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PLENCO CSR Initiative
Safety Policy
Since its founding, Plenco management has
ascribed to a core value: everything possible must
be done to ensure
Plenco employees go home
to their loved ones at the end of their shift in
the same condition they came to work, without
sore shoulders or backs or injuries of any kind.
All injuries and occupational illnesses, as well
as safety and environmental incidents, are pre-
ventable. Plenco’s constant goal is to achieve
“Zero-Incidents” in all these categories. This
requires vigilance, coordination and communication
between Plenco management and employees. We
work to achieve this in the following ways:
• Started in 1968, three years before OSHA
became a federal government agency, the
Plenco Safety Representative Program
was
organized as a top priority. Each shift and each
department has a Safety Representative
responsible for identifying safety issues, assist-
ing in safety inspections and initiating action
to correct unsafe equipment, practices and/or
circumstances. The Plenco Safety Manager
implements, administers, monitors and evaluates
the Safety Representative program.
• Plenco maintains an Employee Safety Manual
and a Contractor Safety Manual that outline
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) measures
and requirements. Although required and nec-
essary, PPE is the last and least impactful line
of defense with regard to employee safety.
Rather, what takes precedence are:
Elimination of hazardous material wherever
possible in the facility and,
Engineering controls that are the hierarchy
of Plenco’s safety posture expressed in terms
of
Elimination, Control and Protection
.
• Plenco provides information to employees about
workplace safety and health issues through
new-hire orientation, regular internal communica-
tion channels such as Employee-Supervisor
meetings, bulletin board postings, and memos
along with other written or digital communica-
tions.
• Employees and supervisors receive scheduled
workplace safety training that covers potential
safety and health hazards, safe work practices,
and procedures for eliminating or minimizing
hazards.