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SEVEN SAFE PERCEPTIONS THAT LEAD TO SAFETY EXCELLENCE

Safety Week 2014

HOAR CONSTRUCTION CELEBRATES SAFETY WEEK 2014

During Safety Week, all project teams, division offices and departments throughout Hoar should take the opportunity to join this effort and inspire everyone (employees, subcontractors and owners) associated with our company to be leaders in safety. Across the company, we want to start each morning with a discussion about safety, focused on our “Seven Safe Perceptions That Lead to Safety Excellence”. Challenge your teams to think about how these new perceptions of safety can make their work better. Even though safety meetings are usually focused towards a field perspective, I ask you all to think about and discuss as a group how these perceptions apply to everyone’s role and how they can be applied to help us all work safely. Please use Safety Week as another great way to bring more awareness to our safety efforts across Hoar and our industry. Thanks, and Let’s Build Something Safely! Bart Wilder, Corporate Safety Director

Hoar Construction is actively participating in Safety Week 2014, which occurs Monday, May 5th through Friday, May 9th. Safety Week is a nationwide effort initiated by a group of national construction firms to bring focused awareness and attention to construction safety issues. This is the first initiative of its kind started by contractors like ourselves and we are excited to be a part of it.

How is safety perceived on your job? What are the perceptions that create challenges to building a better industry?

PERCEPTION IS REALITY

SEVEN DANGEROUS PERCEPTIONS OF SAFETY

1. Zero injuries isn’t possible. 2. Safety excellence means not getting hurt. 3. Safety is not my job. 4. It won’t happen to me. 5. We’re already good. 6. We celebrate the “get it done” guy. 7. I am already a good communicator.

HOAR’S SEVEN SAFE PERCEPTIONS THAT LEAD TO SAFETY EXCELLENCE

1. ZERO injuries IS possible. 2. Safety Excellence is more than zero injuries.

It is committing to our Safety Process. 3. Safety IS my job. 4. It CAN happen to me. 5. We’re already good BUT we must be relentless in our

pursuit of improvement. 6. We celebrate the guy who “gets it done” SAFELY!!! 7. I can be a BETTER communicator.

SAFE PERCEPTION #1

ZERO injuries IS possible.

Thinking otherwise is the Achilles heel to the pursuit beyond ZERO. Thinking of safety in smaller chunks of time – minutes, hours, days – can make the end goal

seem more attainable.

Brookdale University Park Assisted Living – Birmingham, AL Houston Office Team

SAFE PERCEPTION #2

Safety Excellence is committing to our Safety Process.

Believing in the Safety Process creates thinkers who have ownership of safety, enabling them to go home

safely at the end of every day.

Jamie Whitten Delta States Research Center – Stoneville, MS Flowers Hospital – Dothan, AL

SAFE PERCEPTION #3

Safety IS my job.

Each individual needs to recognize the precautions to take to minimize their exposure to risk, both on and off

the job.

Loewenberg School of Nursing at University of Memphis – Memphis, TN

Houston Office Team

SAFE PERCEPTION #4

It CAN happen to me.

Complacency is dangerous. Understanding the risk involved is the foundation for the steps needed to

minimize it.

Avalon – Alpharetta, GA Cathedral of St. Paul's – Birmingham, AL

SAFE PERCEPTION #5

We’re already good, but we MUST be relentless in our pursuit of improvement.

We must continue to raise awareness to keep working towards Safety Excellence. It’s easy to think what got

us here will keep us here.

HealthSouth – Altamonte Springs, FL Avalon – Alpharetta, GA

SAFE PERCEPTION #6

We celebrate the person who “gets it done SAFELY”!

Recognizing the efforts of individuals who perform

work safely encourages similar behavior among others and shows appreciation for a “job well done”.

Academy Corporate Headquarters – Katy, TX GreenStreet – Houston, TX

SAFE PERCEPTION #7

I WILL be a better communicator.

Communication is one of the biggest obstacles in safety. Improving the way we communicate can turn

big problems into bigger solutions.

University Flats – Birmingham, AL Loewenberg School of Nursing at University of Memphis – Memphis, TN

HOAR’S SAFETY PLEDGE

I PLEDGE TO BE SAFE

As an employee of Hoar Construction, I pledge my support for Hoar’s safety culture and in helping Hoar become a

“WORLD CLASS” Organization. I recognize that safety begins with me: • I pledge to work safely for myself and for those who love and depend

on me. • I pledge to plan my work in order to work safely. • I pledge to look for unsafe conditions and fix or report them

immediately. • I pledge to ask my supervisor if I question in any way the safe

completion of an assignment • I pledge to stop others who are working in an unsafe manner. • I pledge to work for an accident free project.

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