The safety of all employees is a primary concern to IMC Potash. An employee-driven, behavior-based system incorporating observation and posaive feedback is one innovative process used at IMC Potash to increase safety awareness. Daily toc•l•box meetings, monthly safety meetings, quarterly area inspections, supervisor safely tours, a personal safety plan program , pre• operation equipment check lists, and quart erly incentive award
program s are also pan of the ov'!raJI saft-ty program. Ar. 8-hour, off-site annual refresher course is given once a year w al1 employees The result of these activities is a 1999 MSHA
reportable-mcident rate of 2 31, compared to the nationwide rare of 7.46. Working over one million man-hours without a lost•time accident has been achieved several times in the recen t history 0f the mine.