The first thing to know about construction safety week is that this is a huge free training gift, motivational material and wisdom about the prevention of injuries and accidents. Ignoring -it’s like passing a valuable gift that offers your local department stores.
One thing you will find on the abundant construction security website is the Hensel Phelps Cares program, a new way to deal with employees.
Companies “can take whatever they want; it is their use,” says Michael Choutka, CEO of the Contractor-Construction and the President of this year’s construction Safety Week.
Hensel Phelps is one of the founding companies of Construction Security Week, which is now in its eleventh year. Choutka’s firm has evolved its focus on the security, adoption or adaptation of ideas of all the new theories and main approaches to the security of the last 30 years. Using them, according to him, it has allowed entrepreneurs to make measurable improvements that in turn have made construction sites safer.
“It is remarkable as the whole industry has gathered around creating a better working environment,” says Choutka, saying that in Hensel Phelps, “the rates of incidents we follow have significantly reduced over time,” with efforts continuing to “lead the rate to zero.”
Part of this is to use the energy wheel, which is to recognize and control the severity, mechanics, temperature or other sources or creators of high energy that are risks of more serious injuries.
Photo: Matt Good/Shoots for good; Courtesy of Hensel Phelps
Hensel Phelps’s recent efforts include proposing the program he calls faces, an acronym for craft consciousness, recognition and security commitment. In the program, all projects contractors send a representative to a committee that may be concerned with managers. The members of the Committee “meet and talk about their work and help lead to leadership on ways of improving working conditions,” says Choutka. “There are some really exciting innovations.” How to train the Committee and Good Practices for its success, they are explained in detail on the Web of Construction Safety Web.
On the main page of the website there is also a section that invites workers and managers to make eight promises, clicking on them, for eight consecutive weeks with a new promise revealed each week. The invitation of the promise is under the flag of “our plan, my part”, with the end of all the promises that make the viewer eligible to win a $ 1,000 prize. From the press time on April 22, more than 8,000 people and 100 companies have committed. Everything you do, make your own commitment to the safety of the workplace.
