A Holistic Safety Philosophy
Safety is foundational to how we operate. From planning to execution, we embed safety into every stage of our projects, empowering our teams to take ownership and look out for one another every step of the way.
Empowering Our People
At OPD, environmental health and safety (EHS) is non-negotiable. More than a checklist of rules, it’s an ongoing conversation that guides our projects and our actions. Our goal is to continuously improve our processes and products through innovation, creating a spirit of mutual benefit with the individuals and communities around us. This means that we take a holistic approach to stewardship to ensure the well-being of every life we touch. We constantly seek out new ways to improve the impact we have on our environment, our employees, our preferred partners and our community while ensuring that the needs of those around us are met.
Our people play a pivotal role in fulfilling our EHS responsibilities, so we see it as our mission to increase knowledge and keep them safe during all phases of our projects. We integrate safety into everything that we do to empower our employees, customers and contractors to keep our foundations and promises front of mind.
Using Vision to Build the Foundation
At OPD, we recognize that each of us contributes to carrying out operations that safeguard the health and safety of everyone engaged in a project. Our safety vision is centered around fostering what we refer to as "everyday stewards." We want our teams equipped with guidance to make safe decisions for themselves. We build capability in our people and resilience in our systems to optimally manage EHS risks. By creating everyday stewards, we embed EHS in all we do and transforming our foundation to a balanced perspective of principles and rules.
"As part of the EHS team, it makes me proud knowing that we all share the same priority: keeping our safety culture at the top. This makes a big impact not only with our clients but also with our boots on the ground – our employees."
EHS Project Manager
"Safety does not start and stop at work. It is something that you take with you, and you keep in your mind all day every day. The best safety stories are the ones that you can look back and see all the hard work that it took to build the plant when it's up and running — knowing that it took a great group of people to do the job right, but most of all, safely.”
Field Safety Coordinator