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El Sobrante Landfill is a Class 3 regional disposal facility permitted to accept up to 10,000 tons per day, seven days per week. It employs approximately 40 full-time employees. Landfill operations are overseen by the California Integrated Waste Management Board, and the Riverside County Department of Environmental Health.
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We take safety seriously at the El Sobrante Landfill and are proud of our employees’ recent achievement of working 1,000 days without a loss-time accident or injury.
This is an amazing accomplishment for the 45 employees who have worked safely for more than 300,000 hours without suffering any injuries that would have prevented them from returning to work for at least one full shift. Landfill supervisor Craig Mitchell credits this record to the diligence of the landfill staff for being able to identify and avoid potentially unsafe situations and apply Waste Management’s safety program “Mission to Zero” (M2Z). The program mandates zero tolerance toward acts, conditions or behaviors that may cause unsafe conditions in or around the landfill.
As part of M2Z, before starting any new project, the El Sobrante team meets to put together a safety action plan. In addition, the team holds weekly safety meetings and also sets aside at least two weeks of the year as “Safety Excellence Weeks”. During these two weeks, there are daily safety meetings and workers are encouraged to choose a topic of their own to discuss. The landfill also has a safety committee comprised of five employees who represent the different areas of the landfill operation. The committee meets every month to review incidents and develop best practices to reduce or eliminate risk.
We encourage and reward our employees for their safe practices with various incentives such as monthly lunch parties and quarterly bonus incentives. Ultimately, however, the health, safety and welfare of our workers is enough of a reward. We are extremely proud of everyone involved for taking safety to a new level and we hope to end the year with no accidents or injuries.
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