Contractor Alliance for Pipeline Safety Mission and Vision Statements:

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Contractor Alliance for Pipeline Safety Mission
and Vision Statements

• Contractor Alliance for Pipeline Safety (CAPS)
  exists to identify and articulate the
  safety-related needs of the contractor community
  and to partner with The Dow Chemical Companys
  Gulf Coast Pipeline organization to jointly
  improve contractor safety performance.
• The goal is to provide all contractor companies
  doing business with Dows Gulf Coast Pipeline a
  forum that allows adequate sharing of EHS
  purposes, expectations, strategies, incentives,
  and results of the community of contractors
  working at the Dow Gulf Coast Pipeline site.
• In return, members are asked to provide ongoing
  commitment to CAPS goals and philosophy.
• As a result, the expectation is that safety
  performance with Dow Chemical's Gulf Coast
  Pipeline organization will continue to improve.
• CAPS is an enabling organization whereas
  contractors embrace the concept that through the
  use of new and creative approaches to safety,
  coupled with consistent application of proven
  existing processes, committed contractors working
  together can make safety happen.
• CAPS Goals and ActionsCAPS will involve all
  labor providers that work in Dow Gulf Coast
  Pipeline.
• The CAPS organization will be directed by a
  chairman and associate chairman on a yearly
  basis, elected by the membership..
• CAPS expectations will be communicated to all Dow
  Gulf Coast Pipeline labor providers.
• CAPS will support the training and auditing of
  the STAC process (Safe Task Analysis Card).
• CAPS will support Dow Chemicals sharing monthly
  with the membership the quality of their
  employees STAC participation.
• CAPS will develop committees to research and
  recommend to the organization certain actions in
  areas of safety performance that will eliminate
  accidents and incidents (committees may include
  actions concerning repeaters, at-risk
  workers, motor vehicles, and safety processes,
  such as hand safety, use of knives, drug
  screening, etc.)