contractor safety awards
The 2009 CURT CISE Contractor Awards were presented by CURT Safety Committee Chair Art Goehry, Director of Project Management, Johnson & Johnson.
The following are the winning Constructor CISE Awards for 2009:
NAICS Code 236: General Building Contractors
Category 2 (>500K to < or = 2MM man hours/year):
Bancroft Construction Company
Bancroft Construction Company is a 34-year-old, full-service Construction Management, General Contracting and Design-Build firm, based in Wilmington, DE. Over the past three years, Bancroft has averaged over 500,000 man hours of field labor and achieved excellent safety measures in a Lost Time Case Rate of zero and Recordable rate of 0.31. Included in their safety process is a Construction Hazard Review that analyzes safety concerns before construction starts, which is integrated into all bid packages and provided to subcontractors prior to the start of construction. This, along with the integration of safety policies and programs into their annual review of their five-year Strategic Plan has enabled Bancroft to establish a proven safety culture that focuses and strives towards zero incidents.
NAICS 237: Heavy Construction Contractors
Category 3 (>2MM man hours/year):
S&B Engineers and Constructors, Ltd.
Houston based, S&B Engineers and Constructors, Ltd. provide comprehensive services for the construction of refining, petrochemical, power, pulp and paper facilities. These services include engineering, procurement, construction and construction management. S&B's safety policy is summarized in their mission statement: "We make NO compromise with respect to Morality, Ethics, or Safety." In order to prevent worker complacency, S&B shows safety videos to workers during lunch breaks. These videos include training, management safety messages, findings from safety inspections and safety celebrations. Since implementing this innovative lunchtime video program, S&B has realized a marked improvement in their accident rates.
Category 3 (>2MM man hours/year):
Teton Industrial Construction, Inc. (a PCL Company)
Teton Industrial Construction, Inc. is a Georgia-based, diversified, full-service general contractor that concentrates in the power generation, refining, chemical, pulp and paper industries. At Teton, safety is everyone's responsibility, and no person is considered too important to attend safety meetings or to be seen in the field. Rather than simply delegating safety responsibilities to safety professionals, senior management assume direct responsibility—for planning, implementing and monitoring safety programs. Clear responsibilities are assigned by senior management to each layer of Teton's organization from district manager to tradesperson. Senior management then actively measures and monitors the results of their safety planning with routine reviews and audits.
NAICS 238: Special Trade Contractors
Category 1 (< or = to 500K man hours/year):
Canyon Concrete, Inc. (Honorable Mention)
Canyon Concrete, Inc., is a firm of five full-time employees specializing in industrial and commercial concrete construction. Although a small company, over their 25-year history they have developed and committed to safety processes and practices comparable to that of best-in-class of substantially larger firms. Their safety statistics for this year's application are the best achievable. Zero recordables and lost time incidents for the past three years shows their commitment and results to the deployment of this commitment to safety. As part of their core value commitment to safety, not only do they conduct annual safety training of their employees, but have taken it a step further by offering safety training to local companies in their rural community. Thirteen OSHA 30-hour classes have been conducted to date.
Category 2 (>500K to 2MM man hours/year):
IES Industrial, Inc.
IES Industrial, Inc. is a national industrial, electrical and instrumentation contractor that works throughout the continental United States of America, and is based in Houston, TX. IES Industrial works in industries such as petro-chemical refining, pulp and paper, saw mill, power generation and distribution, PDC fabrication and wind energy. IES Industrial has developed an employee-based safety culture that compliments their safety program. Their policies include an "Employee Bill of Rights" outlining expectations and employee's ability to exercise Stop Work Authority. They also have developed a Safety Observation Awareness and Recognition (SOAR) process for employees where they observe one another for at-risk behaviors to prevent incidents. IES Industrial has incorporated an internal safety enterprise system to track all aspects of their safety management process.
Category 2 (>500K to 2MM man hours/year):
Nooter Construction Company
Nooter Construction is a complete capital project, major equipment erection, pressure vessel repair and turnaround/outage contractor for US heavy industrial clients including refining, chemical, power, steel and many others. Nooter Construction prides itself on their outstanding safety performance, welding ability, rigging experience and quality of work. Nooter's policy and leadership program includes the implementation of a PACT program (Positive, Awareness, Coaching, and Teamwork) beginning with an employee pledge for total commitment to safety as the first priority. In addition, they utilize a "Go Forward Plan" with four major cornerstones including management commitment and employee involvement, hazard analysis, hazard prevention and control, and training. Their safety and health program manual has been accepted at 100% with the National Construction Management Services group (NCMS), ISNetworld, and other third party evaluators. Nooter's management has developed a safety culture to "blame the system and not the person", which promotes open dialog to address safety improvements.
