Safety Culture – Driven by Values, Passion and Commitment

D&Z executive Ucciferro named chairman of the National Safety Council board of directors
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At Day & Zimmermann, our core values drive our culture – and safety is at the top of that list as our number one value.

Our people do not, and will not, compromise safety under any conditions, because they know the safety of all of our stakeholders – our customers, our employees, our partners and our public – is more important. Our customers benefit from our safety culture, as it often ensures a tight synergy with their safety culture and programs designed to protect the well-being of their stakeholders.

For us, safety is a passion and a commitment rather than a business priority. It is rooted in human value rather than business value – and our people know that. For more than five years we've tracked our employees' off-the-job injuries to measure the impact of our safety culture and safety training in their personal lives. Not something that many companies do.

Our safety passion and commitment has borne results. We have world-class safety performance despite the fact that much of our work is in high-risk businesses where we often do not directly control the worksite or day-to-day supervision of employees. 

Over the past nine years, we reduced:

• OSHA recordables by 56%
• Lost time accidents as reported to OSHA by 88%

These results are remarkable when you consider that we expend approximately 37 million hours per year on average in businesses where we:

• Manufacture large caliber ammunition and manage ammunition and chemical agent storage depots.
• Deliver power maintenance and modifications services through a union building trades workforce of tens of thousands of different craftsmen who work about ten weeks each year. 
• Augment our customers' workforces with thousands of employees who take their day-to-day work direction from others, in environments controlled by others.
• Employ thousands of security services officers who work in commercial security and paramilitary officers who work at DOE facilities and routinely participate in "force-on-force" training exercises.