Commitment to Safety Thinking

In 2011, PACE experienced two close-call work place-injury incidents – events that were much too close for comfort. It prompted a member of the company board to issue a challenge to the CEO, asking him to make a workplace safety a top priority for himself. The CEO then drafted a personal pledge to change his own safety behaviour.

He further challenged his senior leadership team to likewise create their own personal pledges and they in turn challenged all PACE staff to draft theirs. It triggered a fundamental cultural change - everyone in the company worked together to help one another keep their commitments by alerting individuals to unsafe behaviour and raising concerns when safety risks were apparent.

It was a change of thinking and instilled a culture of safety. The aspirational goal became the achievement of zero workplace incidents.

Instilling committed safety thinking and awareness put PACE on a path to achieving greater success that was reinforced with the introduction of an Intelex Integrated Management System.