matterscrbi.ca/storage/29/company matters december 2017.pdfher company’s road preservation...

December 2017 Issue 15

IN THIS ISSUE

Quick! Winter is here: it’s time to hibernate! Better yet, let’s make sure you are prepared to enjoy this wonderful season that lasts half a year. Snow-covered ground and dark mornings make for imperfect conditions when driving. Remember to put an emergency kit in your vehicle and to leave extra time to get to your destination. These are some of the easiest things you can control in winter to assist you in arriving safely.

Our snowplows will be out across the province, so help them do their jobs safely. Driving beside, passing, or crowding them puts the drivers and plow operators at risk. The best spot to be is

Winter is Here behind the snow plow: let them clear the way. If there is room, the plows will pull off to let traffic pass at safe intervals.

This winter, remember to stop and think before you start a task! Train your brain to recognize the hazards and spot the positives on site will help you and your co-workers stay safe. We are all responsible for safety and we should hold each other accountable for our actions. Speak up if you see something and listen to the warning signs around you. We all want to grab that hot cup of jo and put our feet up with our families at the end of the day!

We are wishing you a Safe and Happy Holiday season!

A Safety Perspective: 6 Questions with ACP

Page 2

Tis the Season for Stress: A Guide to Stress Management

Page 3

End of the Season at Canadian Road Builders

Page 5

Company Matters

Brought to you by

The Canadian Road Builders News Team

SAFETY NEWS Issue 15

A Safety Perspective: 6 Questions with ACP Applied Products Via: FieldRelay.com

Here at Field Relay, we’re lucky to serve companies that value safety culture and innovation as much as we do. From time to time, we’ll be featuring some of those companies and their safety managers on our blog, to find out what they do to create a culture of safety and the tools they use to help them achieve those goals.

We recently spoke to Sam Dehod, safety manager at ACP Applied Products, about her company’s road preservation services, her commitment to getting employees home safe every night and her belief in communication.

About ACP Applied Products

As a leader in road preservation and inno-vation, ACP offers services and product applications to help keep critical infrastruc-ture in good operating order. Their services include asphalt milling, chip seals, gravel seals, FiberMat, microsurfacing, fog seals, crack treatment and cold in-place recy-cling.

As the safety manager at ACP, Sam skillful-ly stays ahead in an ever-evolving business. She proactively monitors regulatory chang-es and keeps her team informed, and works to develop a foundation for long-term growth and sustainability in a chang-ing market.

Here is what Sam had to say about safety at ACP.

What are the top three priorities for safety at ACP?

Ensuring employees arrive home safely each and every day is top priority.

Transparency – we strive to operate in such a way that it is easy for each other to see what actions and solutions are being performed across the company.

Two-way communication – We need our employees to have a voice and feel comfort-able coming to safety to report incidents and ask for advice.

What steps do you take to get your em-ployees invested in workplace safety?

We have multiple safety committees that allow our employees to voice their concern. These committees not only give the employ-ee a voice, but control over safety on the job.

What’s your best advice for inspiring a culture of safety within your team?

Give your team a voice. When they know their viewpoints matter, they flourish. And as a manager, remember to be a resource and not the safety police so that your team knows they are trusted.

What advice would you give to new safety leaders?

Small steps will ensure you get there. Trying to change the world over night will only

Field Relay helps companies access their safety activities,

practices and procedures on the jobsite and in the field.

Imagine your safety manual online and completely

searchable by keyword.

Manage and record your toolbox meetings, field level hazard

assessments, near misses, incident reports and SDSs (MSDSs).

All on your mobile device.

Hello, paperless jobsite.

What is Field Relay?

cause more stress and fighting.

How has Field Relay impacted your busi-ness?

Field Relay has saved us countless hours with our foreman being able to access information online with ease. It has decreased the cost/impact on the environment with the reduction of printing materials, and helps keep us in compliance. It has also given us a better, real-time view on our multiple job sites spread out over the provinces.

How has Field Relay helped you to achieve specific safety goals?

Field Relay has made it easier to give our em-ployees a voice. It has helped engage the younger generation, who are all about tech-nology. Ease of access has allowed us to in-crease our near misses reporting, which has given us better view of what hazards are out on our job sites. This has allowed our safety team to push for more engineering controls in the field by having the data to back us up. It also allows our foremen to manage their crews better by being able to access employee certifications at their fingertips. Field Relay has strengthened the communication of inci-dents and hazards within the company as they are instantly shared when reported through the program.

Great work, Sam!

If you’d like to tell us about your organiza-tion’s safety culture and how you use Field Relay, drop us a line. You could be our next featured company!


FAST FACTS

Stress is one of the main causes of

insomnia

Your blood vessels contract when you

are stressed

Ancient Aztecs chewed resin gum, potentially reducing stress

Cocoa has been known to reduce

stress levels

One side-effect of stress is a higher

incidence of blood clots

Constant stress increases your chance of having diabetes and heart disease

Tis the Season for Stress By: Sam Dehod @ Safety Division

Here are 10 simple tips to help reduce stress levels in your life.

1. Indulge in physical activity. Incorpo-rating some physical activity into your daily routine can help metabolize excessive stress hormones and im-prove your quality of sleep.

2. Get more sleep. Make your room a sanctuary you can use to escape the world and take a break. Remove dis-tractions from the bed room and take some time to unwind before hitting the pillow.

3. Try relaxation techniques. There are multiple techniques you can find online to try. Try a different one each day till you find the one that fits for you. A very simple technique is to focus on your breathing: count to ten as you breathe in then control your breath to stretch 8 counts on the way out.

4. Talking to someone can work by either distracting you from your stress or helping to release some built-up tension.

5. Keeping a diary can help you deter-mine exactly what is causing your stress. Note down the date, time, and place were you felt stressed and rate it

from one to ten then write down how you dealt with it and how you could better manage it in the future.

6. Manage your time by setting up rou-tines and sticking to them. Maybe one hour before bed you plug your phone in and don’t touch it until morning. Set your clothes out the night before to help reduce the stress of figuring out what to wear the next day.

7. Learn to say “no.” Having too much to do and not enough time is the larg-est stressor. Saying “no” can be a struggle but it is self-created. Practice saying phrases like “I cannot commit to this as I have other priorities at the moment” or “Now is not a good time”.

8. Using an ATM only once will help control spending. Pull out your allotted budget and don’t be tempted to charge it: leave the plastic at home.

9. Don’t be too serious. Remember to laugh. Carry around a silly picture or rhyme to help yourself crack a smile when you feel your blood starting to heat up.

10. Use optimistic statements to help the brain trick the body into tranquility. Mind over mood really can do won-ders.

Financial stress is considered to be the

largest cause of stress across the developed world


Safety is focusing more on performance

based stats to determine what need to be

done to improve the safety culture of our

organization. Moving forward we will be

featuring foremen/divisions for their com-

mitment to safety based on information

sharing with their crew/safety.

Leaders in Safety By: Safety Division @ CRB

# of Near Miss Reports

Aug Sep Oct Nov

LRM 13 2 4 0

ACP 2 0 3 2

AHSL 3 3 1 3

Colasphalt 0 0 1 0

Gecan 0 0 0 0

Safety Meet ing Leaders

Division August September October November

ACP Leader

Christina Zwanenburg

2 Meetings


3 Meetings

Lucas Moeller

2 Meetings -

ACP Runner Up

Morgan/Kenny

1 Meeting

Morgan Luciak

1 Meeting


1 Meeting -

AHSL Shops Leader

Lacombe

6 Meetings

Wetaskiwin, Caroline,

Rimbey, Red Deer,

Lacombe, Innisfail

5 Meetings

Wetaskiwin, Ponoka,

Warburg, Caroline, Red

Deer, Lacombe,

Innisfail, Crossfield,

Olds, Beiseker

5 Meetings

ALL SHOPS

4 Meetings

AHSL Shops Runner Up

Wetaskawin, Ponoka,

Warburg, Beiseker

5 Meetings

Ponoka, Warburg, RMH,

Crossfield, Olds,

Beiseker

4 Meetings

Rimbey, Red Deer,

Lacombe, Innisfail

4 Meetings

Mechanics/

Office

1 Meeting

LRM Foremen

Simon Stuehler

20 Meetings

Josh Keller

9 Meetings

Kyle Zurbyk

4 Meetings

Manufacturing

1 Meeting

LRM Runner Up

Kyle Zurbyk

5 Meetings

Simon Stuehler

5 Meetings

Josue Moreno

3 Meetings -


The last few months have been busy at Canadian Road Builders! From Service Awards to soccer tournaments, our employees have been very busy. Our annual Christmas party raised $1,800 for the Acheson Food Bank and the Colasphalt Diamondbacks placed third in the annual Step Up To The Plate Slo-Pitch tournament where they raised $3,015 for the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation. What a great way to end another successful season!

End of the Season at CRB


HR Corner

P A T H W A Y S

A NEW SOFTWARE CLOSER TO EMPLOYEES

People are the pillars of every organization, and great business results start with great

people.

Starting in 2018, Colas Canada will roll out a new Human Resource Information System

(HRIS) to collect, store and help us leverage information about our employees so that

we can continue to deliver great business results company-wide.

The new system is called Pathways and it is currently being used at Colas USA. Path-

ways will provide information for employees, people managers and Human Resources

departments that can be used throughout employees’ work life with the Colas group of

companies.

Pathways includes seven different modules, which will be rolled out as follows:

Phase 1 (2018) Employee Central, Recruiting, and On-boarding

Phase 2 (2018) Performance and Goals Management

Phase 3 (2019) Succession Planning (career paths) & Training and Develop-

ment tracking (learning management system)

Phase 4 (2019) Compensation and Benefits (annual planning process)

We will begin the Pathways implementation within three to four months of the final

JDE roll-out that is being led by Sante Pulice’s team.

With Pathways, employees will be better able to drive their careers by having access

and populating their employee profile, work with their manager to identify and man-

age performance goals, and use the online training and development tool in support of

their continued growth and development. Pathways will also help people managers

and Human Resources departments to analyze data and trends, as well as support em-

ployees in their career management and development.

More information about Pathways will follow in the weeks ahead. Stay tuned!

—Francine Charette

Director, Human Resources

Colas Canada

Employee Updates on the

CRB Web Portal

We’ve been testing this year our new online section to share information about upcom-

ing events, pictures, job posting and more! To find out more, check out

C R B I . c a / p o s t s

CONGRATULATIONS!

Christine Marleau (AHSL)

Ryan McDonald (ACP)

For making it to the Runner Finals in Paris, France in February 2018!

Bring home the

gold medals!

Welcome to the team!

Daniel Muench Accounts Payable @ LRM

Welcome also to all our new field operations

employees within all our divisions!

Now Hiring

Keep an eye out for our job postings on websites like Kijiji, Indeed, LinkedIn. Here are our current opening:

AHSL is looking for:

Snowplow & Tandem Axle Gravel Trucks

operators with Class 1 or Class 3 DL for

the winter season

Contact HR for more detailed information!


Upcoming Events Curling Funspiel

It’s that time of year again! Canadian Road Builders is once again hosting the annual

Curling Funspiel for CRB employees and their friends and family!

Participants must be at least twelve years old. For more information, contact Sam

Where

Shamrock Curling Club

9330 80 Ave

Edmonton

T6C 0T9

When

March 10, 2018

8:00 am to 6:00 pm

Send us your stories!

Here at Company Matters, we love to

hear about what everyone in the Canadi-

an Road Builders family is doing. If you

and your crew have been working tire-

lessly on a project and would like to share

your experiences and photos with the

rest of the company, let us know! We are

looking to expand the scope of Company

Matters to cover broader topics in order

to better disseminate information

throughout the company and we need

your help. We know you work hard and

are excited to share your accomplish-

ments with co-workers who might other-

wise never hear about it.

If you’d like something published in the

next issue of Company Matters or if you

have any suggestions concerning what

could be included in the future, feel free

to drop us a line. We’re always looking

for new ideas and are open to sugges-

tions!

Shoot us an email at:

[email protected]

or

[email protected]

Zone 4, 1-26228

Township Road 530A

Acheson, Alberta

If there’s anything you’d like to see in the next edition or if you’d like to contribute, send an email to [email protected]

using the subject Safety News

Safety News

Sam Dehod Writer/Design

Mikael Raheem Editor-in-Chief

Zone 4, 1-26228

Township Road 530A

Acheson, Alberta

Safety News

Sam Dehod Writer/Design

Mikael Raheem Editor-in-Chief

CRB News Team

[email protected]

Company Matters

Sam Dehod

Writer/Design Mikael Raheem

Editor-in-Chief

[email protected]

matterscrbi.ca/storage/29/company matters december 2017.pdfher company’s road preservation...

Documents