Our Commitment to Safety
At Frazer we are absolutely committed to safety. We strive not only to improve our safety and our environment every day, but also challenge ourselves to incorporate safety into every aspect of what we do. We don’t just want to build the safest, most reliable EMS vehicles on the market, we also want to do it in the safest way possible.
Bringing Safety in the Workplace to New Levels
Our focus on safety and our determination to raise that bar every day adds value across the enterprise. A broadened culture of safety awareness keeps our people engaged in building a safe company and opens their minds to potential developments in improving a safe product.
Employee Involvement
Employee involvement and communication is the key to Frazer’s company-wide commitment to safety. Making sure everyone at Frazer is involved in safety is our number one priority. To make this goal a reality, we take a multi-faceted approach.
Our VPP Committee is a select group of safety minded individuals at Frazer, tasked with guiding new safety programs, maximizing communication between departments, discussing safety issues and concerns, and creating solutions.
All departments bring new methods and ideas to the table, evolving our company-wide commitment to safety. Department managers at Frazer show their support every morning with “morning huddles” where they discuss the daily safety topic, ways to strengthen hazard awareness and streamline hazard prevention.
Employees further enhance our safety culture by being on the watch and submitting hazard identifications for correction. They also work at self auditing to constantly improve their environment and work practices each and every day.
Our monthly, company-wide update meeting opens with Safety first on the agenda. This is an opportunity to gather and discuss safety related topics and solutions. These meetings are invaluable to the progression of Frazer’s level of safety awareness.
Hazard Identification
The key to Hazard prevention is hazard awareness. We are constantly training ourselves and our employees to spot hazards around the workplace. The quicker you can spot a hazard, the sooner it can be controlled, preventing the same hazard from occurring again. This is crucial to the safety environment here at Frazer and has led to numerous improvements throughout the facility.
Frazer is constantly developing ways to increase employee involvement. The “Badge Incentive” program was created to reward employees for spotting hazards. Certain “levels” are achieved based on how many hazards are reported through a streamlined reporting system that was also developed by Frazer. These “levels” serve as incentives and a sort of “bragging right” to an employee’s commitment to increasing the safety of themselves and their fellow employees. Employees are challenged to raise their involvement and increase their awareness, leading to the elimination of these hazards.
Prevention & Control
Arguably the most important aspect of Frazer’s commitment to Safety is Hazard Prevention. Frazer has many programs to identify and eliminate hazards around the workplace. Each department follows a strategic procedure for controlling hazards and minimizing risks. Hazard Prevention at Frazer consists of the following:
- Regularly and thoroughly maintaining equipment.
- Ensuring that hazard correction procedures are in place.
- Ensuring that everyone knows how to use and maintain personal protective equipment.
- Making sure that everyone understands and follows safe work procedures.
- Monthly Safety Audits in every department
- Ensuring that, when needed, there are medical programs available to help deal with workplace hazards and exposures.
- Ensuring that everyone is properly trained via Safety Skills on all aspects of their role and place of work.
Education & Training
Tying all of Frazer’s Safety standards together is the education and training of our employees. Continued improvement in safety comes with continued improvement in training and education including, but not limited to:
- Keeping employees up to date with current safety standards and requirements.
- Distributing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to employees.
- Training employees on proper usage of PPE.
- Training employees on current safety procedures.
- Training employees on the proper evacuation procedures.
- Fire safety training and education.
- Ongoing OSHA training and education.
- Attending regional and national safety conventions.
- Providing updated training to all employees via our Learning Management System
The OSHA Challenge
Frazer is proud to have been accepted into the OSHA Challenge Program. We are currently working towards acceptance into the Voluntary Protection Program (VPP). A company that holds VPP status is highly regarded as having an elite status of safety and has made the commitment to having the safest workplace possible and is up for the challenge to partner with OHSA to show their commitment. VPP is a three phase program to meet OHSA’s requirements to be certified as a VPP worksite. Frazer’s goal is to achieve VPP status, therefore we are continually working with OSHA to solidify a position as one of the “Safety Elite” and achieve VPP status.