Focus on Health & Safety

MARCOR’s Safety Beyond Compliance program is a comprehensive and measurable safety training, development, and monitoring initiative. It has been designed to reinforce good safety behavior and includes components to evaluate safety performance and track measurable safety goals. It also links employee recognition with outstanding achievement in the field of health and safety. The program is operated with the full endorsement of our executive management team, whose members are actively involved in its implementation and ongoing success.

About Our Safety Program

MARCOR provides a safe environment on the job site and in surrounding areas. Our health and safety compliance officer, in conjunction with our on-staff health and safety professionals, oversee all field operations. In addition, MARCOR senior-level officers, along with outside consultants, conduct independent assessments of job site health and safety issues. This monitoring program is intentionally designed to be independent of field operations.

All remediation and abatement projects follow guidelines set forth in our comprehensive health and safety plan. Supplemental, site-specific health and safety plans are developed to address work to be performed under each job order. Input from technical, operational, engineering, and managerial teams ensures that health and safety parameters are feasible and achievable for each project’s scope of work. The implementation and enforcement of these plans are the responsibility of the assigned health and safety officer. If a questionable or unclear situation arises, the officer is empowered to suspend all work activity associated with the concern until the situation is resolved.

Safety Standards and Beyond

MARCOR personnel maintain a safe and healthy work environment through continuing application of standard health and safety procedures, which comply with applicable provisions of OSHA regulations 29 CFR 1910 and 29 CFR 1926 as well as applicable state laws. All MARCOR field personnel (as well as our subcontractors and teaming partners) who perform hazardous waste and emergency response operations train for a minimum of 40 hours as specified by OSHA Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER) standards. At least one supervisor for each site receives an additional eight hours (minimum) of specialized training in hazardous waste supervision. All employees participate in regularly scheduled safety meetings.

Established protocols for protection and control are followed and enforced at each job site. These include the following: MARCOR Health and Safety Manual; OSHA and state equivalent regulations and guidelines; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) guidelines; American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) guidelines; Risk Assessment Guidelines from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of Transportation, U.S. Department of Labor, and similar, state agency guidelines.

Note: In many cases, MARCOR’s site-specific safety programs exceed regulatory requirements. The company’s outstanding safety record reflects a continuous dedication to excellence.