The Construction Users Roundtable

owner safety awards

The 2009 CURT CISE Owner Awards were presented by CURT Safety Committee Chair Art Goehry, Director of Project Management, Johnson & Johnson.

The following are the winning Owner CISE Awards for 2009:

EXXONMOBIL CHEMICAL COMPANY—Baytown Eclipse Venture

This project recorded 2.7MM construction hours over 3 years. Project safety performance resulted in only 1 lost time and 1 recordable incident with a recordable incident rate of 0.15.

Key contributors included:

  • Implementing ExxonMobil "Nobody Gets Hurt" Program and by maintaining "Disney World Clean" throughout all project locations
  • Providing Outstanding Communications (Daily safety bursts, daily hot topics and weekly safety reports
  • Balancing consequence management for violating cardinal safety rules by providing a high level of care for workers
  • Use of Hazard Elimination Action Team

JANSSEN ORTHO LLC (a Johnson & Johnson Company)

This project recorded over 458,000 hours over a 3 year period. Project safety performance resulted in no lost time and 2 recordable incidents with a recordable incident rate of 0.89.

Key contributors included:

  • Incident and Injury Free Culture that includes a high percentage of staff with OSHA 30 hour training
  • Strong investigation program for near misses to identify root cause analysis
  • Detailed safety orientation and ongoing safety training program.
  • A stretch and flex solutions program incorporated into daily morning safety toolbox meetings

THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY - Box Elder, Utah

This project recorded 565,000 construction hours over an 18 month period. Project safety performance resulted in 0 recordable incidents with a recordable incident rate of 0.

Key contributors included:

  • Implementing the "Beyond Zero Safety Culture"
  • Completion of daily behavioral observation surveys by all project personnel and visitors
  • Implementation of "Safe Start" behavioral based training program

RASGAS Common Offplots Project

This project recorded over 45 million construction hours over a 3 year period. Project safety performance resulted in 1 lost time and 8 recordable incidents with a recordable incident rate of 0.05.

Key contributors included:

  • Management and craft level oversight of 31 nationalities with 11 spoken languages for the 8,000 plus labor force
  • Oversight of a support camp for 5,500 personnel in a area with a skill shortage of tier 1 subcontractors
  • Implementation of the Safety Leadership by Design C6 program
  • Collection, evaluation and implementation of 900,000 safety observations and the use of personal risk assessments for hazardous work tasks

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