Safety Champion Program

Safety Champions are recognized for practical behaviours customers can feel in the way work is planned, communicated and performed. The focus is not title or position level. It is visible action that helps prevent risk and strengthen the team around them. These behaviours include promoting FELT Leadership, following safety requirements, reporting hazards and near misses, supporting corrective actions, encouraging coworkers to pause when conditions change and helping new or transferred personnel understand site expectations.

Strong safety performance is built through repeated actions at the point of work. Procedures, training and site requirements are essential, but they become stronger when employees actively apply them in real operating conditions. Safety Champions help close the gap between expectation and execution. They keep hazard awareness active, encourage teammates to pause when conditions change and reinforce the idea that speaking up is part of doing the job correctly. For customers, this matters because safety culture is not only measured after an incident. It is visible in how crews prepare, communicate, respond to changing conditions and protect the people and operations around them.

Safety Champions support safer execution by staying alert to conditions that can affect the task, the team or the surrounding facility environment. This may include recognizing unsafe conditions, reporting hazards, supporting risk assessment awareness, encouraging PPE compliance, helping new or transferred personnel understand expectations and reinforcing stop-work responsibility when the job cannot continue safely. The impact is practical across routine work, shutdowns, embedded facility programs, industrial cleaning, skilled trades, field services, mechanical support, environmental response and customer-specific operating environments.

Recognition matters because the behaviours a company celebrates are the behaviours people repeat. The Safety Champion Program gives TEAM a structured way to recognize positive safety actions before they are lost in the pace of daily operations. Visible recognition, including items such as a Safety Champion pin, certificate, badge recognition or team-wide acknowledgement, helps turn strong safety behaviours into examples other teams can follow. The focus is not the reward itself. It is the behaviour behind the recognition: protecting the team, reporting hazards, supporting solutions and improving the work environment.

The Safety Champion Program supports TEAM’s broader FELT Leadership approach by making safety leadership personal, visible and connected to daily work. FELT Leadership is reinforced when employees take ownership of safe work where the task is happening. The program also connects naturally to the TEAM Safety Badge. The badge gives employees a visible reminder of training readiness, risk awareness, PPE, inspected equipment and stop-work responsibility. The Safety Champion Program recognizes the people who put those expectations into action.

Examples include hazard reporting, PPE discipline, corrective action support, mentoring, stop-work responsibility, peer-to-peer coaching and helping teams verify conditions before work continues.

No. It strengthens supervisor oversight by reinforcing safety ownership at the employee and peer level.

It gives customers another visible proof point that TEAM employees are engaged in safety, accountable to each other and active in protecting the site.

The badge sets visible readiness expectations. The Safety Champion Program recognizes the employees who put those expectations into action.