Make Safety the Cornerstone of Your Culture
Smart organizations focus on designing and building safely, because doing so keeps projects on schedule and on budget—and because every worker deserves to come home safe every day. We're committed to an effective safety culture because it's the right thing to do for our clients, our projects and our people. As evidence that our approach and dedication to safety is working, we have consistently achieved experience modification, total recordable incident and lost workday incident rates much better than the industry average. That's why we're sharing ideas and resources to help make your projects and your people safer.
Smart safety planning is critical to project success. Detailed, modern safety plans—both company-wide and site-specific—should always be developed and continuously updated to achieve safety excellence. From there, build your safety culture with a two-pronged approach to safety. Emphasizing a behavioral focus brings conversations about safety front and center. Identify and highlight near-miss or good-catch moments where accidents were avoided. It might be tempting to sweep near-miss incidents under the rug, but it's actually crucial to bring them to light because they can prevent future accidents. In addition, maintaining a statistical focus provides an analytical backbone to your safety program. Regular audits of your projects, with multiple experts conducting onsite checks, maintain a constant evaluation of your safety plans so they can be optimized and improved.
And, a powerful tactic to improving safety is to get the construction team involved early in each project. That way, once the groundbreaking occurs, your team has already thought through how they're going to build the project safely. Crane placement, layout, how to erect something—it's all been thought out in advance. That's one of the reasons why we think collaborative delivery is such a powerful approach to critical projects. And, it's why we are excited about the potential of virtual design and construction technology to make projects more collaborative, more efficient, and most important of all, safer.


Safe thinking from our experts





