Following much anticipation, commitment and hard work, the winners of the AGC/Willis Construction Safety Excellence Awards (CSEA) were unveiled at AGC’s 94th Annual Convention last week in Palm Springs, Calif. Sixty-five construction firms advanced to this final selection round from the initial judging that took place in January.

At the safety awards breakfast, Paul Becker, chairman construction practice, Willis, applauded the level of passion, commitment and sharing that is demonstrated by applicants and judges in this competition, encouraging others to participate and, by doing so, improving their safety program.

Improvement is indeed a beneficial side effect of the CSEA program as noted by participants and judges alike. Even by filling out the initial application, a company has already done something good for its program, according to one participant.

The 65 finalists presented before a panel of five judges, who reviewed each safety program for employee and management involvement, new and innovative programs, procedures and resources used to promote safety. Once first, second and third place winners were determined, each category first-place winners were judged to determine the "Best of the Best,” or the grand award winner. Opp Construction of Grand Forks, N.D. won that recognition in the category of Municipal & Utility, 100-001 - 300,000 work hours.

AGC wishes to thank all the participating companies, the initial and final judges, and Willis. Together, they form the CSEA program, which betters the industry by improving companies’ safety programs and helping to keep construction employees safe.

Grand Award Winner:
Division: Municipal & Utility

Opp Construction

Grand Forks, ND

100,001 – 300,000

First Place CSEA winners:

Company	City, State	Category
Division: Highway & Transportation
Mowat Construction Company	Woodinville, WA	Under 100,000
Guy F. Atkinson Construction	Renton, WA	100,001 – 300,000
The Great Lakes Construction Company	Hinckley, OH	300,001 – 700,000
Ralph L. Wadsworth Construction	Draper, UT	700,001 – 1 million
Sundt Construction Company	Tempe, AZ	Over 1 million
Division: Municipal & Utility
Orion Construction	Vista, CA	Under 100,000
Opp Construction	Grand Forks, ND	100,001 – 300,000
W.M. Lyles Company	Bakersfield, CA	300,001 – 700,000
Division: Building
Colantonio, Inc.	Holliston, MA	Under 100,000
A.A. Boos & Sons, Inc.	Oregon, OH	100,001 – 250,000
Corna Kokosing Construction Company	Westerville, OH	250,001 – 450,000
BN Builders, Inc.	Seattle, WA	450,001 – 650,000
Grunley Construction Company, Inc.	Rockville, MD	650,001 – 850,000
Greenberry Industrial	Vancouver, WA	850,001 – 1.25 million
Tellepsen	Houston, TX	1,250,001 – 4 million
Clark Construction Group	Bethesda, MD	Over 4 million
Division: Federal & Heavy
Nova Group, Inc.	Napa, CA	Under 100,000
Healy Tibbitts Builders, Inc.	Alea, HI	100,001 – 300,000
Herzog Contracting Corporation	St. Joseph, MO	300,001 – 700,000
The Beaver Excavating Company	Canton, OH	700,001 – 1 million
Wanzek Construction, Inc.	Fargo, ND	Over 1 million
Division: Construction Management
Clark Construction Company	Lansing, MI	Under 500,000
Gilbane Building Company	Providence, RI	500,000+
Division: Specialty
Holes Incorporated	Houston, TX	Under 100,000
Sicklesteel Cranes, Inc.	Mount Vernon, WA	100,001 – 300,000
MMC Contractors	Kansas City, MO	300,001 – 500,000
Fiore & Sons, Inc.	Denver, CO	500,001 – 700,000
Dynalectric Company	San Diego, CA	700,001 – 1 million
Rosendin Electric, Inc.	San Jose, CA	Over 1 million

Second place CSEA winners:

Company	City, State	Category
Division: Highway & Transportation
Mountain States Constructors	Albuquerque, NM	100,001 – 300,000
Granite Construction Company	Tucson, AZ	300,001 – 700,000
J.D. Abrams	Austin, TX	Over 1 million
Division: Municipal & Utility
Erickson-Hall Construction Company	Escondido, CA	100,001 – 300,000
Division: Building
Rock City Construction	Franklin, TN	Under 100,000
Unger Construction Company	Sacramento, CA	100,001 – 250,000
R&H Construction Company	Portland, OR	250,001 – 450,000
GH Phipps Construction Companies	Greenwood Village, CO	450,001 – 650,000
Satterfield & Pontikes Construction, Inc.	Houston, TX	650,001 – 850,000
Crossland Construction Company, Inc.	Columbus, KS	1,250,001 – 4 million
Division: Federal & Heavy
Advanced American Construction, Inc.	Portland, OR	100,001 – 300,000
Rummel Construction Company	Scottsdale, AZ	300,001 – 700,000
J.F. White Contracting Company	Framingham, MA	700,001 – 1 million
Cajun Constructors, Inc.	Baton Rouge, LA	Over 1 million
Division: Construction Management
RQ Construction	Carlsbad, CA	Under 500,000
Walbridge	Detroit, MI	500,000+
Division: Specialty
Trisco Systems, Inc.	Lima, OH	Under 100,000
Hart Engineering Corporation	Cumberland, RI	100,001 – 300,000
B.T. Mancini Company, Inc.	Milpitas, CA	300,001 – 500,000
TP Mechanical Contractors	Cincinnati, OH	500,001 – 700,000
SKMES, Inc.	Knoxville, TN	700,001 – 1 million
Cupertino Electric	San Jose, CA	Over 1 million

Third place CSEA winners include:

Company	City, State	Category
Division: Municipal & Utility
Slayden Construction Group	Stayton, OR	100,001 – 300,000
Division: Building
Haren-Laughlin Construction Company	Lenexa, KS	Under 100,000
Charles Pankow Builders – Hawaii Division	Honolulu, HI	100,001 – 250,000
Messer Construction Company	Cincinnati, OH	1,250,001 – 4 million
Division: Federal & Heavy
Reyes Construction, Inc.	Pomona, CA	100,001 – 300,000
Shook Construction Company	Dayton, OH	300,001 – 700,000
Shimmick Construction Company, Inc.	Oakland, CA	700,001 – 1 million
Division: Construction Management
George W. Auch Company	Pontiac, MI	Under 500,000
MWH Constructors, Inc.	Broomfield, CO	500,000+
Division: Specialty
Metropolitan Glass, Inc.	Denver, CO	100,001 – 300,000
Cobra Building Envelope Contractors, Inc.	Spokane, WA	300,001 – 500,000
Baker Electric, Inc.	Escondido, CA	500,001 – 700,000
McKinney Drilling Company	Delmont, PA	700,001 – 1 million
P1 Group, Inc.	Lenexa, KS	Over 1 million

 

AGC annually participates in the National Work Zone Awareness Week to highlight the dangers that motorists not obeying speed limits or not staying alert in highway construction work zones pose for construction workers. This year’s National Work Zone Awareness Week will take place April 15-19, 2013, with the theme "Work Zone Safety: We’re All In This Together.”

To get a better handle on the impact of vehicle crashes at AGC member work sites, the association has prepared a survey and asks for your participation. AGC will be releasing the survey results as part of Work Zone Awareness Week events.

Survey link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2013WorkZoneAwareness

The deadline to complete this survey is Monday, March 25.

Should you have any questions, please contact AGC's Senior Director of the Highway & Transportation Division Brian Deery at deeryb@agc.org or (703) 837-5319.

Thank you to those of you who have already completed the survey - your feedback is much appreciated! And for those of you who have not yet had the chance, please do so today!

 

AGC will hold a special roundtable session that provides attendees with an opportunity to give input on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Safety Manual (EM-385) revision process directly to USACE and Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) safety representatives. The roundtable will be held April 24 from 12 to 3 p.m. during the 2013 AGC Federal Contractors Conference at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC.

Construction safety professionals are highly encouraged to attend. This will be the last opportunity to comment on the revision process through AGC with USACE and NAVFAC safety representatives in the room before the new safety manual is issued.

To register for only this roundtable session, please click here.  For more information and to register for the entire 2013 Federal Contractors Conference (which includes this roundtable session), please click here.

 

2013 Federal Contractors Conference
April 23-25, 2013
Washington, DC

Advance Safety Management Training Course
June 17-19, 2013
Arlington, Va.

Safety & Health Conference
July 10-12, 2013
Denver, Colo.

 

Effective Nov. 2, 2012, Hawaii Administrative Rule 12-110 General Requirements were amended. The most significant change is HAR 12-110-3(b)(1) which requires daily safety and health inspections.

THE NEW REQUIREMENT STATES:

§12-110-3 Safety and health inspections.

(a) The general contractor of every construction or demolition project on which employees are engaged shall arrange to have inspections made during the period of the project for the purpose of assuring compliance with the Hawaii Occupational Safety and Health Law. Where there is no general contractor, the owner shall be responsible or shall designate one particular contractor to be responsible to perform the necessary safety inspections.

(b) Inspections shall be conducted with sufficient quality, frequency and scope to identify recognized hazards and ensure their correction in order to prevent workplace injuries, illnesses and fatalities. At minimum inspections shall be in accordance with this schedule:

(1) Projects employing 1 to 99 persons, at any single moment in the work day, shall have an employee assigned to make at least one inspection each workday;

(2) Projects employing 100 to 199 persons shall have two employees assigned, each to make at least one inspection each work day; and

(3) Projects employing 200 or more persons shall have one additional designated employee for each 300 persons above 199, each to make at least one inspection each workday.

(c) Written records of the daily safety and health inspections shall be kept on the project site for review by the director for the duration of the project. Inspection records shall include, at minimum, the following:

(1) The date and start time of the inspection;

(2) The name of the employee conducting the inspection;

(3) The scope (project areas) of the inspection, including the names of all contractors and subcontractors covered by the scope of the inspection;

(4) A brief description of all potential and actual hazards noted during the inspection;

(5) Name and title of the person responsible for correcting the identified hazards noted during the inspection;

(6) Information regarding how the hazard was eliminated, corrected or abated including the inspector’s recommendations for preventing the recurrence of the hazards.

THE OLD REQUIREMENT STATES:

§12-110-3 Safety inspections.

(a) The general contractor of every construction or demolition project on which more than 30 employees are engaged shall arrange to have inspections made during the period of the project for the purpose of assuring compliance with the standards of part 3 of this title. Where there is no general contractor, the owner shall be responsible or shall designate one particular contractor to be responsible to perform the necessary safety inspections.

(b) Required inspections shall be in accordance with this schedule:

(1) Projects employing 30 to 100 persons shall have an employee assigned to make at least one inspection each workday;

(2) Projects employing 100 to 200 persons shall have two employees assigned, each to make at least one inspection each work day; and

(3) Projects employing more than 200 persons shall have one designated employee for each 300 persons above 200, each to make at least one inspection each workday.

(c) Written records of the daily safety inspection shall be kept on the project site for review by the director.