At ASARCO Zero Harm is one of our core values. We believe that “Safety Is a Value” and not a priority. Values, unlike priorities that can change at a moment’s notice, are deeply held beliefs that guide our thinking and behaviors. This belief that “Safety Is a Value” moves us to demonstrate by our words and more importantly our actions that our main focus is to “Protect Our People & Business from Harm.”

To that end, we firmly believe that well-informed and trained employees are good employees who work effectively without incident or injury to themselves or others. To help foster this concept, ASARCO’ s focus is to protect its employees and others who work & visit our operations from injury through the establishment of various work and safety rules that are based on time-honored indus try standards & practices designed to ensure the Health & Safety of all employees, contractors, vendors & visitors.

ASARCO deems that health & safety is measured primarily by pro-active activities such as conducting risk assessments that identifies those workplace hazards that have the greatest potential to cause injury to our employees & contractors. Once these hazards are identified, the opportunity to implement control measures to either minimize or eliminate the hazards is provided

Other leading health & safety indicators that ASARCO personnel and contractors perform, are daily workplace examinations, designed to ensure a safe work environment prior to commencing job activities. Management personnel also conduct safe job observations or daily one on one empl oyee safety contacts.

Ultimately, our goal is Zero Unsafe Behaviors and Conditions.