CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY
Safe for Life
Ensuring the safety of people affected by our operations is Silver Standard's most fundamental responsibility. Our safety management program emphasizes effective safety leadership, a proactive approach to risk recognition, and the kind of engagement with our staff which encourages and rewards good judgment and safe behavior. Safety is a value championed across the entire Silver Standard organization, from our board of directors to the teams working on our job sites. Our goal is to instill in everyone an awareness of risk, and a sense of interconnectivity – that the decision-making of individuals always has consequences for others.
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Our risk management system addresses how people perceive risk, and emphasizes the development of our employees' competency to identify, understand, and manage it. The program's emphasis is on training, and continuously rewarding positive behaviors. We encourage our people to ask "what if" to ensure that risks are identified, and we foster an environment where risk can be discussed openly. Within this framework, employees in all parts of the organization are encouraged to accept accountability for each other's safety every day.
We are committed to the ongoing review and improvement of our safety management strategies as we grow.
Strategic Safety Leadership
Our management team establishes a culture of safety through education and motivation. The emphasis is on training and continuously rewarding positive behaviors – championing safety as a core value.
Awareness of Our Risks
Our risk management is proactive. Both dynamic as well as systematic, safety reporting is focused on current and leading indicators, not lagging indicators such as injuries. With this approach we can better anticipate and assess risks, and work to control them.
Focus on Our People
Our risk management system addresses how people perceive risk, so that our protocols and monitoring processes can be more effectively aligned to our activities. We strive to improve the competency of our people to identify, understand and manage risk.
Emphasis on Balance
We encourage our people to ask “What if….?” to ensure that risks are identified and discussed, and we empower them to take individual responsibility and accept accountability for safety every day. Safety is an integral part of our business activities.