Security leaders offer innovative data, planning practices

It is the week of construction safety.

In the United States, industry leaders host stops, give toolbox talks and increase training as a means of highlighting good practices and ensuring that each employee at the workplace will reach home safely.

If you ask the environmental heads, health and safety that work for main players in construction, they will tell you that safety is not a competition. Sharing internships and collaborating in events such as Safety Week is part of the way the industry improves the overall well -being of workforce.

Here, leaders share their best practices with the immersion of construction to make a difference in the safety and health of workers. Continue reading to see the proud programs.

Dave Hulverson, Granite Construction, Vice President of Safety, Health, Environment and Quality: The most significant security practice we have promulgated in recent years is our Stcky initiative. Stchy means “Things that can kill you“, And is an improvement in the training that teaches our employees about the highest risk risks at the construction sites and how to recognize and mitigate these dangers. This initiative has been a change in play to improve the safety and health of workers.

In addition, we recently implemented the Granite Guard Security Initiative to standardize our hand and electric tools throughout the company. This has helped reduce the most common injuries, though less severe, we can spend more time focused on removing Stcky.

Thibodeaux Tricia, Vice President of Health, Safety and Environment: Some construction operations have a disproportionately high number of precursors for fatalities or severe injuries. After evaluating the data of the industry and our own incident history, Fluoro identified nine operations carried out widely throughout the company, which are at the highest risk of mortality or severe injuries.

The experts in the field of the entire organization collaborated to improve work practices, training and risk assessments for what we call critical life operations.

Fluor developed the safest program of options to educate workers on their personal tolerance for risk and their impact on decision -making. This initiative emphasizes the importance of making more secure decisions and recognizing possible risks before they become problems.

Given the multitude of decisions made daily, each with the error potential, effective decision -making is crucial to keep our culture safer. People must choose to work safely and their safe options are provided for both personal and management participation.

The safer options emphasize individual learning, self -knowledge, investment and personal growth and work contributions, allowing construction professionals to make informed and safe decisions.

Lonnie Schock, member of the Environmental and Security and Leadership Safety Team: DPR: Like others in the construction industry, we have acknowledged that things that cause high -frequency injuries, such as manual and soft tissue injuries, are not the same that cause severe incidents and impact. In this context, DPR has expanded our safety approach to be more than all this and equip our teams with the right tools and resources to better anticipate the risks, so they can be managed effectively and keep people safe.

As part of this, we have begun to explore the use of new emerging technologies such as automatic learning and AI, to analyze data and predict possible workplace risks so that we can act more efficiently and proactively before something is wrong.

Todd Friis, Vice President of Clayco, President of Risk Management: We trust our data very much to inform the path we make with our security program. For example, we see that many injuries occur before the day, so we emphasized “The Golden Hour”. It is that moment, the first thing in the morning, where our field supervisors spend much more time outside the office and in the field.

Over the years, we have seen that they are more and more workers who are new in the construction labor that do not have much understanding of construction safety. For the future, we try to help increase this knowledge among our subcontractors, demanding all workers who have at least one certification of construction OSHA 10 when they work in our jobs.

Although this requirement technically does not come into force until July 1 of this year, we are already working with our commercial partners to help their employees complete this training now. It is our feeling that making this a part of our process will help increase consciousness and knowledge of security, not only in Clayco jobs, but as they move to work for other contractors, help improve safety throughout the industry.

Bryan Kingsbury, Corporate Security Director Consigli Construction: Beyond making basic updates or improvements to PPE or teams, such as requires helmets with a barbed belt, we have also identified opportunities where we can take advantage of our internal virtual design and construction team to create safer and more sustainable jobs. As technology and IA continue to develop, we have been intentional to keep us innovative in our safety approach so that we can be in front of the curve and make sure that our teams are equipped with state-of-the-art resources.

Using drones flying through our VDC team, we can make virtual safety walks for higher and higher risk areas, such as ceilings and perimeters of the place, which allows us to inspect and improve areas that are not easily accessible. We are also using a new AI tool to analyze the images taken from our jobs, identify security risks and make corrective recommendations efficiently and efficiently. With AI and VDC VDC solutions, problems with access to the site, PPE, storage of materials and much more can be identified rapidly and solve some of the consigns..

Jeff Palombo, Robins and Morton Vice President of Security Operations: Our focus on security management is based on our operational philosophy of human performance, which recognizes the complexity of our operating system and its influence on behavior, including human error. We understand that errors expose the weaknesses of the system, not personal failures and guilt does not improve performance: solving the process.

It is noteworthy that workers are not the problem and, on the other hand, are part of the solution, leadership, culture, security system design and defenses of a project can prosper and succeed.

To support this approach, we have developed tools, defenses, and consequence control strategies that provide our labor force and flexibility for safely work in a constantly evolving environment. These include:

• Task Planning Meetings.
• Post-tasks reviews.
• Performance coaching.
• Attention to members of the work authority.
• Team forums.