Ensuring safety during the production process is our main priority. We recognize that investing in safety makes good business sense and provides the structure and resources that ensure the production process is carried out in a manner that places the highest priority on safety. In operating our facilities, we believe there is no greater responsibility than to protect our employees from potential industrial hazards. Our aim is to achieve maximum risk reduction by targeting zero injuries and accidents. We believe that no production goal can be considered achieved if, in the course of pursuing it, we hurt our people or the environment.
We operate with the knowledge that safety is the product of appropriately designed and maintained plants, supplemented by a well trained work-force that upholds the highest standards with regard to safety systems.
Vulcan has contracted with safety experts to fully implement our Total Safety Program and we have been duly diligent in meeting the standards of care as expected by law. Our Corporate Safety Policy and Implementation Program is built around:
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