Regional Safety Manager

>> Chris Reefer, Regional Safety Manager. A lot of what I do is overseeing the work by our site coordinators. We've got eight different site coordinators. I follow up making sure they're doing the inspection, doing the training that we need to have done for each of our employees. When I arrive on a job, I usually get with a superintendent, let them know that I'm here; I'm going to do an inspection. The biggest thing is to identify the hazards of the job. There's a lot of hazards when you work construction. And some of the things that we can do is you know train our employees to identify the same hazards we do so that they act like safety people for us. So we have a good trained employee then we're going to have a good safe jobsite. Some of the basic precautions that you know you'll find on any construction site are hardhats, safety glasses, [inaudible]. If we're working at heights, we always wear fall protection at six feet. Depending on the job you're doing, what tools you're using depends on what kind of safety requirements or safety equipment you're going to wear so. In my day to day, a lot of times I'm on a different job each day so I really got to understand what work's going on that day, talk to all the supervisors, see what they're plan is. And the more you get to know the people that are out there working the better it is to convey your message to them because if you don't know them, you're just some guy from Pittsburgh coming out to do a safety inspection alright? So you really have to know the people, know what job they're doing to be able to identify you know the hazards out there. Typically, come out for the safety meeting in the morning, this morning we had a safety meeting, after the safety meeting we have individual task meetings each supervisor gives, I attend one of those, add as much as I can to the end of the meeting and then you know just start looking around, identifying the hazards, making sure everybody's prepared for what they're going to do that day.