Safety Policy

Company Policy:

We've integrated safety measures into every facet of what we do. Our professionals undergo extensive training to navigate any situation with skill and caution, ensuring both your satisfaction and safety. It's our unwavering commitment to prioritize project safety that sets us apart in the industry. We're not just providing a service – we're delivering safety, trust, and reliability.

GRC is dedicated to providing a safe and healthy work environment for all employees, sub-contractors, and customers. The company shall follow operating practices that will safeguard employees, the public, and company operations.

We believe all accidents are preventable. Therefore, we will make every effort to prevent accidents and comply with all established OSHA - safety and health laws and regulations.

As a field requirement, all superintendents and foremen’s are required to pass the OSHA 10 certification and are in many instances OSHA 30 compliant. For our customers information we follow practices listed in training requirements manual https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/publications/osha2254.pdf

Management Commitment to Safety:

Management is dedicated to doing everything possible to assure safety on and off the site. Accidents, unsafe working conditions, and unsafe acts jeopardize both employees and company resources. Injuries and illnesses result in discomfort and inconvenience to entire projects and personnel. Management provides sufficient staffing, funds, time, equipment and training so that employees can work productively and safely. We use Job Safety Analysis (JSA) procedures.

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

Proper PPE is mandatory on all job sites. GRC requires the following minimum clothing/PPE for all projects:

• Hard hats must be worn at all times on the job site. At a minimum, hard hats must meet the ANSI/ISEA Z89.1-2009 standard.

• At a minimum, long work pants and waist-length shirts with sleeves covering the shoulder are to be worn at all times. Sleeveless shirts or going shirtless are not acceptable work attire.

• Steel or composite-toed work boots or shoes are required on all job sites. During roofing operations when non-skid or non-marking footwear is expressly approved by management and site supervision, other footwear may be approved. This footwear must be changed to steel or composite toed work boots or shoes when returning to ground level.

• Task-appropriate hand protection must be available and used as per JSA requirements.

• Task-appropriate eye protection must be available and used as per JSA requirements.

• Ear protection must be available when noise levels will approach or exceed OSHA minimums and as required by JSA.
• Every employee will have an appropriate and approved fall protection harness for all work above 6’ from a lower level.

Assignment of Responsibilities:

Management believes that safety is everyone’s responsibility. Everyone should have a safe attitude and practice safe behavior at all times. To best administer and monitor our safety policies, the following responsibilities are delegated. The list should not be construed as all-inclusive and is subject to change as needed.

GRC will:

• Provide sufficient staffing, funds, time, and equipment so those employees can work safely and efficiently.
• Demand safe performance from each employee and express this demand periodically and whenever the opportunity presents itself.
• Delegate the responsibility for a safe performance to the Safety Director, Supervisors, Foremen, and Employees, as appropriate.
• Hold every employee accountable for safety and evaluate performance accordingly.
• Periodically review the Safety Program effectiveness and results.

GRC Management will:

• Provide the resources, direction, and audits to integrate safety into management systems.
• Review all pre-project planning tasks at the start of all new projects or jobs.
• Establish and maintain a safe education and training program.
• Periodically conduct surveys, meetings, and inspections.
• Advise supervisors and employees on safety policies and procedures.
• Assure that all newly hired employees have been given a thorough orientation concerning the company safety program.
• Make available all necessary personal protective equipment (PPE); job safety material and first aid equipment.
• File all workers’ compensation claims immediately and work with the worker’s compensation carrier to ensure proper medical treatment is provided to injured workers and they are returned to work as quickly as medically possible.
• Log and file OSHA forms 300, 300A, and 301 as required.

GRC Supervisors/Foremen will:

• Implement all rules and regulations.
• Comply with all contractor safety rules.
• Notify site supervision if job site safety is compromised by unsafe conditions or activities observed. This includes other trades and contractors not under GRC supervision.
• Ensure that each employee is trained and follows all applicable OSHA standards, codes, laws, and ordinances.
• Ensure that all employees review, sign, and adhere to the appropriate Job Safety Analysis (JSA) for each task.
• Perform all necessary inspections and checklists to maintain a safe and orderly work environment.
• Stop or otherwise shut down work operations when unsafe conditions arise, until such time as the hazards are removed.

GRC Employees will:

• Comply with all safety programs, rules, regulations, procedures, and instructions that are applicable to his/her actions and conduct.
• Read, certify understanding of, and maintain compliance with both the GRC Safety Program and the site-specific Emergency Evacuation Plan.
• Refrain from any unsafe act that might endanger him/her or fellow workers.
• Use all safety devices and personal protective equipment provided for his/her protection.
• Report all hazards, incidents, and near-miss occurrences to their immediate supervisor, regardless of whether or not injury or damaged property was involved.
• Promptly report all injuries and suspected work-related illnesses, however slight, to his/her immediate supervisor or Safety Director.
• Participate in safety meetings, training sessions, and surveys as requested and provide input regarding how to improve safety.
• Notify Safety Director immediately of any change in physical or mental conditions or use of prescription drugs that would affect the employee’s job performance or safety of him/her or others.
• Notify management immediately of any serious driving, drug/alcohol, or criminal convictions.
• Be a safe worker on (and off) the job. Help coworkers do their job safely. Come to work every day with a safe attitude.
• Read, certify understanding of, and maintain compliance with any and all Job Safety Analyses (JSAs) concerning each task at every phase of construction
• Stop work when conditions or hazards change or when unexpected conditions are encountered during the execution of work, or when work cannot be performed as written, or instructions become unclear during execution.

First Aid

The default area for minor first aid treatment shall be the GRC Foreman’s vehicle. Each GRC foreman’s work vehicle will be equipped with a first aid kit to aid in the treatment of minor cuts, abrasions or injury. We will consult the site-specific Emergency Evacuation Plan for additional specific instructions, first aid areas, and available resources. Emergency numbers will be included on the Project Information Sheet and Emergency Evacuation Plan.

In case of a non-emergency accident, directions to the nearest hospital are included on the Emergency Evacuation Plan. Safety Data Sheets (SDS), located in a handbook in each foreman’s truck should be consulted as necessary if chemical exposure requires first aid.

GHS/SDS

The GHS is an acronym for The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals. The GHS is a system for standardizing and harmonizing the classification and labeling of chemicals. It is a logical and comprehensive approach to:

• Defining health, physical and environmental hazards of chemicals;
• Creating classification processes that use available data on chemicals for comparison with the defined hazard criteria; and
• Communicating hazard information, as well as protective measures, on labels and Safety Data Sheets (SDS).

Each GRC foreman’s work vehicle will include a book containing Safety Data Sheets (SDS). Most chemical manufacturers also make the SDS for their products readily available online. Foremen/Superintendents will consult the SDS to understand and mitigate potential hazards of chemicals before using them. The Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) requires chemical manufacturers, distributors, or importers to provide Safety Data Sheets (SDSs) (formerly known as Material Safety Data Sheets or MSDSs) to communicate the hazards of hazardous chemical products.

If an SDS is not included or is missing from the handbook, notify a supervisor or management as soon as is practical so that it can be included on all job sites.

Accountability for Safety:

GRC believes everyone is accountable for safety. The Safety Manager will establish safety objectives, develop and direct accident prevention activities. All employees should strive to reach those objectives.