The Safety Training Room at our refinery hosts many of our safety program sessions.

Safety is a way of life for us. Through a number of programs that instill a culture of safety in all of our operations, we work to improve personal behaviours, operational procedures and occupational health to protect our employees, the communities where we operate and the environment.

This safety culture permeates throughout our company, and can be seen through the daily actions of our employees. To personalize this commitment, we created a “Safety: Our Way of Life” campaign, featuring images of employee family members with a quote from the employees, stating why their family is their reason to work safe.

One of our most important safety measurements is workplace injuries. We measure workplace injuries by what is called Recordable Injury Frequency (RIF) rate. This refers to the number of injuries that occur for every 200,000 hours worked, or the equivalent of working full time for 100 years. Recordable injuries are those that cannot be treated onsite (such as stitches or injuries that require prescription medication) or injuries that prevent an employee from coming back to work the following day.

Thanks in part to our daily commitment to safety, our refinery recently achieved close to 1.8 million workforce hours without a lost-time injury and reduced its RIF rate by 45 percent since 2009. Our company’s overall RIF rate is currently an average of 1.41 – our goal is to reduce this total to 0.2 over the next four years, far surpassing industry averages.