Safestart - Case Studies

These 2 page case studies provide an excellent insight into how Safestart was implemented in real workplaces, and how it made a dramatic difference to how safety was perceived and how seriously it was taken.

These companies have achieved reductions in lost time due to injury on the order of 70-80% within 18 months of its implementation, together with savings calculated in millions of dollars.

BC Hydro - Read how this utility of 1.6 million customers achieved a 70% reduction in workplace injuries within 2 years, from 2001 to 2003.
Canfor - Read how a pulp & lumber yard saved over $1M in workers compensation payouts, and reduced its Medical Incident Rate from 48 per year down to 9.
Leatherman Tool Group - By focusing on the often forgotten dimension of employee responsibility, this tool manufacturer reduced their injury rate from 78 in 2000 down to 15 in 2002.
Quincy Compressors - With a new attitude "140 employees, 140 safety managers", this 80 year old business began Safestart training in 1999, and reduced its accident rate from 15 that year, down to 2 in 2002, with no accidents recorded for the next 2 years.
Simmons Company - Read how a multi location manufacturing company turned safety first into a self funded programme, then into a profit centre.

 

"These companies have achieved reductions in lost time due to injury on the order of 70-80% within 18 months of its implementation, together with savings calculated in millions of dollars."