In all our operations around the world, we are driven by the same commitment of leading by example in the relationships we have with all our stakeholders.
Whether in terms of business ethics or human rights, we require all our team members to comply fully with all applicable regulations, which are further reinforced by the commitments contained in our Group Ethics and Behaviour Charter, Anti-Corruption Code of Conduct and Manifesto.
The success, development and individual and collective long-term future of our companies depends on strict compliance with shared good practices and commitments that are binding on all of us with no exception.
Our Culture and Commitment to Safety for Everyone
Safety is our number one priority, ahead of anything else. This culture of safety is embedded in the way we work every day. From our project sites to our administrative offices, the goal is to keep our employees, sub-contractors, and clients as safe as possible and work to maintain an injury-free workplace, wherever they may be. Here at Menard Canada, there is no such thing as a “minor” injury; we continually strive to prevent all workplace injuries, no matter what they may be.
The Home Safe™ Commitment
We are committed at all levels to ensuring that every one of our employees stays safe and free of injury, ensuring that they get home safely to their loved ones at the end of every workday. Our goal every day is to have zero-incident workplaces where individuals not only feel safe but are safe. We work to achieve all these goals by:
Safety is much more than creating safety documentation and procedures; it’s ingrained in what we do every day and helps to ensure that everyone goes home safely and injury-free. Safety doesn’t happen by chance; it takes a company that promotes individuals looking out for themselves and each other every day. Menard Canada is proud to say that we consider nothing that we do every day important enough to warrant injury to anyone who works for us or that we work with.
COR™ Certified
We are proud to be a COR™ certified company and work hard to ensure that we maintain the very highest safety standards for all our regional job sites and offices across Canada. As a safety-centric company, it’s our priority to constantly review and improve our safety policies for the betterment and safety of everyone who works for us and with us.
We invite other companies and individuals to help us in promoting a safer workplace for everyone.
Have questions about our Health and Safety Policies? Contact us anytime at info@menardcanada.ca
Lowering Environmental Impact with Ground Improvement
Ground Improvement is not only the most cost-effective and reliable approach for densifying and reinforcing soils, but it has also proven to be an environmentally positive approach for treating and improving poor soil sites. We believe in a Less is More as a core principle in the way we work, but also when it comes to the environment, always working to lessen our impact in all that we do.
Menard Canada’s ground improvement systems are designed to be environmentally sound alternatives to deep foundations and other approaches like destructive dig-and-replace methods that can negatively impact the surrounding environment.
Instead, ground improvement by Menard Canada offers you low-impact, highly effective techniques for lessening the environmental effects of development and construction-related activities, all while supporting, reinforcing, and strengthening site soils for a range of structures.
All of our ground improvement solutions are environmentally sound approaches that avoid the creation of excess soils or other types of spoils, resulting in a significantly lower carbon footprint.
At Menard Canada, we have always worked to do more with less.
This Less is More approach originated from our founder, Louis Ménard, who invented the Pressuremeter. The Pressuremeter was a ground-breaking, yet simple geotechnical testing tool used to assess soil characteristics. As a result, the Pressuremeter required far less complex laboratory work than was needed in the past, and that truly revolutionized the future of geotechnical testing.
It’s this Less is More spirit that our founder had that we proudly carry on in all that we do as a company that proudly bears his name, legacy, and principles. The Pressuremeter is only one example of Louis’s approach to finding simple approaches to complex geotechnical challenges. His legacy of innovation, combined with simplicity, has continued throughout the many years that Menard has been in business. It’s these principles that are deeply engrained in all that we do.
The introduction of highly effective yet elegantly simplistic techniques, such as our development of Dynamic Compaction, the Menard Vacuum™, and Controlled Modulus Columns (CMCs), all were born out of the same concept, that Less is More, with our three fundamental principles being:
- Use Fewer Materials & Resources
- Avoid Creating Excess Spoils
- Work to Simplify the Solution
Because of these guiding principles, we can proudly say Less is More Menard! To us, it’s all about finding the best, most straightforward solution to a problem while using fewer resources and creating less waste.
Menard Canada’s Environmental Policy
Menard Canada believes that we have an important duty to care for and safeguard the environment in which we operate. We identify environmental protection as one of our most important guiding principles and a key component of good business practices and operations. We are wholly committed to providing quality ground improvement solutions in a manner that ensures that we effectively minimize our impact on the environment as a whole, lowering our carbon footprint throughout all of our operations. We continue to operate within and above compliance with both Federal and Provincial environmental guidelines and will consistently work towards using environmental best practices in all we do. We will:
- Incorporate environmental concerns and impacts into all of our decision-making activities
- Promote environmental awareness among all of our employees and will always encourage them to work in an environmentally responsible way
- Train, educate, and inform all of our employees about any potential environmental issues that may affect their work
- Reduce waste by initiating robust recycling programs, both within our offices and on-site
- Purchase environmentally responsible products that have been selected based on specific criteria, including, toxicity, durability, use of recycled materials, reduced energy /water consumption, and ability to be recycled or refilled
We encourage all of our business partners and members of the wider construction community to join us in this effort. If you have any questions about our environmental policies or want to learn more about how ground improvement can help lower the cost, risk, timelines, and carbon footprint of your next foundation project, contact us anytime at info@menardcanada.ca
Promoting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Our Workplace
Menard Canada is dedicated to supporting equality, diversity, and inclusion amongst all of our employees and wholly eradicating illicit discrimination.
Our aim is for each one of our employees to feel respected and to be able to give their best in an environment that respects diversity amongst its team members. Menard Canada, whose business is providing ground improvement services and solutions, is also committed against any illicit discrimination of our customers or the general public.
