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Culture of Safety

We endeavor every day to manufacture our products in the safest manner possible, which means prioritizing our team’s health, safety and wellbeing.

Across all facilities, we aim to create environments with zero work-related injuries or illnesses, as outlined in our Occupational Health and Safety Policy. Reaching this goal requires a constant focus on our health and safety programs and performance. It also means favoring proactive practices over reactive ones.

To this point, CMC’s Proactive Safety Program empowers everyone to report all incidents, call out potential safety issues and follow a reported issue through to resolution. We review incident reporting monthly and conduct regular health and safety drills as well as facility-wide meetings.

We augment our safety policies and practices with a data-driven approach using our global incident management system. This system also captures near-miss reporting to identify risk trends and allows us to develop corrective procedures to avoid potentially catastrophic issues before they happen.

Our collective emphasis on continuous improvement is embedded across our operations and is one of the first things we initiate when we acquire a new location. For example, in our Tensar Division, by implementing our Cardinal Safety Rules and adding safety managers to Tensar facilities, we have shown the Tensar team the correlation between safety and success, and CMC’s enduring commitment to their wellbeing.

At CMC, safety is our top concern. Our total recordable incident rates are among the lowest in the steel industry.

Our Performance

CMC achieves excellent health and safety performance by supporting a positive culture in reporting all risks and concerns. Our data indicates a high rate of near misses due to the large volume of reporting by our employees, which we identify as a best practice for preventing actual incidents. As a result of our employees’ engagement in our culture of safety, we have excellent incident reporting and a growing trend toward zero incidents. Every month, we celebrate outstanding performance with safety lunches at locations that have achieved milestones. CMC’s total recordable incident rates (TRIR) are consistently below the industry averages for recycling, mill and fabrication sites.

In 2023:

35 CMC facilities received the CRSI Excellence in Safety Award for achieving zero recordable injuries

8 locations received the CRSI Safety Achievement Award for having an incident rate at least 50% lower than the industry average

CMC 2023 Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR) by Category1

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Fabrication

CMC safety performance is compared to data from, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the Steel Manufacturers Association (SMA).

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In 2023, 114 of our facilities achieved zero incidents for one or multiple consecutive years.

CMC locations that had no recordable safety incidents in 2023 (multiple years are noted in parentheses).

 

  • CMC Construction Services Alexandria (12)
  • CMC Construction Services Rosenberg (11)
  • CMC Operations Admin (11)
  • CMC Recycling Bydgoszcz Poland (11)
  • CMC Recycling Independence (11)
  • CMC Construction Services Austin (10)
  • CMC Southern Post SC (10)
  • CMC Construction Services Sulphur (9)
  • CMC Construction Services Tulsa (9)
  • CMC Rebar Farmville – Detailing (9)
  • CMC Rebar Rzeszow Poland (9)
  • CMC Rebar Zyrardow Poland (9)
  • CMC Construction Services Dallas – Rental (8)
  • CMC Construction Services Houston – NW (8)
  • CMC Construction Services San Antonio (8)
  • CMC Rebar Lumberton (8)
  • CMC Recycling Gainesville (8)
  • CMC Recycling Seguin (8)
  • CMC Construction Services Laredo (7)
  • CMC Construction Services Texas City (7)
  • CMC Paving Solutions Palos Heights (7)
  • CMC Rebar Carolina – Sales (7)
  • CMC Rebar York – Resource Center Detailing (7)
  • CMC Recycling – Admin (7)
  • CMC Recycling Wellford (7)
  • CMC Construction Services Harlingen (6)
  • CMC Construction Services New Orleans (6)
  • CMC Rebar Waukesha – Detailing (6)
  • CMC Recycling Charlotte (6)
  • CMC Recycling Gdansk Poland (6)
  • CMC Recycling Lublin Poland (6)
  • CMC Recycling Olsztyn Poland (6)
  • CMC Recycling Waco (6)
  • CMC Recycling Zebiec Poland (6)
  • CMC Construction Services Houston – Business Services (5)
  • CMC Construction Services Lubbock (5)
  • CMC Cable (5)
  • CMC Rebar Spartanburg – Detailing (5)
  • CMC Rebar Waxahachie (5)
  • CMC Recycling Alexander City (5)
  • CMC Recycling Burlington (5)
  • CMC Recycling Clute (5)
  • CMC Recycling Koszalin Poland (5)
  • CMC Steel Mill Shared Services (5)
  • CMC Rebar Charlotte (4)
  • CMC Rebar Louisville – Detailing (4)
  • CMC Rebar Muncie (4)
  • CMC Rebar San Antonio – East (4)
  • CMC Rebar Savannah (4)
  • CMC Rebar St. Louis (4)
  • CMC Rebar Tampa – Sales Office (4)
  • CMC Rebar York (4)
  • CMC Recycling Lexington 2 (4)
  • CMC Recycling Shreveport (4)
  • CMC Construction Services Conroe (3)
  • CMC Rebar Gastonia (3)
  • CMC Rebar Napa (3)
  • CMC Rebar Orlando (3)
  • CMC Recycling American (3)
  • CMC Recycling Anderson (3)
  • CMC Recycling Augusta (3)
  • CMC Recycling Austin – North (3)
  • CMC Recycling San Antonio (3)
  • CMC Construction Services Pharr (2)
  • CMC GalvaBar (2)
  • CMC Rebar Cincinnati (2)
  • CMC Rebar Glendale (2)
  • CMC Rebar Houston – East (2)
  • CMC Rebar Houston – West (2)
  • CMC Rebar Nashville (2)
  • CMC Rebar Nashville – South (2)
  • CMC Rebar Ontario – Sales Office (2)
  • CMC Rebar San Antonio – West (2)
  • CMC Rebar San Diego – Sales Office (2)
  • CMC Recycling Baldwin (2)
  • CMC Recycling Birmingham (2)
  • CMC Recycling Fort Worth (2)
  • CMC Recycling Konin Poland (2)
  • CMC Recycling Midland (2)
  • CMC Recycling Springfield (2)
  • Birmingham Regional Office (1)
  • CMC Construction Services Bossier City (1)
  • CMC Construction Services Corpus Christi (1)
  • CMC Construction Services Ft. Worth (1)
  • CMC Construction Services Houston South – Rental (1)
  • CMC Construction Services San Antonio – West (1)
  • CMC Impact Metals Pell City (1)
  • CMC Rebar Birmingham (1)
  • CMC Cable Lawrenceville (1)
  • CMC Rebar Waxahachie – Coating (1)
  • CMC Rebar Columbia (1)
  • CMC Rebar Farmersville (1)
  • CMC Rebar Fredericksburg (1)
  • CMC Rebar Fresno (1)
  • CMC Rebar Kankakee (1)
  • CMC Rebar Louisville (1)
  • CMC Rebar Reno (1)
  • CMC Recycling Austin (1)
  • CMC Recycling Beaumont (1)
  • CMC Recycling Chattanooga (1)
  • CMC Recycling Chrzanow Poland (1)
  • CMC Recycling Crossville (1)
  • CMC Recycling Florence (1)
  • CMC Recycling Joplin (1)
  • CMC Recycling Lexington (1)
  • CMC Recycling Lufkin (1)
  • CMC Recycling Odessa (1)
  • CMC Recycling Orlando (1)
  • CMC Recycling Raczki Poland (1)
  • CMC Recycling San Antonio – East (1)
  • CMC Recycling Spartanburg – Asheville Hwy. (1)
  • CMC Recycling Tampa (1)
  • CMC Recycling Tulsa (1)
  • CMC Steel Arkansas (1)