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Safety and healthSafety is planned before the work starts
Every project runs under an accident prevention plan written to USACE EM 385-1-1, the safety requirements manual for U.S. military construction, with a site safety and health officer on site whenever work is under way. Hazards are analyzed before each activity starts, and anyone on site can stop work that is not safe.
Safety at a glance
- Standards
- USACE EM 385-1-1 and OSHA 29 CFR 1926
- Plan
- Accident prevention plan, accepted before work starts
- On site
- Site safety and health officer
- Each activity
- Activity hazard analysis, briefed to the crew
- Everyone
- Authority to stop unsafe work
- Record
- No lost-time accidents on our projects
Six layers of control between a hazard and a crew
Each layer has an owner and a record, and the record is checked before the work moves on.
Accident prevention plan
Written for the project and accepted by the government before work starts, with the site-specific plans the work needs.
Activity hazard analyses
One for each definable feature of work, briefed to the crew before that work starts and updated when conditions change.
Orientation and training
Site orientation for every worker, toolbox talks, and competent persons named for the work that requires them.
Permits and lift plans
Hot work, confined space, excavation, energized work and crane lifts planned and permitted before work begins.
Daily inspections
Inspections and a daily safety report by the site safety and health officer, with deficiencies tracked to correction.
Incidents and near misses
Reported at once, investigated for cause and shared, so the lesson reaches the next crew.
Safety has an owner at every level
Named in the accident prevention plan and briefed to every crew.
Site safety and health officer
On site whenever work is under way and trained to the level EM 385-1-1 requires; inspects daily and records the findings in the daily safety report.
Project manager
Owns the accident prevention plan, gives it the people and time it needs and reviews safety performance with the client.
Subcontractors
Work under our accident prevention plan, attend site orientation and write activity hazard analyses for their own work, reviewed by our site safety and health officer.
Every worker
Authority to stop work that is not safe, without blame, and a duty to report hazards and near misses.
Safety for remote, hot and access-controlled sites
Our sites are on U.S. installations in the Middle East and Africa, where summer heat, long supply lines and base rules shape the safety plan. The plan covers them before the crew arrives.
- Heat stress plans for summer work: water, shade, rest and work-rest cycles
- Medical and emergency plans tied to the installation's response
- Base access, escort and security rules briefed at orientation
- Briefings in the languages the crew understands
- Defense Base Act insurance for our overseas workforce