HSE POLICY

MACEC has a duty to provide a safe and healthy work environment for all our employees. Daily health and safety management is a basic responsibility of our management team, regardless of the capacity in which they function. This responsibility includes providing a safe work place through the provision of safe equipment, instilling safe work procedures and providing safety training. To this extent, MACEC implemented a Health, Safety and Environmental Program that is administered by our HSE Officer and adhered to by all employees. Our HSE Program is comprehensive and establishes safety as a responsibility of everyone within our organization and at every level within our organization.

Scope of Responsibilities

Management Personnel

Active participation in and support of our health, safety and environmental program is essential. Therefore, all management personnel of MACEC support safety and health at every opportunity. Within their responsibility area, our managers establish realistic safety goals for accident prevention and work together to implement the necessary steps for meeting these goals. Our executive team and managers uphold the ethical standards for the entire organization, thus providing an example that others will follow.

Supervisors

The safety and health of our employees and other individuals is the primary responsibility of our supervisors. In meeting this obligation, MACEC's supervisors:

Assure that all Company, State and Federal safety and health rules, policies and procedures are understood and followed by all workers. This is accomplished by reviewing these rules with the workforce at the start of each job and providing daily site safety discussions. Safety and health policies are also part of our new employee orientation and reviewed with the workforce as the job or conditions change.

  • Require the proper use and care of all necessary personal protective equipment needed to protect workers from hazards.
  • Identify and promptly eliminate job hazards.
  • Conduct safety meetings on a regular, or as needed, basis with all employees.
  • Complete proper accident investigations and follow up on all reported accidents.
  • Actively follow the progress of injured workers and display an interest in their rapid recovery and return to work.

Safety Staff

The Company's safety staff provides advice and assistance in administrating our HSE Policy and Program; however, our HSE Manager administers and maintains our corporate program.

Employees

Although safety oversight is a management responsibility, every MACEC employee is empowered to administer our HSE policy. It is a condition of employment and enhances our personnel's ability to work in a manner that will not inflict self-injury or cause injury to others. In order to ensure that workers understand their responsibility for safety, MACEC provides each employee with a safety packet and provides safety and health orientation.

Environmental Policy

It is the MACEC's policy to prevent the adverse impact of our construction activities on the local environment. As such, we strictly enforce and comply with all applicable provisions of our clients' and local environmental and pollution control standards. Compliance to environmental and pollution controls is flowed down to our subcontractors to further ensure the prevention of adverse environmental impacts.

MACEC and its subcontractors will comply with all applicable provisions of clients and local environment/pollution control standards as they pertain to our construction projects.

The intentional dumping and spilling of toxic chemicals, petroleum products or other hazardous substances is prohibited on the jobsite. In the event of a spill, our subcontractors are required to cleanup and properly dispose of hazardous substances on the job site at their own expense.

Our job site supervisors are responsible for field employee activities and compliance to all construction site environmental and pollution control requirements. Any hazardous products used by or generated by the MACEC are disposed of in accordance with all applicable Federal, State and local laws. Additionally, accidental spills or toxic and hazardous substances meeting the U.S. Army's EM-385 reporting requirements are promptly turned in to our Personnel and Safety Managers who ensure that all initial reporting and reporting of cleanup and disposal procedures are met.