2019 NSC Congress & Expo

140 - The Power of FOCUS: How Directing Safety Efforts Toward a Few Critical Issues Led to Excellence "CASE STUDY" (Room 32B)

11 Sep 19
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Tracks: Construction/Labor/Utilities

Speaker(s): Terry Mathis, CEO, ProAct Safety Inc.; Ron Oakley, Corporate Director HSE, Sunland Construction

The pipeline construction business is dangerous, but the companies that hire the constructors require safety excellence. Sunland Construction partnered with ProAct Safety to take its good performance to great. By focusing on a few key critical issues, and driving them into the heads and habits of their workforce through acronyms and reinforcement, the company was able to take its safety performance to a whole new level. In this session, you’ll learn how Sunland Construction decided on this focus, how it turned into a cultural norm and how it impacted lagging indicators.