The Senior Vice President, Administration has operational responsibility for company-wide employment, labor-management relations and management, and corporate training and development.

The Vice President, Safety, Health and Environment has responsibility for the company's occupational health and safety system. The COO heads a Senior Safety Leadership Team of seven senior managers that provides leadership in fostering a culture that reduces exposure to and strives to eliminate risk in the workplace.

Management Systems

PotashCorp uses a variety of management processes to ensure that its employment and workplace safety commitments are implemented effectively.

Occupational Health and Safety

The management approach to occupational health and safety includes:

• Training on process hazards, health and safety, emergency procedures and safe work practices is conducted at least annually.
• Hazard control strategies give priority to control at or near the source through elimination, substitution, isolation and/or effective local ventilation.
• Health and safety (including ergonomic considerations) are part of company criteria for selecting materials, tools and equipment for purchase.
• Accident investigations and corrective actions are completed as soon as possible and, in all cases, corrective action is taken within one year.
• Periodic health and safety audits are performed to validate the effectiveness of the company's health and safety initiatives. These include annual Key Procedure Audits at each site, an Organizational Culture Diagnostic Instrument at each location every two years, an annual sustainability review at each site and a yearly general health and safety audit at all Canadian operations.

Accident Prevention

PotashCorp uses a disciplined safety system that is based on best practices and the Behavioral Accident Prevention Process (BAPP®).

The company ensures that all employees and contractors are well-informed, well-trained, engaged and committed to its safety and health improvement processes.

A Senior Safety Leadership Team is building awareness among employees and contractors of the importance of reducing risky behaviors that cause accidents.

Each facility creates an annual Safety Action Plan to address measurable performance in behavior-based safety, key procedures, contractor safety and organizational culture.