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May 21, 2021

Safety: General Contractor (Building) Over 500K Worker Hours

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BNB holds weekly safety meetings that bring together over 100 employees to review incidents, discuss critical risk observations, and showcase workers who go above and beyond the call of safety.

BNBuilders

At BNBuilders, the culture is vibrant and valued. It defines who they are, how they work, and how they interact with team members. However, as the company grows, the most considerable challenge is maintaining a strong safety culture. BNB has addressed this hurdle by integrating core cultural principles such as inclusivity, accountability, empowerment and trust into its safety program.

BNB maintains inclusivity through the mindset that everyone’s voice is equal, titles don’t determine pecking order, and good ideas can come from anywhere. This inclusivity is made apparent through BNB’s weekly safety coordination meeting, which brings together over 100 employees to review incidents, discuss critical risk observations, and showcase workers who go above and beyond the call of safety.

BNB holds itself accountable as the leader on-site because it is the general contractor. By setting health and safety standards, BNB drives to elevate specialty contractors’ performance with the hope to improve safety across the industry. BNB does this by acknowledging mistakes and admitting failures, taking ownership of them and developing a plan to move forward. It mandates that egos are set aside and consistently strives to build a better and more effective team as the leader. It’s about meeting the fundamental criterion to protect employee safety and health by creating a healthy work environment and establishing requirements to control workplace safety hazards.

BNB promotes empowerment by leading from a place of support and asking for feedback to drive continuous improvement. This empowerment is readily apparent in BNB’s Safety Champion program. Safety Champions are project-level safety leaders. They consistently promote safety on projects by going above and beyond their regular duties, looking out for their fellow craft workers, speaking up at safety meetings, finding ways to perform their work more safely, correcting unsafe conditions and leading by example. Safety Champions are given on-the-spot recognition via a gift card by meeting these criteria. They ultimately enter a pool of candidates for BNB’s annual Safety Grand Champion award.


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