Our safety program starts before an employee even steps foot on the job. During the initial employee hiring orientation our employees are required to watch our company safety video, which we produced to specifically address the critical safety requirements for our scopes of work. We believe showing our actual employees performing our work in the proper way is the best method to educate our employees on how to perform their work safely. Our safety video was produced in both English and Spanish to ensure we accommodate our diverse work force.

Safety training doesn’t stop after an employee’s initial orientation. Prior to a project starting our project team develops a Site Specific Safety Plan for each project including a detailed Job Hazard Analysis for each scope of work being performed. This safety plan is then used by the superintendent and site foreman as the starting point to communicate the safety requirements to our onsite employees. We also conduct weekly toolbox talks for all employees on the job, which are led by our foreman. Likewise our foreman and field superintendents use our safety video as a refresher before we perform certain scopes of work, as well as for retraining should one of our employees not be performing their job properly.

We work closely with our outside safety consultant, Innovative Risk Management, who monthly performs random jobsite inspections to ensure that our employees are following through on the safety training they have received, as well as serve as a constant resource to our employees as unique situations come up where we need to identify what is the best way to perform our work in a safe manner. We also use both our safety consultant and our other key vendors to provide needed certification training to our employees for such things as scaffolding, boom lifts, rigging, etc.

Finally, we periodically hold safety seminars for all foreman and key-men as a refresher on what they have learned previously and what new safety procedures we have developed for our scopes of work. The best part of these seminars is the interaction that takes place between our employees as they share lessons learned in the field during the different instructor lead sections.