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SafeUp® – Our Path to World Class Safety Performance

  • SafeUp® is Amentum’s versatile EHS program, designed to align with our EHS Principles of Excellence to reduce risk and improve our reliability. The program improves employee well-being, drives environmental sustainability, and positively impacts the communities we serve.
  • SafeUp® offers a tailored approach for each Amentum project, enabling continual improvement and growth towards becoming a high-reliability organization. It also ensures our safety performance expectations are applied across our diverse global operations.

SafeUp®

Industry Leading Results

  • Amentum’s SafeUp® program delivers industry-leading results, as evidenced by our Recordable Injury and Lost Workday Case Rates, which are significantly below industry averages.
  • Third-party recognition validates our commitment to EHS, with Amentum receiving accolades from clients, regulators, and professional organizations for delivering industry-leading results. We maintain corporate registration for ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 45001:2018, ensuring that employee health and safety, as well as environmental considerations, remain top priorities in our business operations.

Success Starts with Safety

Our EHS principles of excellence shape our organizational culture, reinforce leadership commitment, boost employee engagement, improve work planning, guide risk-based decision-making, and facilitate rigorous performance monitoring. These elements contribute to reducing risks and substantially enhancing our organization’s reliability. As a result, we consistently meet our commitments on time and on budget, while avoiding unforeseen and undesirable outcomes.

Amentum envisions a safer, smarter, cleaner world. That vision underpins our fierce commitment to environmental, health, and safety (EHS) excellence. Protecting our people, clients, and communities we serve and driving sustainable business practices is not just the right thing to do, it is essential to our success.

Amentum knows that “success starts with safety” because we have observed the correlation between excellence in safety and both improved financial performance and customer satisfaction.

Featured Sustainability Projects

Third-party recognition demonstrates to our employees and clients our commitment to EHS. Amentum is recognized by clients, regulators, and professional organizations for consistently delivering industry leading results. We have the proven leadership to ensure success in these challenging and rewarding pursuits.

Amentum is one of approximately 40 companies who are members of the National Safety Council’s exclusive Campbell Institute for our record of EHS excellence.

The National Safety Council has honored 67 of our projects with the prestigious Industry Leader Award since 2011, with 5 projects receiving the award in 2023.  These prestigious awards represent safety performance in the top 5% of industry. Other achievements from the National Safety Council include:

  • Occupational Excellence Achievement – 719 projects have received awards for having injury rates 50% below industry average.
  • Perfect Record – 527 projects have earned perfect record awards for completing 12 consecutive months without an injury or illness.
  • Million Work Hour – 138 projects have earned Million Hour awards for working million-hour increments without a recordable injury.
  • Safety Leadership – 135 projects have earned awards for working 5 consecutive years without an injury or illness that resulted in days away from work.
  • Superior Safety Performance – 51 projects have earned awards for working 10 consecutive years without an injury or illness that resulted in days away from work.

Amentum holds two international standards, ISO 14001:2015: Environmental Management Systems and ISO 45001:2018: Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems, related to the corporate management and administration of Amentum EHS processes for operational execution. These certifications represent alignment with two respected international standards, as well as validation of the effective implementation of our EHS management system across our operations.

Amentum currently employees over 1,000 employees who have achieved the Safety Trained Supervisor certification –the most of any organization. Safety may not be a primary duty for employees who achieve this certification, but their knowledge of safety practices ensures safer and healthier worksites. This added competency strengthens the safety foundation in any organization.

14 active and retired Amentum worksites have successfully achieved VPP Star through OSHA and/or the Department of Energy. Active sites include:

  • Savannah River Site Liquid Waste Disposition Project – Aiken, SC
  • Anniston Static Detonation Chamber – Anniston, AL
  • East Tennessee Technology Park Decontamination and Demolition Project – Oak Ridge, TN
  • Hanford Tank Operations Contract – Richland, WA
  • Pueblo Chemical Demilitarization Facility – Pueblo, CO

The SafeUp® Framework

The Principles of EHS Excellence

Lead EHS at all Levels

We execute a risk-based EHS program and foster an environment where everyone is a safety champion

Managers and supervisors execute our EHS program, safeguard employees, and foster an environment where everyone is a safety champion. We prevent incidents and injuries by using risk-informed, conservative decision making.

Empower Employees

Every employee shows care for each other by speaking up, embracing safety and actively engaging in safe work practices and EHS improvements.

We foster an environment where safety is embraced and acted upon by every employee. Employees actively engage in development of safe work practices and EHS improvements. Everyone shows care for people and have the courage to speak up regarding unsafe work practices.

Manage Operational Risk

We reduce risk through effective use of the hierarchy of controls and provide safe, healthy working conditions to prevent workplace incidents.

We recognize, evaluate, and manage risk to develop effective controls and provide safe and healthy working conditions to prevent incidents, injuries, illnesses, and environmental pollution. All EHS risks are reduced to levels as low as reasonably achievable.

Advance Organizational Learning

We strive for continual improvement & optimize performance through open communications, EHS expertise, and the creation of best practice and innovative EHS solutions.

We continually improve our EHS system through performance monitoring, sharing of lessons learned, and creating best practices. As an organization, we openly communicate EHS information, challenge the status quo, and develop innovative solutions to optimize performance.