safety

The personal safety and health of each employee is of primary importance. Prevention of occupationally-induced injuries and illnesses is of such consequence that it is given precedence over operating productivity. To the greatest degree possible, management will provide all mechanical and physical protection required for personal safety and health on all of our engineered systems.

The foundation of our safety program consists of three fundamentals, training, incentives, and discipline.

Training being the most important, all of our superintendents are:

• OSHA 30-hour trained
• Competent person-fall protection
• Competent person-excavations
• Competent person-scaffolding
• First Aid-CPR certified
• Long-time employees promoted from within

Through the safety training given on a daily basis to each employee and the more specific training given to our lead men and superintendents we know we can maintain a jobsite driven by safety excellence.

Incentives include everyone from our hourly workers to top management. Everyone is compensated for going that extra mile, which puts us an extra mile ahead of our competition.

Discipline is equally important to us, we do not tolerate employees who fail to comply to our safety regulations.  We require everyone to be trained properly.  Before they leave the ground, they know the proper method of fall protection and will use it 100% of the time. We do not take chances with our employees’ lives or our clients reputation.

Are we as good as we say we are? Despite the dangerous nature of our business, our Experience Modification Rate is a remarkable 0.78, which is far below the 1.00 baseline for the industry. Our lost time and recordable rates are also well below the national average. Our numbers say that when it comes to safety, Southern Pan Services is a proactive company that is concerned with the safety and health needs of not only our employees but our clients as well.

It is very important to Southern Pan Services that when we have an on the job injury that we maintain a good relationship and a line of communication with the injured employee and the treating physicians. This is why we have a full time person in the Risk Management department that tracks the recovery progress of every injured employee. We also maintain a proactive light duty program that allows the employee to work according to the restrictions that have been given by the physician until the employee is able to return to full duty work.