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Southland views personnel safety as an inherent part of delivering a quality product to our customers. By ensuring our workers' on-the-job safety,
we reduce labor rates, prevent schedule interruptions and increase the confidence of your project partners. Improved safety has an additional customer benefit:
our employees know how much we value them, and it shows in our low turnover rates. So you get the benefit of a team of long-term Southland employees at your
service.
Our determined safety professionals are committed to eliminating hazards and to training our personnel to work safely. The Southland corporate safety program includes:
- A comprehensive written Code of Safe Practices and Safety and Health Rules
- A detailed Injury Prevention Program
- Maintaining a team of dedicated safety professionals
- Active participation in every aspect of the safety program by all employees, from management down to brand new internship recruits
- A Safety Incentive Program
- A Return to Work Program to eliminate time lost to accidents
- Quarterly foremen's safety training meetings and social events to facilitate communication between field employees and the safety department, and to recognize safety performance
- A program for reporting, investigating and tracking any injuries that do occur
- 24-hour availability of the safety director and field safety representative
- Weekly "toolbox" safety training for all field personnel
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The industry has recognized our safety achievements with numerous awards, including:
Occupational Excellence Achievement Award
National Safety Council, 2007 (outstanding efforts in occupational safety performance)
Million Work Hour Award
National Safety Council, 2006 (operating 2,000,000 employee hours without occupational injury or illness involving days away from work)
James T. Smerz Award of Honor
Specialty Trades Insurance Co., 2005-2006
Safety Achievement Award
Specialty Trades Insurance Co., 2004-2005, 2003-2004
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