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.