Casella Resource Solutions

June 20, 2014

GUARDING FOR LIFE

• Headquartered in Rutland, VT

• Provide resource management services

to commercial and industrial customers

in 39 states

• Annual revenue of nearly $500 million

• 1,800 employees serving

200,000 customers

• In 2012 we recovered over 890,000 tons

of recyclables and organic materials

• Using landfill gas to generate enough

electricity for 15,000 homes annually

• Recent awards: Climate Leadership Award,

Natural Gas Vehicles for America

Achievement Award, Vermont Governor's

Award for Environmental Excellence

2 CASELLA RESOURCE SOLUTIONS ZERO-SORT RECYCLING • COLLECTION • ORGANICS • ENERGY • LANDFILLS

Resource Management Assets in the Northeast

Hauling Facilities

Recycling Facilities

Organics Facilities

Landfills

Landfill Gas-to-Energy

Transfer Stations

3 CASELLA RESOURCE SOLUTIONS ZERO-SORT RECYCLING • COLLECTION • ORGANICS • ENERGY • LANDFILLS

Innovation

Single Stream Recycling Facilities CNG Refuse Fleets

Landfill Gas Power Plants Anaerobic Digesters for Food Waste

4 CASELLA RESOURCE SOLUTIONS ZERO-SORT RECYCLING • COLLECTION • ORGANICS • ENERGY • LANDFILLS

Safety

Partnering with Casella Safety provides access to a wide range of services/resources including:

• In-depth knowledge of OSHA and MSHA regulations, as well as other subject specific standards

• Industrial risk management

• Occupational safety and health program/training development

• Comprehensive facility hazard assessments/safety and compliance audits

• Community outreach training

• Excellent working relationship with regulatory agencies in multiple states

Department composition is incredibly diverse. Personnel committed to building a

world-class safety culture by setting the pace for safety and environmental compliance.

Staff accomplishments, activities and credentials

• Certified/approved trainers (OSHA, MSHA, NFPA, AHA)

• Active participants in American Society of Safety Engineers

• Actively participate in NFPA technical committees

• Guest instruction for state departments of labor, community colleges,

and municipalities

5 CASELLA RESOURCE SOLUTIONS ZERO-SORT RECYCLING • COLLECTION • ORGANICS • ENERGY • LANDFILLS

What we know…..

• Herbert William Heinrich

– Behavior Based Safety Model (1931)

– Travelers Insurance

– Evaluated hundreds of thousands of accidents

and injuries

Root of the Solution

• Findings of Heindrichs study:

–88% of all accidents are a result of human

error

–10% of all accident and injuries are equipment

failure

– 2% of all accidents are unresolved as to cause

How we start…..

• Start at the top….senior leaders must commit time and resources ($$$$$)

• Ensure active participation at all levels to ensure buy in and gain synergy

• Consistency in “message and action” are imperative to a successful plan

Casella Recycling Issues

• Define behaviors to target

– Important to form a cross functional group

– Focus is important

– Inclusion is key

• Observe to collect baseline data

– Observer and subject should remain anonymous

• Intervene to influence target behaviors

– Review data collected for patterns and corrective action

• Test

– Conduct good follow up testing with result sharing and celebration

– Goodall (1999)

Mission Guarding

• Identify Issues

– Guarding of hazards is difficult

– Equipment not always designed initially for our application…press manufacturer and installers

– Maintenance of guards is expensive and time consuming

– Guarding is an afterthought to installation or a failure

– Guarding must be removed or opened to affect good maintenance or general cleaning

Evolution of Effective Safety

Manager

driven and

owned

Management

initiated and

quota driven

Management

driven with

increasing

employee

involvement/

feedback

Employee-led

& Strong

management

support

Safety

Partnership,

Comprehensive

coverage

BEGINNING DEVELOPING PERFORMING HIGH PERFORM EXCELLING

Mission Guarding

• Define Behaviors:

– Improper installations

• Wrong type of guarding or not adequate

• Easily compromised guards

• Inhibits productivity or introduces other hazards such

as jams, friction fires or damage to belts/drives

– Process management for maintenance or

cleaning results in guarding failure

Guarding Failures

• Inadequate means

• Improper maintenance

• Design failure

• Employee recognition of

hazard

• “Pre” and “post

“operations checklists

• Unintended cosequence

Case Study

• Maine Facility

– Material processing plant for blending organic

material with bio-solids

– 7 Full time employees

– Injury free for 11 years

– Annual Turnover negligible

– Hours worked <50 per week

– Average age of employees 49

Employee Training

• Training in all OSHA required topics with

testing and observation

• Management and supervision no change in

over 10 years

• Inspections of facility only minor issues

identified by inspections

• Trained on the job by co-workers

Accident Information

• Occurrence:

– 1:45 pm

– Performing adjustment of belt on up-feed conveyor

– Working alone

– No communication prior to performing service

– Guarding was chain and signage

– Performed task over 50 times previous

– Junior employee on site

– No previous injuries

Guarding Prior to Injury

• Limiting access using

chains and signs

• Signs stated

“Authorized Personnel

Only”

• No list of who

“Authorized Personnel”

were

• Procedures not

adequate

Location of incident

Employee was adjusting tail pulley to “track” the belt while the belt

was operational. The roller that is in this picture is the one that the

employee was cleaning debris off of when he was pulled into the

pinch-point.

Guarding After Incident

Solutions, Solutions, Solutions

• Policy change

• New Training

Requirements

• Authorized Personnel

List Updated

• Training for all

personnel

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME

AND EFFORTS IN KEEPING

OUR EMPLOYEES SAFE!!!!!

CASELLA RESOURCE SOLUTIONS