Columbia knows and understands that the health and safety of our employees, clients and subcontractors is the key to success. All employees dispatched to environmental projects are certified to have received a minimum of 40 hours of Hazardous Waste Operations training in accordance with 29 CFR 1910.120.

Columbia has an ongoing commitment and expectation that safety be first in all day-to-day activities and projects. Continual efforts to improve upon our behavioral-based model are reviewed and discussed between management and employees. Our full-time Health & Safety Director and Project Managers, assist with encouraging employees to complete job safety audits, loss prevention observations, internal safety meetings, project specific safety requirements, and general housekeeping practices.

Each project manager is fully responsible for their projects and is given full authority to stop work when unsafe work practices are being used or observed. Columbia project managers have a fiscal and moral obligation to provide a safe environment and to investigate each accident to identify and implement corrective measures for future avoidance of reoccurrence.