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BION Safety Team Participates in the Hensley Phelps Safety Roundtable




BION was very thankful to Hensley Phelps for putting together an outstanding roundtable with other Mechanical, Construction and Safety Professionals in the region. BION’s Safety Manager and HR Director were able to confirm what an amazing job BION is doing in the field and were able to take away additional opportunities to keep our employees safe moving forward. BION looks forward to future opportunities.

Topics discussed included.

Safe Projects

What does a safe project look like?

  • Housekeeping
  • Clean Paths
  • Job Orientation that makes sense
  • Uniformity (All BION jobs look the same)
  • Leadership (Present and Transparent)
  • Common areas and places for the men to eat.
  • Timing is consistent (Leadership messages, Toolbox talks, Subs, Orientations from GC)
  • Right Tool – Right Job – No tool clutter

6 Safety Successes

  • Trade Partnerships
  • Training
  • Recognition
  • Planning Meetings
  • Managing High Risk in advance
  • Safety Team-Safety Goals-Safety Plan

Accident Prevention (Human and Tool)

  • Policies
  • Training
  • Audits, Inspections, Constantly being reviewed.

Focusing Effort

  • Install Standards
  • Selection
  • Purchase
  • Choosing the Right Job and Timeframe
  • Advanced PPE
  • Safety Citizenship
    • Core Values
    • Vision and Mission
    • Non-Negotiables
    • Adaptive Learning
    • Knowing when to change

Data Trends-Outside of OSHA 300

  • Unsafe Acts
  • Material Handling
  • Not using approved PPR (Vision and Hand ware)
  • Onsite training programs (Determan is awesome at this)
  • How other companies are affecting BION’s work (Electrical, Duct, Dry Wall etc.)

First Aid Levels and the use of On-Site based programs

  • Where were in the 1970-2000’s to where we are now.
  • Data trends in your field vs your company data
  • CSRA article
    • Is the medical field killing companies?
      • Forcing employees to emergency rooms
      • X-ray when there is no need to X ray.
      • Antibiotics or medication that is unnecessary causing longer periods to be assessed.
      • Cuts or bruises are being escalated to long periods of time off.
        • PTO used.
        • Losses in pay
        • OSHA numbers that hurt the bottom line for employers
  • On-Site Programs
    • Will perform basic first aid without sending employees to the doctor.
    • 90% of injuries treated by on-site result with the employee losing no time.
    • Remaining 10% result in trips to the emergency room
    • This is similar to what we saw with Gilbane (DJ situation)

Human Error

  • Early mornings, long hours, Tired
  • Pressure to meet timelines.
  • Put in a situation where they are not trained or prepared to do something.
  • Personal Problems
  • Aging Workforce
  • Moving too quickly or too slowly
  • Low Morale