Building a Culture of Safety in Construction
At Evans, safety is our top priority both on and off the jobsite. We value life above all else and are dedicated to continuously innovating and implementing environmental, health, and safety practices to ensure the well-being of everyone involved, from tradespeople and onsite contractors to design partners and clients. We recognize that construction safety is an ongoing journey, so we strive to find new ways to create job sites free from incidents and injuries. With safety as an integral part of our company’s culture, “Everyone Home Safe” isn’t just an ideal — it’s the only way we conduct business.
Our core safety program is focused around three principles: PREPARE, PERFORM, and INNOVATE.
We prepare
To ensure the safety of all personnel, we invest in training, proper planning, and pre-task analysis to provide a safer and better-equipped team of contractors. Preparing to do the work is the most essential and effective tool in our construction safety program, so we create a culture where all stakeholders are involved in planning our critical high-risk activities to ensure that our work is completed safely.
- Trade partner prequalification
- Innovative design practices
- Safety professionals involved in preconstruction
- Safety focus in logistics
- High-risk schedule assessments
We perform
Jobsite safety is a team effort that involves everyone. By working together, we can establish and maintain systems that keep each other safe. And by treating everyone equally, from the Superintendent to the Project Manager, we can more effectively facilitate beneficial discussions and coordination with our peers on the owner and trade partner side to better execute safety on our construction projects. Through various channels, including leadership safety meetings held monthly, site safety and job site safety meetings held weekly, high-risk go-no-go safety meetings, safety committees/walks, daily pre-task analysis reviews, and event learning meetings, our teams can collaborate successfully to ensure a safer work environment.
- Safety planning translates to operational tools and systems
- Monthly executive safety reviews with teams
- Our safety program monitors engagement as a key predictive indicator
- Human performance focus
We innovate
At Evans, we are dedicated to ensuring that our workplace is free of injuries and incidents through innovation, communication, and education. The best way to do this is through training and modifying behaviors. We provide our employees with initial orientation resources followed by ongoing training that is fully endorsed by our leadership team. We believe corrective, positive reinforcement is the way to go, so by treating our employees with respect, we are able to provide our team with the sort of culture and training necessary to ensure Evans remains a safe place to work.
- A focus on predictive and event learning data makes organizational change
- Communicating corrective actions and significant events avoids repeat issues
- Defining and teaching our safety values to hold team members accountable to our culture
Incident and injury free
Additional Elements of Our Contractor Safety Program
Job Hazard Analysis
High-Risk Activity Planning
Weekly Safety Meetings
Equipment Training & Inspections
Safety Dashboards & Analytics
Incident Reporting
Project Rules & Compliance
Environmental
Event Learning Teams
To foster and fortify a culture of safety, we need teams dedicated to evaluating incidents, learning from them, and sharing strategies for improvement. These teams, known as “event learning teams,” are essential and effective in cultivating and advancing our safety culture.
Objectives
- Determine sequence of events/facts
- State incident that occurred
- Ask multiple “whys”
- Identify contributing factors
- Identify root cause
- Identify solutions and systems
- Identify lessons learned
- Communicate and track corrective actions
Subcontractor Safety
Safe work practices for everyone involved
When it comes to safety — if one of us fails, we all fail. We want everyone who visits our job sites to be aware of the potential risks, so we work together to identify problems and find solutions that prioritize the well-being of everyone involved. As needed, Evans will require subcontractors to complete a safety training course, participate in a safety stand down, or wear the necessary PPE to complete their tasks. As industry leaders, we aim to ensure that every subcontractor who works on our sites not only has a positive experience, but considers our site the best they have ever worked on.
Our Safety Leaders
John De Lay
COO
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Chad Smith
VP - Corporate Safety
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