Safety Alert

ICM needs to be consistent with its company policy. With the legal liability the Executive Safety Committee is adamant that if there is an accident, all parties involved need to take a drug and alcohol test.

It is ICM’s policy on near misses, if the superintendent, project manager, or safety coordinator feel that drugs or alcohol were involved in the incident a drug test will be administered.

Definitions

ACCIDENT—an undesired event or sequence of events causing injury, ill-health or property damage.

NEAR MISS—near misses describe incidents where, given a slight shift in time or distance, injury, ill-health or damage easily could have occurred, but didn’t this round.

INCIDENT—an incident is an unplanned, undesired event that hinders completion of a task and may cause injury or other damage.