Forest for Tomorrow (FFT) Safety Policy

FFT is committed to maintaining an organizational culture where all staff proactively participate to ensure a safe and healthy workplace as a fundamental component of every day business.

The management of FFT is committed to promoting incident free workplaces by:

1. Providing FFT staff with opportunities for effective education, training, and supervision to minimize risk and the potential for injury;

2. Requiring compliance with applicable health and safety legislation, regulations, and jurisdictional requirements on FFT projects;

3. Providing adequate resources to support the promotion and achievement of FFT health and safety objectives;

4. Participating and collaborating with organizations within the overall forest industry sector to promote forest sector safety;

5. Subscribing to the Health and Safety Accord of the British Columbia Forest Industry and requiring Recipients and their contractors to be SAFE Certified in the BC Forest Safety Council SAFE Company Program; and

6. Continually improving FFT health and safety performance through evaluation of input from employees and other parties, periodic review of program elements, and monitoring other evolving and changing factors within the forest industry.

FFT supervisory personnel will be accountable for ensuring employees are properly trained for their jobs, making employees aware of safety hazards, ensuring unsafe action or conduct is not tolerated in the workplace, and endorsing sound health and safety work practices on a daily basis.

FFT workers will be accountable for conducting their work activities in accordance with sound health and safety practices and will endorse these practices with their fellow workers.