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 • Ongoing SAFETY EDUCATION to our individual supervisory personnel through the AGC
The AGC (Associated General Contractors of St. Louis) provides continuing education classes on First Aid/CPR. Competent person training on excavations, scaffold, fall protection, and confined space work. OSHA 10 Hour and 30 Hour training, and a number of other topics.
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• AGC SAFETY VAN visits to our larger job sites
A monthly visit at the site for all employees, and subcontractors present. Issues addressed range from basic safety issues to topical issues for upcoming procedures on that site.
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• HBD SAFETY MANUAL
We provide to each of our Superintendents a complete manual with all pertinent federal, state and local SAFETY regulations, and our company policies and procedures. Also provided to each Superintendent along with the manual is a current copy of the OSHA act to utilize as an on site reference.
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• An Aggressive back to work policy
Even though we strive for zero incidents, accidents do some times occur. When that happens HBD aggressively seeks to find duties that fit the restrictions of the injured workers to get them back to work without, or with limited, lost time. HBD is only as strong as our employees. Therefore we answer their commitment to HBD by HBD’s commitment to keeping them at work.
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• An Aggressive Drug and Alcohol / Substance Abuse Policy
Strict outlines for drug and alcohol testing are published and adhered to, whether pre-employment, post-accident, or random spot checking.
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• Weekly ON SITE SAFETY
Weekly outlines for all types of topics are sent to all field supervisors monthly. Typically Friday afternoon at 3PM the crews assemble to discuss the week’s topic and review any special issues they feel they need to address.
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• Fleet vehicle program including monitoring
HBD provides vehicles to our key field supervisory personnel. To insure proper use of vehicles we have established parameters for their use and have implemented monitoring of their use though an “800” number.
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• SAFETY AUDITS by HBD and our insurance carrier
HBD’s Safety Director and our insurance carrier’s site specialist randomly tour jobs to review in-practice procedures and suggest practices to improve performance.
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• Each and every employee is expected to cooperate with our achieving these goals.
Each employee is authorized and expected to stop work at any time when a work activity is being performed in an unsafe or improper manner. Our goals benefit both directly and indirectly each one of our lives. We must succeed and we will succeed.
We understand there is a financial cost to safety, but we believe this is offset not only by the savings in Workers' Compensation Insurance, but more importantly by attributing to positive employee morale. Accordingly, we must work together and we will achieve our safety goal.
We feel these programs keep us focused on SAFETY as a way of life, just like the focus we provide for production and quality.
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