P&H is committed to an injury free workplace for our employees, customers, suppliers and business partners. Our leadership in this area starts from the top. I hold safety as a personal priority and we chart our course as a company through a very active Safety Leadership Council at my staff level. We are all focused on sending everyone at every office, manufacturing, warehousing, shop and customer site home safely each and every day. We want them to return home to their loved ones and enjoy life. From a moral perspective, putting safety foremost is the right thing to do.
From a business perspective, it's also the right thing to do. The more focus we put on safety, the lower our costs are and the better and more discipline we have, not only in the safety area. That discipline carries over into other areas of the company and other processes that drive our performance overall. Today, our safety performance and that of the mining industry is world class. At P&H no task is so important, no schedule is so urgent, that the job cannot be done safely.
As a company we are making significant investments to bring the best of safety practices to our global organization. Read about the many initiatives we've taken and the commitments we've made to instill an even greater safety focus and culture in our organization. And see how these programs are driving our safety results. Lastly, I urge you to make safety your personal priority, as we have.
Pat Bartling Vice President of Global Operations Executive sponsor of P&H Mining Equipment's safety initiative