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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Irving Oil Refinery Reaches Safety Milestone

Since it began operations in 1960, the Irving Oil Refinery achieving 365 days without a lost time injury.
 
That means Refinery employees have exceeded 3.5 million workforce hours without a LTI making the Refinery an industry leader in safety performance. 
 
General Manager Mark Sherman tells CHSJ News they are following these practices so people can return to their loved ones everyday in the same condition as they went to work.

He says it's unacceptable to hurt people just because they are going work.   He says its cultural shift not only for Irving Oil but for society in general when years ago it was common for people to be injured or even to see fatalities at work.

Sherman says the results are because of a shift in thinking where safety becomes a core value and factors into everything.