Excellence in Safety: U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs Corpus Christi Outpatient Clinic
This federal project recorded a rate of zero for both its OSHA recordable incident rate and lost-time accident rate. These pristine safety numbers come from a project of nearly 18,800 work hours with as many as 300 people on site at a given time.
“This success came down to each worker’s personal commitment to creating a thriving safety culture,” Jacobsen Construction noted in its Best Projects submittal. “Expectations were set early on with a required project-specific safety training for all workers that discussed anticipated risks and mitigation strategies” and a constant dialogue about the importance of safety.