Health and safety in numbers

Health and safety

The occupational health and safety (OHS) of our employ-

ees is part of our DNA. That’s why we have our eye on pre-

vention, awareness, training and sharing. Our robust and

mature OHS management system, as well as our full-time

team of 106 specialized health and safety resources on

our work sites ensure the protection of our workers and

accident prevention

Our system is based on the Certif icate of Recognition COR

program that covers all our work site activities outside Que

bec And we plan to obtain COR certif ication in Quebec

in 2023 This is the springboard we need to achieve the

ISO 450012018 standard that were striving to obtain in

2024 for all of our operations coast to coast

This certif ication conf irms the standardization of our OHS

practices and contributes to the continuous improvement

of our operations Every person on our work sitesfrom

the members of our team to our trade partnersmust ad

here to our culture of prevention Were also leveraging

technology automation and digitalization to ensure the

immediate and future wellbeing of our work teams

In 2022 51239 of our employees workers and trade part

ners received risk and prevention awareness training of

fered directly on our work sites We also led 1143 precon

struction meetings with our partners to communicate and

raise awareness of the importance of health and safety

among the teams on our work sites

Our company is growing and were working on evermore

complex projects but were still uncompromising when

it comes to the health and safety of our people our part

ners and the general public In fact were exponential

ly increasing innovative ways to train and support our

people and avoid accidents while exceeding clients ex

pectations

Mitch Flannigan Field Health and Safety Coordinator

Canadan Building Operations Halifax

In 2022 the easing of health measures by Canadas au

thorities gave us the opportunity to refocus our efforts

on initiatives that we had previously undertaken and on

a more stringent implementation of our procedures Our

OHS and work site teams had been responsible for our

COVID protocol since 2020 in addition to their regular dut

ies Unfortunately during this period we lost a few of our

hardwon achievements since 2014 such as compliance

with wearing safety glasses

We also saw a slight drop in our health and safety perform

ance This can partly be explained by the labour shortage

that we are currently facing Several tens of thousands

of new workers joined our industry over the last year and

new employees are often less aware and less experienced

which can increase the risk of incidents

Despite these results our lower insurance premium rate

proves that our performance is above the industry average

coast to coast The contribution rate to various provincial

OHS organizations is calculated based on the risk of ac

cidents and their cost for every 100 of insurable payroll

Given that our rate is impacted by our past performance

and by the performance of other industry employers our

2022 rate demonstrates our strong management of OHS

challenges compared with all other industry employers

To better develop OHS leadership and culture among our

trade partners supervisors we created a new mandatory

online selftraining module In 2022 these supervisors par

ticipated in 169 training courses The Inf luence Program

for all our superintendents was also a key factor in devel

oping our OHS leadership and culture As of December 31

2022 we had trained 80 of our superintendents and

we are maintaining this momentum in 2023 By developing

the emotional intelligence of our superintendents were

promoting dialogue and sensitivity on our work sites and

this means more effective control of OHS

With the aim of improving our performance were relying on

our sense of innovation our leadership and our presence

on our worksites so that we can develop awarenessrais

ing tools and train our employees to prevent incidents