The goal of our Corporate Health and Safety program is to create a consistent and sustainable safe working environment for the benefit of our employees and clients. In 2012, we have made great strides on both fronts in creating a unique Parratt Wolff safety culture.

Now with three office locations, PW has been working to create a consistent safety program that can be seen on any of our projects. To improve training efficiency, employees at all three of our office locations can now participate in real-time monthly safety meetings through the use of video conferencing software. Whether in North Carolina, Pennsylvania or New York, we make sure everyone is a part of the safety conversation. PW Health and Safety director Preston Simmons is leading the charge; “Technology has quickly become a great asset to our safety program. As director, it has been a lot of work to keep everyone on the same page. Our use of technology in this program will make us much more efficient in the future.”

Preston was able to test our new conferencing technology during last month’s safety meeting. He was joined by Dr. Erika Nowak, a herpetologist and professor from Northern Arizona University. Dr. Nowak hosted a seminar on snake ecology and training. Field crews from both the Syracuse NY and Hillsborough NC office were able to participate in the training to help them identify snake hazards from the mountains of Northern Pennsylvania to the swamps of Florida. In the future, all monthly safety meetings will be on conference to include constituents from all three PW locations.

In addition to internal progress of our health and safety plan, our clients can also benefit from our program long before the project begins. Clients can now view our company profile on numerous third party verification sites. Having memberships to auditing sites like Browz, PICS and ISNetworld allows a more convenient access to our company’s information. On these sites, users can get in in-depth company snapshot. Using the sites together will provide access to business finance information, certificates of insurance, DOT information, OSHA logs and various employee-training certificates. The convenience of these tools provides our clients the ability to retrieve this information at all hours of the day in easy-to-read formats.

By everyone working together to create a safety culture here at PW, we are seeing great results. Last week, our Hillsborough NC office earned the North Carolina Department of Labor Certificate of Safety Achievement Gold Award for the third consecutive year. This award is given in recognition of outstanding safety and health efforts resulting in a substantial reduction in injury and illnesses by promoting safe working conditions in 2011.

For the past 5 years we have made a dedicated commitment to achieving our goal of zero recordable incidents. We will continue to work hard in developing our program to ensure that all employees go home safely everyday.

For more information on our Health and Safety program, visit our Health and Safety page or contact Preston Simmons at the Syracuse NY office.

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