor
- NACE accredited training center
- OQ certified evaluators for field evaluations for NCCER and Veriforce
