Safety Stand Down Toolbox Talk Guiding Principles

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Safety Stand Down Toolbox Talk Guiding
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• www.safetystanddown.ca

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• A meeting of frontline workers and senior
  executives

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• How many of you have seen the Petroleum Industry
  Guiding Principles for Worker Safety?

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• And how many have actually read them?

• Our company has posted these Guiding Principles
  in a prominent place for an important reason.
• We want you to know that we as a company accept
  and affirm our responsibility for the safety of
  everyone who is working for us.
• Our senior executives have also signed these
  Guiding Principles to show our commitment to
  these principles for your safety.
• By posting them, we want you all to know that we
  dont take this commitment lightly.

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• How does this affect you?
• First, you should know that the Guiding
  Principles emerged from the UPITFOS report of
  1987 (UPITFOS Upstream Petroleum Industry Task
  Force on Safety).
• At that time, some major industry associations
  decided we needed an industry standard for
  workplace safety, so they developed these four
  Guiding Principles.

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• Principle 1 Responsibility
• The 1 principle discusses who is responsible for
  worker safety, and this topic can be a little
  confusing these days.
• We work in a multi-employer worksite, so the
  worker next to you could be a company employee, a
  contractor, a subcontractor, a service company
  rep, or a supplier.
• No matter who you are, each of you is responsible
  for promoting safety at the worksite - but the
  buck doesnt stop there!
• Since everyone ultimately takes direction from an
  operator, this principle stresses that operators
  are responsible for taking a leadership role in
  promoting the safety of ALL their workers.

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• Principle 2 Priority
• The second guiding principle states that your
  safety is a top priority for us regardless of
  your role or activity on our worksite.

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• Principle 3 Recognition
• Third, the operating company has a responsibility
  to look at the safety record of anyone who is
  working for them.
• That means we look at, and recognize, safety
  performance and not just cost.
• Each company also needs to find an appropriate
  way to recognize safe workers.

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• Principle 4 Improvement
• Fourth, we pledge to cooperate with other
  organizations and the entire industry to promote
  methods and practices that improve safety
  performance.
• A regular COR safety audit is a good example of
  one way we can do this.

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Conclusion

• So, these four principles are the foundation of
  our companys safety policy.

• We are proud to support this industry standard
  and to stand behind your safety on our worksite.
• Thats why we have signed and posted this
  important document.