Safety
Zero Injuries in an integral part of our company’s culture
A safe and healthy project environment protects all team members, minimizes risk to you as the customer, and creates mutually beneficial cost savings. Our Zero Injuries program results in:
- Safe and healthy team members
- Team member empowerment to identify and correct unsafe conditions immediately
- A higher motivated and productive work force
- Best quality workmanship
- Better business results
Our program consists of seven best practices:
Management commitment for safety is essential to convey to others in the firm that costs, schedule, and quality do not take priority over safety. This can be demonstrated in a variety of ways. The circumstances may dictate those means that are perhaps most feasible. The commitment must be sincere, and it must somehow be conveyed to the worker level. Without this clear communication, safety performance will very likely be compromised.
Staffing for safety is essential on large projects. It requires full-time safety personnel to ensure that the safety needs of the projects are being satisfied. Additional safety personnel will be required when the number of workers is increased. These safety personnel form the core of the training program on the project and they will provide the day-to-day safety support for the field personnel.
Safety education is a major component of jobsite safety. The training and education of workers should begin with formal jobsite orientation of every worker. As is true in most settings, the learning process is never completed. As time goes by, and as jobsite conditions change, it is necessary to provide additional training to workers. This training tends to be focused on the needs of individuals, whether they are field workers, supervisors, or managers.
Worker involvement is perhaps the area in which the most significant changes have taken place in recent years. This is essentially based on the view that workers are not just a valuable resource to be protected, but also a resource that can contribute to achieving the goal of zero accidents. Such involvement can be achieved through several means, including observations of worker behavior, input through worker safety perception surveys, and by worker participation on safety committees.
Subcontract management implies that the safety agenda of the general contractor must extend beyond its own employees. If the safety program is to be effective it must involve the subcontractors, whereby they are included in the orientation training, the drug testing, the safety planning, etc.
Accident/incident investigations must be conducted diligently to identify the root causes. Near misses are now included in those events that are to be investigated. These near misses are to be regarded as inexpensive “wake-up calls” that may be instrumental and very valuable in avoiding costly injuries.
Drug and alcohol testing continues to reveal its importance to the achievement of good safety performance. Rehabilitation is currently not widely employed in the industry but may be an area to be given consideration in the future.
All parties are charged with the responsibility for conducting safe operations and for providing protection for all employees, the public, and all others who may come in contact with, or be exposed to, any project. RCG Enterprises, Inc. Challenges and entitles all of you to be SAFETY OFFICERS!