ATLANTIC CANADA HAS ARCTIC FEVER WILL FLUORSPAR MINING RETURN TO THE ROCK?

Volume 18 Number 1 Winter 2016

VALE STATOIL TERRAPURE CANADA FITTINGS & FLANGES, AND …EMERA’S CHRIS HUSKILSON

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AWARDS

OUR FIRST-EVER INDUSTRY EXCELLENCE AWARDSFEATURING A ROLL CALL OF HIGH-ACHIEVERS

Every industry wants to achieve excellence. But it’s never easy getting there. It requires extraordinary effort,

focus, determination and skill. However, companies across Atlantic Canada engaged in the oil and gas, mining and renewable energy sectors frequently achieve it.

Our inaugural Industry Excellence Awards program recognizes some of the companies, and individuals – like Emera Inc.’s president and CEO Chris Huskilson – who have stood out among their peers in the realms of resource development, health and safety, innovation and championing communities. Inside, you’ll read about their pursuit of excellence in industries where maintaining the status quo is not an option.

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Darren Zwicker, Terrapure Environmental’s vice-president of environmental solutions, says the company has one goal when it

comes to health and safety. “We want to make sure our employees go home safe every day.”

It’s that laser focus that has earned it a 2016 Industry Excellence Award in the health and safety category.

Its health and safety record is particularly impressive at its five branches in Atlantic Canada. For the past 24 months, Terrapure’s facilities there have had no injuries requiring employees to miss work. Zwicker says a key reason why the injury statistics are so low is the company’s robust health and safety culture. At its Sussex, New Brunswick branch, for example, all employees had to come up with a personal safety slogan and the slogans were put on a collage at the branch.

It might seem like a minor gesture, but Zwicker says it’s all about driving home the message that health and safety is everyone’s job. “We really try and focus our efforts on what we would call safety impressions – how many times can we touch an employee with something safety-related,” Zwicker says. “Safety is not something that can be prescribed from the top down. It’s something that has to come from the bottom up.”

“ Safety is not something that can be prescribed from the top down. It’s something that has to come from the bottom up.”

Darren Zwicker, VP Environmental Solutions

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