WORLD CLASS SAFETY

The Most Effective Results Based Safety Improvement System Ever

HERE ARE SOME TYPICAL RESULTS OF WORLD CLASS SAFETY:

• Dramatic changes in the safety culture at your mine (from top to bottom).
• Tremendous increase in safety awareness throughout the organization.
• Results based accountability for safe work practices.
• Reduced accidents.
• Lower workmen compensation costs.
• Reduced MSHA & State violations.

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WHY DO MOST SAFETY AND PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS NOT WORK?

1. Because they are just that -- PROGRAMS.... and Programs tend to lose their energy and effectiveness.
2. Most of these programs place their emphasis on the process -- not the results and only results can sustain an improvement system.
3. They fail to become the way your company does business -- they exist as an external process.

WHAT IS WCS?

WCS is a three phase system that cannot fail to improve safety performance.

ONE: The Safety Assessment Phase

• Introduction to WORLD CLASS SAFETY -- WHAT IS IT? WHO CAN ACHIEVE IT? HOW IS IT ACHIEVED?
• Determination of the status and effectiveness of your safety practices.
• What is the "Safety Temperature" of your mine? This survey includes input from your entire management team and work force. You can compare your results to our extensive database in the mining industry.
• Specific safety concerns and issues are identified throughout the organization.
• Targeted safety training classes are conducted.
• Initial safety goals are developed.

TWO: The Implementation Phase

• Development of actions to eliminate safety concerns and issues identified in Phase One.
• Specific accountability time frames and measures are established.
• Your management team and work force are mobilized in a campaign to accomplish their safety objectives.
• The specifics of this campaign are captured in an extensive report that is distributed to all employees at the mine. This is the "book" that your mine team has written outlining how they will achieve World Class Safety status.

THREE: The Accountability Phase

• This is a serious of ten monthly "checkpoints" in your quest to achieve World Class Safety.
• The WCS status report card -- Did we do what we said we would do? Did we achieve our WCS goals?
• Development of the WCS plan for the next month.
• WORLD CLASS SAFETY becomes the way your company, your management team and your work force does business.

WHY DOES WCS WORK?

• Because it mobilizes your entire management team and work force to develop a world-class safety attitude and culture at your mine.
• It establishes responsibility and accountability for safe work practices at all levels of your company.
• It uses mining industry proven techniques to identify mine specific problems, issues and practices that negatively affect safety performance.
• It includes targeted training in key safety areas.
• It develops key indicators and measures that become stepping stones to the attainment of world class status.
• It was developed by, and is implemented by mining people -- not theorists.