Page 9 - Tomlinson Times - Summer 2016

HEAlTH & SAfETY – CONT’D

coming soon!
tomlinson’s compliancE

officEr: CompLyIng WIth
tomlinson’s safety

CommerCIaL VehICLe

recognition program
operator regIStratIon

(CVor) guIdeLIneS
Safety is a Core Value at tomlinson. We all

strive to work safely, and ensure everyone

The Compliance Officer at Tomlinson has a safe place to work. the one desire

oversees the corporate compliance program, of all companies is to have zero lost

functioning as an independent and objective time injuries from workplace accidents.

body that reviews and evaluates commercial
employees should be recognized for their
motor vehicle issues and concerns within the
safety efforts and their actions to reduce
organization.
lost time injuries. at tomlinson, we would

They also ensure that senior management and all like to do just that! We will be implementing

employees are mindful of the rules and regulaions of the
regulatory agencies, company policies, and that established a new Safety recognition program.

procedures are understood and followed. They monitor daily
The Safety Recogniion Program is intended to
compliance and ensure that the appropriate resources are
available to invesigate and resolve safety issue as they arise.
recognize divisions within Tomlinson that meet milestone
The Compliance Oicer is relied upon to be a liaison between
ime periods with zero lost ime injuries. The program is
management and employees and they lead by example
through teaching, training and mentoring others to highlight based on the hours a division works and the number of

the company’s commitment to safety.
lost ime injuries that division has had during a set period

of ime.
Some of the training and aciviies the Compliance Oicer
would lead might include:
There are four diferent achievement levels – bronze,

silver, gold and plainum. The longer a division works lost
• In-Cab: remedial training-assessing, reevaluaing and
making recommendaions post collisions/incidents,
ime injury free, the higher the level they will achieve.
evaluaing pre-hires and report indings to management,
More details of the program will be sent out soon.
and giving refreshers to exising employees on the
Highway Traic Act and defensive driving techniques

• Spot Checks: conducts regular in-depth Commercial

Vehicle Safety Inspecions, reports all outcomes to With every lost time injury prevented, our

management and follows up on the upkeep
company as a whole benefits. Best of all,

• Skills On-Hand: assising and training exising employees our workers go home just as they were
on classiicaion drivers license upgrades, shows efecive
when they came to work that day and every
and eicient vehicle inspecion techniques
other day – that’s the highest achievement
• In-Class: provides training to meet regulatory Highway
level there is!
Traic Act standards under hours of service, vehicle
inspecion and cargo securement

The Compliance Oicer monitors commercial motor vehicle

leet safety and commercial driver compliance ensuring that

there is no conlict with the organizaional goals or the Ministry
of Transportaion CVOR Public guidelines.

- Richard Holmes, Tomlinson’s Compliance Oicer
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