At Norwest Engineering, health and safety are the cornerstones of our operating philosophy. We believe that healthy and safe employees are happier, more energetic, and are therefore, more productive for our clients. Norwest takes pride in our safety training programs, ensuring that each employee has the necessary tools to remain safe, both in the office and field environments alike.   Health and safety training and awareness requires a multi-pronged approach, which includes:

• Hazard recognition and mitigation both in office and in job-site settings.
• The understanding that safety awareness is the responsibility of each individual; observation and prevention being the keys.
• Safety must be continuously discussed and brought to the forefront by means of safety meetings and training.
• Any successful safety program requires not only education and training but regular audits to identify areas for improvement.  Audits are performed for both safety programs and workplaces.
• Develop and train using Job Safety Analyses (JSA’s) as a set of written instructions for performing any task safely.  Observation and audit of each JSA will help identify areas of improvement.
• Maintaining a group of employees trained in first aid and CPR ensure that every project has a Safe Work Plan that identifies an assessment of potential risks and mitigation of these risks with safe solutions.  A step in the hazard analysis for each project is the Constructability Review, where potential hazards are identified and mitigation steps are defined.

The conclusive goal of all of Norwest’s health and safety activities is to experience zero incidents, but beyond that, we strive to see that everyone who works for or with Norwest goes home at the end of the workday in at least as good a condition as they started.