This is our second part on empowering your employees within your restoration company. Idea 4—Obtain feedback from workers by administering periodic surveys and informally touching base during the workday Workers feel empowered and part of a larger effort when they are asked directly for their opinions about the safety climate on the job site and ways it can be improved. This can be done through surveys or in-person. If surveys are used, it’s important that they be anonymous a

Restoration companies in partnership with workers are responsible for ensuring that jobsite hazards are eliminated or at least minimized. These partnerships are most effective when they exist within a positive safety climate. The safety climate on a specific construction project refers to managements’ and workers’ shared perceptions of the adequacy of the safety and health programs and the consistency between the organization’s espoused safety policies/procedures and the actu

The increasing traffic congestion on our nation's roadways wastes significant time and money, reduces productivity and promotes risky driving behavior. Employees may feel pressured to drive faster and for longer periods of time and to engage in potentially distracting in-vehicle activities to meet their job responsibilities. Engaging in unsafe driving practices affects those who occasionally drive their personal vehicles for work purposes as well as those who spend their work

For restoration contracts, falls remain a leading cause of unintentional injury. In fact, 43 percent of fatal falls in the last decade have involved a ladder. Among construction workers, an estimated 81 percent of fall injuries treated in U.S. emergency departments involve a ladder. Accident statistics like this one suggest that individuals are misusing ladders in the workplace as a rule, rather than the exception; thereby, contributing to the tens of thousands of injurie