Safety

In all we do, safety is foremost. All Harco employees are carefully trained in safety and environmental management.

We offer regular continuing education to keep all Harco staff up-to-date on new construction practices. They are OSHA 10-hour certified, and all employees receive a minimum of 40 hours of training in safety and continuing education.

All Harco employees are CPR and first-aid trained.

As a minimum, wherever we operate we will comply with legislation and work with our clients, consultants, contractors and regulators to raise standards towards best practice. Our performance, good and bad, will be openly reported.

Compliance with legislation is only the starting point in achieving our goal. Safety will get managed by focusing on the major risks and opportunities with incremental review and improvement against measurable targets.

It is the responsibility of everyone involved to strive for an accident-free project and minimize the potential loss of life, injury, property damage and loss of productive time that can occur in an unsafe environment.

While our Safety Program is not intended to limit the legal or contractual obligations of individual contractors working on the site, our program outlines information that will assist each project in accomplishing the following objective:

1. To carefully and systematically plan, implement and enforce proper safety techniques to avoid bodily injury, property damage and loss of productive time.

2. To establish and maintain a system of auditing project work that will promptly identify and correct unsafe practices or conditions.

3. To increase safety awareness by establishing and maintaining an employee Safety Training Program including new hire orientation, regular safety meetings and proper use and care of protective equipment.

4. To establish emergency procedures and communication with local authorities that will minimize fire, police or ambulance response time in the unfortunate event of an occurrence.

5. To control access to the construction site or the project area by developing protection plans that will secure the area and minimize hazards to the general public.

6. Compliance with the US Labor Department Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) legislation and Environmental Protection legislation, including city, state, local and owner safety requirements.

The safety of our employees, subcontractor employees and all personnel entering the construction site is taken very seriously and we always encourage and often demand that others make the same commitment.