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In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, Pomerleau quickly formed a multi- disciplinary committee tasked with implementing protocols that would ensure everyone's safety, allow for a rapid resumption of on-site acti- vities, and mitigate any consequences of the crisis for our partners. As a leader of the Committed Contractor movement, we felt it essential to promote rigorous health-safety measures across the entire industry, so that we could enable the rapid and efficient resumption of work on construction sites, while also minimizing the impacts of COVID-19 on our industry. Wanting to build on the successes of the past and inform the success of the future, we then launched an initiative to proactively develop contingency plans so that we could replicate this agile and resilient response to any crises that might arise in the future.

Deploying a proactive response plan to COVID-19

We have developed a Specialized Partners Leadership Project, an online training course aimed at mobilizing the supervisors of partners who are not under our responsibility but with whom we work, to encourage them to adhere to Pomerleau's OHS commitments.

Developing a leadership project for our specialized partners

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BEST PEOPLE → SCOPE OF ACTION → ENSURING HEALTH AND SAFETY FOR ALL ON OUR WORKSITES