Ask any concrete contractor about their top priorities. They'll likely put safety at number one - if not, it's tied with people. You can see evidence of this by looking at the trends of equipment and tools. Innovations drive safety in new clever ways. New technologies provide feedback and real-time information more than just equipment location, but actionable data on both the concrete placed as well as the batch heading down the road.
The Safety and Risk Management Council of the American Society of Concrete Contractors (ASCC) understands this. During the annual ASCC Conference, the Safety and Risk Management Council (SRMC) announced the winners of the year's Safety Awards. The ASCC SRMC educated contractors on all aspects of safety and insurance matters. Their annual awards program recognizes contractors with successful safety programs.
- Improvement: Numbers better than the previous year
- Zero Lost Time: Zero lost time incidents
- Recognition: An incident rate better than the industry average
Six contractors, one in each category according to general or specialty contractor and number of manhours, with the lowest incident rate for their category received special Outstanding recognition.
General Contractor Outstanding Achievement Awards
- Alberici Constructors Inc. - Zero Lost Time, Recognition - over 650,000 work hours
- California Engineering Contractors - Outstanding, Zero Lost Time, Improvement, and Recognition - 92,000 to 649,999 work hours
- Schiralli Construction Corp. - Outstanding, Zero Lost Time and Recognition - less than 91,999 work hours
Specialty Contractor Outstanding Achievement Awards
- TAS Commercial Concrete Construction - Zero Lost Time, Improvement, and Recognition - over 5000,000 work hours
- Trademark Concrete Systems Inc. - Zero Lost Time, and Recognition - 100,000 to 499,999 work hours
- Popoff Inc. - Zero Lost Time, Improvement, and Recognition - less than 99,999 work hours
Fleet Safety Awards
The Fleet Safety Award is based on accidents and miles driven in 2022 with zero indicents.
- Industrial Caulk & Seal - Zero Lost Time and Recognition - 599,999 miles driven or less (550,000 miles with zero accidents)
- MK Concrete Construction - Recognition - 600,000 to 1,299,999 miles driven (1,286,000 miles driven with zero accidents)
- William Winkler Co. - Zero Lost Time and Recognition - 1,300,000 miles driven or more (2,880,031 miles with zero accidents)
The W. Burr Bennett Awards for Safety Excellence
The W. Burr Bennett Awards for Safety Excellence is presented annually to one general contractor and one specialty contractor that place the highest priority on safety. Entries are judged on three years of safety performance indicators, a self-assessment checklist, and essay questions. A select group of companies are invited to apply for this award.
Winners demonstrate upper management and owner commitment to safety. They also show employee involvement, active participation of and dedication to safety, and effective controls over major exposure to accidents and injuries.
- Trademark Concrete Systems Inc., specialty contractor
- Alberici Constructors Inc., general contractor
To qualify for the W. Burr Bennett Award for Safety Excellence, contractors must be self-performing and must have an experienced modifier of less than 1.0 for 2022, have an OHSA reportable injury rate that does not exceed the national average, have not had a jobsite fatality resulting in an OHSA citation with the 36-month qualification period, a four or five-star rating, and an ASCC safety training assessment and recognition program star.
The Owner/Executive Safety Award
Given annually to recognize one contractor owner/executive who demonstrates safety from the top down. The winner is someone who displays a clear focus and passion for safety and provides the leadership that truly creates a safe work environment.
This year's Owner/Executive Safety Award was presented to John Goodrich, President of Infrastructure and Concrete, of Jordon Foster Construction LLC.
In recommending John for this award, his employees said, “John takes an active role to fully integrate safety into every aspect of how each individual in the company does business. He ensures the team is actively engaged, supported, challenged, and empowered to have a voice and safety ownership.”
Goodrich has expanded safety's influence from creating workplaces free from harm to encompassing an environment where every person on each one of our projects feels valued respected and heard. He has provided unwavering support for field leader initiative, developing our future field leaders to become trusted advisers, and providing conflict resolution, communication, and mental health awareness.
Goodrich supports cutting-edge technology platforms to continuously enhance the organization's safety focus by tracking leading indicators, such as training and education, hazard recognition, prevention planning, observations, audits, near-miss identification, and culture of care initiative. He is an ally for diversity, equity, and inclusion by recruiting and retaining top talent, essential components of a safe successful workplace.
Under Goodrich's unwavering commitment to safety and through his leadership, Jordan Foster Construction has earned the highest safety recognition in the country including being recognized as one of 2022 America's safest contractors by the AGC Construction Safety Excellence Award and IRMI for the Gary E. Horizon award. It is John's commitment to technology, well-being, leadership, and diversity that has expanded the definition of safety for the construction industry.
The 2023 ASCC Saftey Awards
- ACE/AVANT Concrete Construction Co., Inc. - Recognition
- Albanelli Cement Construction Inc. - Zero Lost Time, Improvement, and Recognition
- Architectural Concrete Excellence LLC - Zero Lost Time, Recognition
- The Art of Concrete LLC - Zero Lost Time, Recognition
- B. Concrete Inc. - Recognition
- Baker Concrete Construction - Recognition
- Baron Malaw Co. - Improvement, Recognition
- Bass Commerical Concrete - Zero Lost Time, Recognition
- Beck & Hofer Construction Inc. - Recognition
- Belfast Valley Contractors - Improvement
- Canyon Concrete Inc. Zero Lost Time and Recognition
- Ceco Concrete Construction LLC Improvement and Recognition
- Century Concrete Inc. - Improvement and Recognition
- Charles Pankow Builders - Zero Lost Time and Recognition
- Citadel Contractors Inc. - Zero Lost Time, Improvement, and Recognition
- Conco - Improvement
- Concrete Strategies LLC - Improvement and Recognition
- Contek Inc. - Zero Lost Time and Recognition
- Cooper River Concrete LLC - Zero Lost Time, Improvement, and Recognition
- DANKO Concrete Construction - Zero Lost Time, Improvement, and Recognition
- Encore Concrete Construction LLC - Outstanding, Zero Lost Time, Improvement, and Recognition
- Fessler & Bowman Inc. - Recognition
- Guy Yocom Construction Inc. - Improvement and Recognition
- Hardrock Concrete Placement Co Inc. - Zero Lost Time, Improvement, and Recognition
- Hemma Concrete - Zero Lost Time and Recognition
- Jordan Foster Construction LLC - Zero Lost Time and Recognition
- K&M Construction - Zero Lost Time
- Keystone Structural Concrete LLC - Zero Lost Time, Improvement, and Recognition
- Kolde Concrete Construction - Recognition
- Largo Concrete Inc. - Improvement and Recognition
- Martin Concrete Construction - Zero Lost Time and Recognition
- McGillicuddy Concrete LLC - Zero Lost Time and Recognition
- Merlo Construction Co. Inc. - Zero Lost Time and Recognition
- Miller & Long Co Inc. - Recognition
- Musselman & Hall Contractors - Recognition
- Nibbi Concrete - Improvement
- The Noel Company Inc. - Zero Lost Time and Recognition
- North Coast Concrete Inc. - Zero Lost Time, Improvement, and Recognition
- Pacific Structures - Zero Lost Time, Improvement, and Recognition
- Painters USA - Zero Lost Time, Improvement, and Recognition
- Pure Floors Inc. - Zero Lost Time, Improvement, and Recognition
- Quesenbuerry's Inc. - Zero Lost Time and Recognition
- QuestMark - Improvement and Recognition
- R.S. Widdoes & Son Inc. - Zero Lost Time and Recognition
- Raffin Construction Company - Zero Lost Time and Recognition
- Royale Concrete - Zero Lost Time and Recognition
- The Spieker Company - Outstanding, Zero Lost Time, Improvement, and Recognition
- Sullivan Construction Group - Zero Lost Time and Recognition
- Suntec Concrete - Recognition
- Swinerton Builders - Improvement and Recognition
- Thompson Commercial Concrete - Recognition
- Vee-Jay Cement Construction Co. Inc. - Recognition
- Wayne Brothers Companies - Zero Lost Time and Recognition
- Winco Construction Co. Inc. - Zero Lost Time and Improvement
Not every winner was able to be presented with their awards at the conference. Winners of Improvement, Zero Lost Time (Incidents), or Recognition. Certificates were mailed to the contractor's office location.
The Safety and Risk Management Council (SRMC) is a specialty council dedicated to making ASCC contractors the safest in the industry. The Council board consists of safety and insurance professionals from all aspects of the concrete contracting industry. Council activities include publication development, review, and monitoring of ASCC events and materials for safety compliance, member education, a safety awards program, and a safety/insurance hotline.
