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This year’s Construction Safety Week theme is “All In Together: Plan, Own, Commit.” How do you personally put safety into action each day?

Our goal on our jobsites to make sure everyone goes home at the end of the day. We come to work for ourselves and our loved ones, and we put safety first to ensure everyone that steps foot onto our sites leaves without incident, to enjoy what they work so hard to provide.

Please share how �Թ�Ⱥ��’s proactive safety measures and planning have contributed to successful project outcomes. What preventative practices have been most effective? 

Pre-planning of work is critical to the safe and successful outcome of any project. Think through the plan, review the plan with those involved, and execute.

What safety innovation or improvement are you most proud to have contributed to at �Թ�Ⱥ��?

I am proud to be a part of our Roaming Craft All-Hands Safety Meetings. This is something San Diego started about two years ago. Every division has their bi-monthly safety meetings attended by Admin and Supervisors but not attended by our Craft. Since our Craft are the ones putting work in place and getting things done, we felt it was important to connect with them in the field and share a similar outline as the Division Safety Meeting. These meetings are once a month, and the jobsite is selected by the field leaders of the division. Topics reviewed are overall safety stats and how we are doing as a company, trends, tool training, communication, incident reporting and proper documentation, to name a few.

Who has been an influential mentor in your construction career, and what valuable (safety) lessons have they taught you?

A line that has always stuck with me is “Safety is a biproduct of well-planned work,” from Jeff Timm. This tells me that if we do our part and plan our work well, safety will automatically come first. When we plan our work, let’s look for the hazards, plan around them and then execute our plan.

What do you believe sets �Թ�Ⱥ��’s safety culture apart in the construction industry? How does being part of a 100% employee-owned company influence this approach? 

What sets �Թ�Ⱥ�� apart from the rest of the industry really comes down to the people. We care about our people, but we don’t just say we care – we really care. Everything we do on jobs is not to add rules or make jobs more difficult. It really comes down to making sure everyone walks off that job and goes home at the end of the day. Being part of 100% employee-owned company influences this because we all have skin in the game. It helps us all have more of a focus on what we do and helps us all strive to be the best we can.

What message would you like to send out to your fellow employee-owners during Construction Safety Week? Any safety tips that you would like to share? 

Stay focused, remember the basics, and know that everyone on a jobsite looks to the �Թ�Ⱥ�� vest as the example to follow.