January 2015
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tion, scheduling and budgets. This approach
has led to Techmation repeatedly qualifying
as one of Canada’s Best Managed Compa-
nies since 2012.
Another factor driving Techmation’s suc-
cess, Polsfut adds, is their exceptional safety
record. In spite of their many unique chal-
lenges, the company has gone 13 years with-
out a lost-time incident, and has experienced
declining total recordable incident frequen-
cy (TRIF) rates. Over the past three years in
particular, the overall TRIF average has been
0.49, while vehicles rates have declines from
0.90 in 2011 to 0.74 in 2013.
Health and Safety Manager ,Tyler Smith, has
been with Techmation since 2008, and was
promoted to his current role two years ago.
He says the company’s safety focus starts at
the top, with President Derek Polsfut, and
has been in place all along. In recent years,
the company has simply had to reinforce that
focus to keep up with expansion and growth.
“As we’ve grown throughout Western Cana-
da, we’ve experienced some challenges gath-
ering our leading indicators, which we use to
