Health, Safety, & Environmental Assurance
DHI is dedicated to providing a safe and efficient work environment for our employees and customers. Through training, compliance, and continuous improvement, we strive to act with integrity at all times. Safety and operations remain equally important to our business. We feel that these are not two distinct disciplines, but rather a cohesive concept of safe operations.
Minimizing Environmental Impact
Coupled with providing a safe workplace, DHI strives to achieve zero impact to the environment. Through continual evaluation of our operations, we identify potential environmental weaknesses in our program and immediately correct them to prevent environmental impact. We work diligently to stay current with state and federal regulations and seek to be regarded as an environmentally friendly workplace. Through sound policies, procedures, and training we educate our employees on safe environmental work practices.
Employee Accountability
Our employees are the foundation of our health, safety, and environmental (HSE) program. Safety is a condition of employment at DHI, requiring that all employees participate in our HSE program. Employees are required to follow all established policies and procedures set forth by DHI and to participate in all required training and safety programs. Employees have a responsibility to immediately report all unsafe acts, unsafe conditions, environmental incidents, or potential environmental incidents to their supervisor and have the authority to cease any operation that poses an immediate threat of injury or damage. Supervisors and managers have the responsibility to take immediate actions to correct such situations. No operation shall be undertaken or continued where there is an immediate threat of harm.
Each employee is responsible for their own safety and the safety of those around them. Each manager is held accountable for the safety of those they oversee. They shall investigate all incidents involving persons under their supervision and develop corrective actions to ensure future incidents do not occur.
Dedicated to a Substance-free Environment
DHI is dedicated to providing a drug- and alcohol-free work environment. All employees are required to report to work fit-for-duty and free from illicit drugs, controlled substances, or any other substance that impairs their ability to safely perform their duties. All employees are expected to comply with our drug-free policy, including drug and alcohol testing procedures outlined in said policy. This policy is applied in a manner that is consistent with applicable laws and regulations.
Safety as a Culture
The DHI safety management system is designed to develop with time, progressively improving as we learn as a company and with the industry’s changing best practices.
DHI employs a behavior-based observation (BBO) system to create company-wide awareness of the hazards and risks we face in our day-to-day operations.
Risk analysis and job safety analysis have become part of the DHI culture, where all operations are assessed properly during the planning stage. We ensure our employees have the right equipment for the job and that no new employees are ever in a position that leaves them unsure of what to do and how to react.
All DHI employees have Stop Work Authority, regardless of circumstance or inherent cost.
The success of the DHI health, safety, and environmental program relies on the full cooperation and support of our employees. The policies stated herein shall be applied to all DHI locations, with the ultimate goal of zero incidents.
