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Eureka has a safety committee that includes managers and front line staff across all departments. The safety committee meets on a monthly basis to identify and implement proactive safety measures and to review any situation where an injury has occurred as well as any safety issues and concerns raised by staff. A risk management consultant from our workers compensation insurance company attends our safety committee meetings to provide us with real time support and suggestions towards continuously improving our safety practices. Summarize your safety plans for MRF operations to protect workers and customers when in the plant. Eureka Recycling utilizes the practice of employing full-time and fully benefited employees in our MRF, which has limited the turnover of our staff. This allows for a fully trained and safety - aware staff to be operating the equipment and on the sorting lines in the facility at all times. The safety program described above includes all Eureka Recycling employees including our team in the MRF. Eureka Recycling has experienced very little loss -time accidents in our MRF operations since we opened in 2003, exceeding industry standards. Only pre -approved customers are permitted to bring recyclable material to Eureka Recycling. All customers are provided with a copy of scale policies and a site map that provide safety instructions including appropriate traffic speeds, traffic flow and how to tip/empty their trucks in a safe manner (including required PPE for the tip floor and safe distance required between vehicles). No more than four trucks are permitted to dump at one time and traffic to dumping space is directed by equipment operators on the tip floor to ensure the floor is safe before they dump. Equipment operators are instructed to leave at least 10 feet of space between their vehicles and other vehicles on the tip floor and report any unsafe behavior seen with either inbound trucks or other Eureka Recycling staff. Equipment operators all have a two-way radio they can use to alert scale staff and management staff in case of an emergency. Cameras on the tip floor allow managers to see what is happening in real time and review history in case there is need to investigate an incident. Cameras are regularly observed to ensure safe practices by both our staff and other parties. We have invested in significant training of our MRF managers and supervisors to identify hazards and near misses, and we review these both in daily MRF manager meetings and in monthly Safety Committee meetings in order to maintain an intense proactive focus on safety in the MRF. Have you had any OSHA — reportable accidents within the past three years in Minnesota? If so, summarize the individual events, and corrective actions taken. Yes - we did have one OSHA reportable injury within the past three years. It occurred on 7/23/2019, though the employee declined treatment at the time of the injury and did not seek medical care until 7/25/2019. The injury was the result of an employee tripping on uneven ground and hitting their head and body against the back of a car and the ground, causing some internal bruising and broken bones. This employee was admitted to the hospital on an inpatient basis, which is the reason we reported it to OSHA. Since then we have completed an assessment of the site where the incident occurred and taken steps to direct foot traffic away from that area, including removing the smoking table (became a non-smoking worksite) and adding signs announcing uneven ground where there is landscaping to promote water drainage. RFP for City of Roseville Recycling Services • D-7