Safety • Community • Environment
Safety Is the Standard
Timberline Drilling maintains rigorous standards, ongoing training, and a company-wide commitment to safe, responsible operations.
Every employee. Every shift. Every project.
Safe, productive work begins long before a drill turns.
Timberline Drilling approaches safety as a shared responsibility that begins with planning and continues through mobilization, production, maintenance, and project completion.
We maintain strong systems for employee health, environmental stewardship, community relationships, hazard awareness, and accountability in the field.
How We Operate
A Safety Culture Built Into the Work
These commitments guide how Timberline plans, communicates, and performs across active mine sites, remote programs, and underground environments.
Plan Before Mobilization
Site conditions, hazards, access, equipment requirements, and project expectations are reviewed before crews and equipment arrive. Work areas are laid out to reduce unnecessary lifting, repetitive motion, awkward positioning, congestion, and line-of-fire exposure, with lighting, housekeeping, material placement, and mechanical handling considered from the start.
Train and Communicate
Employees receive ongoing training, clear expectations, and regular communication to support safe decisions in changing field conditions. Conditions in mining and drilling do not stay static, so when equipment, personnel, work areas, procedures, or scope change, our Management of Change process requires the crew to pause, reevaluate the work, confirm the necessary controls, and train to what is different.
Protect People and Equipment
Inspection, maintenance, accountability, and hazard controls help protect employees, property, production, and surrounding communities. We place particular emphasis on critical controls — the safeguards that prevent fatalities and serious injuries. Before high-risk work proceeds, those controls must be present, functional, effective, and understood by the people relying on them.
Review and Improve
Performance is evaluated throughout each project so teams can identify improvements and strengthen future operations. Inspections, task observations, training records, employee feedback, incident investigations, and corrective actions show us where our systems can improve. When a safer method is identified and validated, we standardize it across the operations where it applies.
Stop Work Authority
Stop-Work Authority for Every Employee
Every Timberline employee has both the authority and the responsibility to stop work when conditions change, a hazard is not adequately controlled, or something simply does not feel right. No job is so urgent that it cannot be paused to get it right.
People First
Prepared Equipment
Safety Performance
The Numbers Behind the Standard
We believe safety performance should be reported honestly and used as a tool for improvement, not decoration. These results come from the same contractor-prequalification systems our clients use to review us.
Source: Timberline’s Avetta performance dashboard and company work-hour records. Industry comparisons are the benchmarks shown by Avetta for the corresponding reporting category and year.
Credentials and Training
Qualified People, Verified Programs
Our commitment to our people is backed by recognized prequalification systems and in-house training capability.
Avetta and ISNetworld
Timberline maintains compliant contractor profiles that allow clients to review our safety performance, insurance, training, written programs, and regulatory compliance directly.
MSHA Part 48
We maintain an MSHA-approved 30 CFR Part 48 Training Plan covering surface and underground metal and nonmetal mining operations, delivered by MSHA-approved instructors. All Timberline management team members and project managers are certified MSHA instructors.
OSHA Outreach
Our OSHA-authorized Outreach trainers for Construction and General Industry deliver both 10-hour and 30-hour Outreach courses.
First Aid, CPR, and AED
National Safety Council–authorized instructors provide emergency-care training so our employees can respond with confidence when someone needs them.
We also provide ongoing company training on the subjects our work demands, including fall protection, defensive driving, energy isolation, hazard communication, equipment operation, and emergency response.
Recognition
Workplace Achievement
Recognized for a Commitment to Safety
Timberline Drilling has earned Diamond Achievement Recognition through the Minnesota Safety Council Governor’s Workplace Safety Awards. We value that recognition because it reflects something larger than an award: the daily commitment of our crews, supervisors, and support teams, and our willingness to work alongside our clients as one team.
Working With Us
What Clients Can Expect
Documented systems, applied consistently.
Our crews work across different projects, clients, and operating environments, but our fundamental expectations do not change. Standardized procedures, inspection criteria, training requirements, and critical controls give our people a dependable foundation wherever the work takes them. Site-specific client requirements are built into that foundation rather than layered on top of it.
Open communication.
Timely reporting, direct answers, and a willingness to raise concerns before they grow into larger problems.
Investigation that looks past the obvious.
When an event occurs, our focus is not limited to the immediate act. We look for failed or absent defenses, organizational factors, and practical lessons that strengthen operations.
Planning for how people actually work.
Fatigue, workload, communication, experience, work-area design, and changing conditions all shape decisions in the field. We plan for those realities so our people can make good decisions in demanding environments.
Participation, not just compliance.
We encourage our employees to ask questions, raise concerns, look out for their coworkers, and stop work when a control does not support safe execution.
Organizations & Associations
Connected to the Industry
Timberline participates in mining and industry organizations that support responsible operations, workforce development, and strong regional partnerships.
Our Commitments
Responsible From the Ground Up
Safety, community, and environmental responsibility are connected.
Strong safety performance is never the result of one policy, one person, or one department. It comes from capable people working together, systems that can be trusted, effective controls in the field, and leadership that listens and responds.
One team. Shared standards. Everyone home safely.Safe Operations. Reliable Results.
Connect with Timberline Drilling to discuss your project requirements, site conditions, safety expectations, and schedule.