Our Goal

Our goal is to inspire, support, and enable our metals industry members to continuously improve the Safety and Health performance of the entire Metals Industry and achieve Excellence in Safety and Health.

Our Partners

We achieve our mission through the leadership of our Health and Safety Committee and with the help of important partners.

MSCI Safety Committee

Our Health and Safety Committee consists of Health and Safety Professionals and Senior Leaders from across the Metals Industry all of whom bring their extensive expertise, experience, commitment and passion for improving Safety Performance across the Metals Industry.  The team meets several times each year and hosts an annual Safety Summit to facilitate networking, sharing of ideas and improvement in Safety Performance in the Metals Industry.

Optimum Safety Management / UpVantage Strategies

The extraordinary safety leadership services and solutions you’ve been using from Optimum Safety Management will now be provided to you by UpVantage Strategies, LLC. The same great leadership, now with even more resources and solutions to support your mission.

As a national leader in organizational effectiveness, UpVantage provides a host of services targeted at helping you Commit to a change, Assess where you are on your journey, and Educate your team for maximum impact.

UpVantage Strategies Safety Helpline & Resources

Answering Urgent Safety Questions

Metals Service Center Institute member UpVantage Strategies sponsors exclusive MSCI member access to a designated resource to help members improve their workplace safety. Answers to questions and expert advice will be available for MSCI members Monday through Friday, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. Internet inquiries will receive responses within 24 hours.

Safety Course Catalog

To help our member companies go beyond compliance and set the foundation for cultural change, MSCI and UpVantage Strategies are delivering live online Zero Harm Safety Leadership cohorts that will develop middle to upper managers and front-line supervisors as safety leaders.

Facilitators will lead each workshop live online through a classroom complete with professional audio/visual equipment, whiteboard technology, and multi-screen viewing for a seamless experience.

Contact Ann Zastrow at azastrow@msci.org or (847) 485-3004 to discuss a custom program for teams of 10 or more.

Upcoming Safety Events & Courses

Annual Safety Survey

Sixty-four MSCI member companies submitted detailed survey responses for this year’s study. These firms represented more than 2,000 locations, 150,000 employees, and 300,000,000 labor hours.

Open to both service centers and mills, the Metals Service Center Institute’s Safety Survey is designed to provide easy-to-understand metals industry safety benchmarks for MSCI members. The survey is intended to track company trends to address safety concerns, as well as benchmarking against peer organizations.

This comprehensive survey is the only source for metals industry safety data beyond basic OSHA and Canadian government data.

Annual Safety Innovation and Improvement Award

Safety starts with the culture of an organization and is an ongoing journey that never ends. It takes perseverance, employee buy-in from the top down and bottom up, as well as continuous improvement from the entire organization to ensure that every metals industry employee arrives home from work exactly as they left. The MSCI Safety Innovation and Culture Improvement Award will recognize and acknowledge metals organizations that seek new and innovative approaches in their efforts to drive safety improvement towards a zero-harm environment.

In the interest of engagement and driving recognition of our members’ efforts, MSCI is pleased to announce expansion of the award program.  Beginning in 2021, members may submit award nominations in either or both of the following two distinct categories.

Safety Innovation Award:

Across the industry, the best and brightest are engaging their minds around how to make each process or work practice safer.  Has your workplace developed a best practice?  How about a new gadget that keeps your employees out of harms way? Or, maybe you have implemented a tool, process, or device that has dramatically reduced occupational risk or exposure.  We want to hear about it, and we want you to have a platform to share it with the industry so we can all benefit.  Entries to this award can be from Management, Supervisory, or even better yet, Front-Line Workers.  Drive deeper engagement with your teams by getting them the recognition they deserve when they think outside the box and improve the working environment.

Culture Improvement Award:

We would all say, “we want to improve our safety culture.”  However, if you have tried it, you know it is much easier to say than to accomplish.  It takes hard work, dedication, and a consistent commitment to effort over the long haul.  Have you had success with your culture?  Maybe you have implemented a new initiative that has really engaged your team.  Or, have you participated in something extraordinary to educate your team and can now demonstrate results.  We would love to hear about it.

To qualify, describe your approach following the details in the application, and submit your application to Briana Dee at bdee@msci.org.  Contact Briana at the email provided or (847) 485-3021 with questions.

Application deadline is Monday, July 15, 2024.

Safety Helpline Terms and Conditions (May 10, 2024)

Exclusion of Warranties, Limitation of Liability and Risk Allocation.

The information provided to members and nonmembers of the Metals Service Center Institute on the Safety Helpline is provided by the professionals of UpVantage. The safety information provided by the Safety Helpline services by UpVantage is purely advisory and of a general nature and cannot substitute for the advice of a professional who can apply it to the particular circumstances of an individual situation or case within a company. The MSCI takes no responsibility for the quality of work or accuracy of representations made by the professionals who staff the helpline and bear no responsibility for any disputes that may arise between the UpVantage professionals and helpline users. The Metals Service Center Institute and UpVantage are not responsible for any losses, injuries or damages User may suffer relating to information provided by the Safety Helpline. Contact and or use of the Safety Helpline shall be deemed as waiver of any right of contribution. User agrees to indemnify, defend and hold harmless UpVantage and UpVantage’s employees, representative, agents, successors, and assigns (collectively the “Indemnified Parties”), and shall pay any and all losses, liabilities, damages, costs and expenses (including attorney’s fees) incurred by the Indemnified Parties as a result of User’s operation of its business or User’s use of the Work Product, including, without limitation, losses, liabilities, damages, costs and expenses arising or resulting from safety and/or health violations by User except in each case to the extent caused by UpVantage’s (i) breach of this Agreement or (ii) negligence or willful misconduct.