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MAY 2014
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As lead judge Steve Stewart, GM 130,000-plus prefabricated vertical drains

environment, health & safety major into a former tailings pond with no lost
projects, Business Services, noted,
time incidents and a recordable injury

“A common theme within the Personal
frequency of zero.
& Process Safety nominations is the
Being physically and mentally it for duty is
courageous individual or group who
identiies risks and then does whatever it also crucial to workplace safety, so Health

takes to mitigate them. Many rely on & Wellness is an important subset of this
tenacity and determination to make Suncor award category.

a safer place to work; others have that
Recognizing that soft tissue injuries (STI)
special ability to engage people with the were signiicant contributors to their injury
message that ‘We’re all in this together’
numbers, a team from Mine Operations
and inspire them to rally around a great had the courage to take safety out to the
safety initiative.”
front lines, engage operators with a spirit
of collaboration and inspire them to take
The idea that we’re all in this together was
at the heart of the initiative launched in ownership of the initiative.

2011 by a small team in our Edmonton Personal Safety, Contractor Individual or Team
reinery to improve contractor safety. The results speak for themselves. While Hayward Baker Canada, Oil Sands & In Situ
Michael Adamoski, left, and Brad Zaworski take
Mine Operations employees experienced a safety to heart.
While the aim was to meet process safety
obligations, the initiative quickly evolved total of 30 STIs in 2010, that number
plummeted to just one STI in 2013 (as of
into the creation and implementation of
the date of the nomination).
the contractor safety governance
document – the framework for alignment “It’s a great example of a collaborative,

with Suncor’s ‘one way’ philosophy.
transferrable initiative that effectively
engaged employees to get great results,”
And speaking of contractors: Hayward
says Steve.
Baker’s H.B. Wick Drain Division, a global
supplier and installer of vertical strip drain
To all of POEA’s Personal & Process Safety
technologies, is the kind of contractor we recipients in 2013 – and everyone else who
love to work with. Enthusiastically
puts safety irst and foremost in everything
embracing Suncor’s Journey to Zero you do – congratulations!
philosophy, they successfully installed

Health & Wellness
Mine Operations STI Reduction Initiative,
Oil Sands & In Situ
Mike Bennett, left, and Lancaster Lawrence, along
with their team, had the backbone to take safety to the
front lines.