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We endeavor every day to manufacture our products in the safest manner possible, which means prioritizing our team’s health, safety and wellbeing.
Across all facilities, we aim to create environments with zero work-related injuries or illnesses, as outlined in our Occupational Health and Safety Policy. Reaching this goal requires a constant focus on our health and safety programs and performance. It also means favoring proactive practices over reactive ones.
To this point, CMC’s Proactive Safety Program empowers everyone to report all incidents, call out potential safety issues and follow a reported issue through to resolution. We review incident reporting monthly and conduct regular health and safety drills as well as facility-wide meetings.
We augment our safety policies and practices with a data-driven approach using our global incident management system. This system also captures near-miss reporting to identify risk trends and allows us to develop corrective procedures to avoid potentially catastrophic issues before they happen.
Our collective emphasis on continuous improvement is embedded across our operations and is one of the first things we initiate when we acquire a new location. For example, in our Tensar Division, by implementing our Cardinal Safety Rules and adding safety managers to Tensar facilities, we have shown the Tensar team the correlation between safety and success, and CMC’s enduring commitment to their wellbeing.
At CMC, safety is our top concern. Our total recordable incident rates are among the lowest in the steel industry.
CMC achieves excellent health and safety performance by supporting a positive culture in reporting all risks and concerns. Our data indicates a high rate of near misses due to the large volume of reporting by our employees, which we identify as a best practice for preventing actual incidents. As a result of our employees’ engagement in our culture of safety, we have excellent incident reporting and a growing trend toward zero incidents. Every month, we celebrate outstanding performance with safety lunches at locations that have achieved milestones. CMC’s total recordable incident rates (TRIR) are consistently below the industry averages for recycling, mill and fabrication sites.
In 2023:
35 CMC facilities received the CRSI Excellence in Safety Award for achieving zero recordable injuries
8 locations received the CRSI Safety Achievement Award for having an incident rate at least 50% lower than the industry average
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Fabrication
CMC safety performance is compared to data from, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the Steel Manufacturers Association (SMA).
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CMC locations that had no recordable safety incidents in 2023 (multiple years are noted in parentheses).
