New collaboration designed to enhance fall protection, confined space safety and rescue solutions
In February, SPI Health and Safety announced that it had become the majority partner of Rubicon Safety. A month on, both companies are as excited as ever about the partnership and the benefits it can create for worker safety.
“It wasn’t a partnership based on finance for me, it was based on culture,” says Lorraine Kearsey-Carter, President, Rubicon Safety. Kearsey-Carter started the company around 10 years ago. The organization focuses its expertise on fall protection, confined space and rescue solutions.
Lorraine Kearsey-Carter
Kearsey-Carter says that she was impressed with SPI’s team. "We saw the dynamic team that they had, but also their passion for health and safety. What is interesting to me is to work with other great leaders and see how they do things. SPI is very well respected, if they’re not already then they try to be best in class. The leadership team is phenomenal.”
“This partnership means a lot to us because by bringing our strengths together, we’ll be able to touch more companies. By touching more companies, we’ll touch more workers. That’s our objective and our purpose, to keep workers safe,” says Kim Levesque, President, SPI Health & Safety. The organization offers a number of training programs in a wide variety of areas such as electrical safety, prevention management and industrial hygiene.
Both women say that when they spoke, the connection was almost instant. This new partnership offers both organizations more expertise and more resources.
“We’re really excited about the partnership with SPI. We’re a small company with big clients and big expectations for us,” says Kearsey-Carter. “We’re thrilled to have hundreds more coworkers to collaborate with.”
So what can we expect of this new partnership?
“For the first year, we want to get to know each other. There are so many synergies that we see,” says Levesque – a sentiment echoed by Kearsey-Carter. “For me it’s about finding those synergies and finding what we can do to provide the best in class for our clients.”
Despite it only being a month since the start of the partnership, the companies are already looking at cross-training workers to further their safety skillset. Each organization brings something unique to the table, and exchanging knowledge with each other is a great first step. It’s also a testament to how collaboration can improve and enhance worker safety.
Kim Levesque
Lorraine says that she was excited before the deal, and is still excited a month on – perhaps even more so.
And speaking of synergies, both women are keen to highlight each organization’s commitment to worker wellbeing, which will only expand through their partnership.
Levesque says that SPI is strongly focused on its purpose, which is the wellbeing of people. Firstly, the wellbeing of workers by “keeping them safe but offering them an environment where they can grow.” Secondly, the wellbeing of customers to make sure that they keep their workers safe. And thirdly, the wellbeing of the community. “We invest a large percentage of our profits to helping local, national and international communities.”
“Every worker that we interact with, through consulting, training or product sales, we don’t take lightly those decisions when they call us for help. Their lives depend on the information that we give them,” says Kearsey-Carter.
