LIVING OUR MISSION LEADING THE FUTURE
INDUSTRY LEADING
SAFETY AND QUALITY
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or ABS, safety excellence is both an annual goal and an endless pursuit. In our long safety tradition, each year’s successes form the foundation of the next year’s achievements, fueling the voyage of continuous self-improvement that has made ABS a global Health, Safety, Quality and Environmental (HSQE) leader. ABS maintained this leadership through 2017, recording zero work-related lost-time incidents (LTIs) and a corresponding lost-time incident rate (LTIR) of 0.00 — a combination that represents a significant milestone in the organization’s continuing journey of safety excellence.
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY PERFORMANCE The ABS ongoing safety excellence program incorporates strong occupational health and safety processes and policies, including its Stop Work Obligation rule authorizing all employees to intervene if safety is in question in any aspect of their work. ABS continues to increase engagement in leading safety behaviors, including timely reporting of potential incidents or hazards and documenting near misses.
• ABS LTIR of 0.00 can rightly be called a spectacular achievement.
• ABS total recordable injury rate (TRIR) of 0.28 remained very low year-on-year.
• ABS employees continued to make good use
of the global reporting system to capture unsafe conditions, unsafe behaviors, near misses, and work-related injuries or illnesses.
• ABS maintained its Occupational Health
and Safety Assessment Series (OHSAS) 18001 certificate with external audits performed by the British Standards Institute (BSI).
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| ANNUAL REVIEW 2017 | ABS
“A world-class safety culture requires care, attention and consistent actions to drive safety excellence, positive behavior and beneficial change. I am proud to see these values passionately put into practice each day by our employees worldwide.” CHRISTOPHER J. WIERNICKI CHAIRMAN, PRESIDENT AND CEO ABS
QUALITY PERFORMANCE In 2017, ABS continued high-quality service delivery to our global client base. ABS maintained its leading position on overall Port State Control (PSC) performance. Notably in 2017, the Tokyo Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) recorded no deficiencies for which ABS was found responsible — a first since Tokyo MOU began assessing responsibility to Recognized Organizations (RO) in 2003.
