Safety
Sustaining Our Safety Culture
Safety is one of our Core Values and a guiding force behind our efforts to ensure that everyone goes home safe each day. Our proactive safety culture encourages employee engagement, including by starting all meetings such as Company-wide events, team huddles, and virtual meetings with a seasonally or topically appropriate safety or environmental reminder.
Both leadership and support teams take an active role in promoting safety by prioritizing risk and hazard identification. From personal protective gear to safe equipment operation, our teams strive for an injury-free workplace through frequent training and continuous process improvements.
Starting with new hires and extending throughout our team of industry professionals, our commitment to Safety reflects a culture of collaboration, transparency, and continuous improvement.”
—Rodrigo Eufragio, Store Manager, Pick-n-Pull Portland, OR
Schnitzer’s Safety Strategy
- Cultivate personal safety leadership
- Achieve zero injuries
- Prevent serious injuries and fatalities
Safety Performance
We track safety performance across a variety of leading and lagging industry standard metrics.
Fiscal 2022 Safety Highlights
20,000+ Safety-related training hours completed by employees
22,000+ Layered Safety Observations performed
80+ Recordable-free facilities
40+ Facilities recordable-free for 4 consecutive years
Our Total Case Incident Rate
(# of incidents per 200K working hours)
Our Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred Rate
(# of incidents per 200K working hours)
Our Lost Time Incident Rate
(# of incidents per 200K working hours)
Our strong Safety culture is a direct result of our people working together across all levels to manage a constantly changing work environment.”
—Cameron Johnson, Schnitzer General Manager Attleboro, MA
