Advancing Our Culture of Safety

Safety

By Taylor Hovey, Safety Programs Manager

As our company continues to expand, remaining focused on our core values and culture of safety remains at the forefront of our growth. Nothing is more important to The Cianbro Companies than taking every step to ensure our team members return home in better condition than when they arrived at work. In this spirit, safety leadership from A/Z, Cianbro, R. C. Stevens, and Starcon came together for three days in July 2022 to discuss, improve, and combine our safety management systems. Combining the four safety management systems into a single system allows us to learn from each other’s best practices and improve the process. It also allows for superior trending to boost preventive safety measures. As a result of the safety leadership’s meeting, The Cianbro Companies have begun transitioning to ProCore for site safety auditing and injury management, which helps improve tracking of safety hazard recognition all the way to correction.

A second event that took place in 2022 was the return of the in-person Safety Specialist Professional Development, which didn’t take place in 2020 and 2021 due to COVID. In September, roughly 50 safety team members from Cianbro, A/Z, Starcon, and R. C. Stevens, gathered in Pittsfield, Maine, and split into two groups for a two-and-a-half-day education event. During the sessions, the teams focused on networking, sharing best practices, improving our safety systems, technical

Congratulations to Cianbro Corporation for achieving renewed acceptance into OSHA’s Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) Mobile Workforce for Region 1. The VPP recognizes employers who have implemented effective safety and health management system.

sessions, and developing interpersonal skills to provide a supportive, effective, safety-driven working environment.

A significant part of the safety specialist development was ensuring our team members have a solid foundation supporting the mental wellness of every team member. Cianbro remains focused and dedicated on being an industry leader in suicide prevention and the growing mental health crisis that exists in construction. With the rollout of the Cianbro-customized version of the Relaxx app, the construction industry now has another tool to help team members.

As we look forward to 2023, our safety teams remain excited about leveraging the strengths from all our safety programs and ideas. We thank all our team members for remaining dedicated and proactive in keeping our company one of the safest.