Safety

Health and Safety Policy

Mourits Trucking LTD. declares and commits to the prevention of injury and ill health of our workers and our guiding principles which include that health and safety shall never be compromised for our workers.

The following points summarize our corporate overall health and safety goals:

• Mourits Trucking LTD. management declares a commitment to health and safety.
• Mourits Trucking LTD. shall comply with applicable government regulations.
• Mourits Trucking LTD. personal shall comply with our own health and safety standards.
• provide a healthy and safe place to work composed of individuals who choose to make safe decisions, follow requirements and contribute to the process of health and safety.
• Our documented safety management system shall for the basis for all operations undertake by Mourits Trucking LTD.
• Mourits Trucking LTD will provide appropriate training in use of equipment, safe work practices and procedures and handling of hazardous materials.

Our overall health and safety objectives:

• Workers at all levels are responsible and accountable for Mourits Trucking LTD health and safety. Active participation by everyone, every day, in every job, is necessary for health and safety excellence and is the expectation at Mourits Trucking LTD for every work site.
• All management, workers contractors and visitors shall promptly report all work-related near misses, injuries, diseases, incidents, unsafe acts, unsafe conditions, actively participate in our health and safety process and attend all required health and safety training.
• Everyone shall follow safety rules, safe work policies and procedures and cooperate with Mourits Trucking LTD in working towards improved safety.
• All managers will accept direct responsibility and accountability for all matters relating to health and safety for the workers and contractors they supervise directly and/or indirectly.
• All supervisors and managers will deal promptly with worker/contractor health and safety concerns and will advise workers/contractors of actual and potential hazards that are known by the manager or supervisor
• All supervisors, managers and contractors will review and incident investigation and facilitate the corresponding corrective action plan.
• All supervisors, managers and contractors will implement and enforce health and safety rules, regulations, policies, procedures and prescribed instruction in a fair and consistent manner.
• Workers will be involved in writing or revising our health and safety policy. Changes will be disseminated in the same manner.
• We will ensure this policy is communicated to all workers and contractors under our control. This policy is to be posted on all Mourits Trucking LTD bulletin boards, reception areas, included in worker handbooks and discussed during new worker orientation.

Environmental Policy 

Mourits Trucking LTD recognizes that environmental concerns are of critical importance. Mourits Trucking LTD encourages its workers to join the company in full acceptance of and compliance with this policy. We will create procedures that fully comply with federal, provincial and local regulations. We will provide adequate training to our workers to ensure our workers are aware of these procedures and are capable of following them.

Protection of the Environment

We will employ practical measures to protect the environment. We will conserve and protect the water, air, and land resources we use. We will strive to eliminate any releases to land, air or water that may harm human health or environment. Continuous improvement in our environmental performance will be a principal objective.

Waste Management Police Statement 

We will work to prevent waste and pollution at the source whenever possible. New facilities and improvements of existing operations will use processes designed to minimize the environmental effects of our operations and will incorporate functional pollution control equipment.

Recycling and Waste Disposal

We will support recycling programs where practical and will use environmentally safe treatment and disposal practices for waste that is not eliminated at the source or recycled.

Compliance 

We will manage existing facilities so that we meet or exceed legal requirements. We will implement programs and procedures to satisfy compliance. We will conduct compliance audits and monitor procedures and practices to evaluate our performance.

Disclosure

We will inform our workers of our progress in environmental issues. We will cooperate with the authorities and regulatory agencies in responding to inquiries. We will encourage our workers to report to the company conditions that they reasonably believe could be harmful to the environment or pose health of safety hazards so we can initiate prompt corrective actions.

Commitment

Management will consider the environmental and cultural implications of its decisions.

This policy is to be posted in all Mourits Trucking LTD facilities by the site supervisor.