Excellence in Safety: Banner Estrella Medical Center Addition
The safety plan implemented for the 279,000-sq-ft, six-story Banner Estrella hospital tower in Phoenix by McCarthy Building Cos. not only established new safety standards that are now used on all of the firm’s projects, but also contributed to zero lost-time injuries and a recordable incident rate of 0.47 during more than 850,000 worker hours.
"Each McCarthy jobsite has a site-specific safety plan, and it is not that we do it and review once a year. It is taken seriously and adjusted constantly," says Chris Nickle, McCarthy of Arizona safety director.