January 27, 2025

Grand Award for Safety Excellence

Photo courtesy of Exxel Pacific

Exxel Pacific’s powerful bond between management and employees empowers everyone to speak up about safety-related issues (including stop work authority for all workers on projects).

Exxel Pacific

Employee involvement is key to the safety program at Exxel Pacific, and the impetus behind successful and honest employee feedback is safety culture. Exxel Pacific’s core values teach the importance of treating each other like family. When these values are upheld, they create a special bond between management and employee.

From this bond comes the willingness to speak up about safety-related issues (including stop work authority for all workers on projects), provide regular feedback, and work together with the safety team to create solutions and improve the program on a consistent basis.

One way this is accomplished is through Exxel Pacific’s safety committee, which regularly meets to discuss safety trends by inspecting monthly project incident logs and finding common themes. This committee does more than simply fulfil a regulatory requirement, they bring action items to the table that are diligently considered and often put into practice.

Recently, the safety committee came up with the idea of modifying its approach to subcontractor involvement in jobsite safety by creating a Jobsite Safety Team. A Jobsite Safety Team (JST) is created at the start of every project and is made up of project leadership, field supervision, and safety representatives from Exxel Pacific and all major subcontractors.

The JST meets regularly (monthly at a minimum) to discuss project safety concerns, incident trends, compliance issues, and upcoming project work, or activities that may require additional safety planning and/or coordination. All best practices reported on the JST meeting minutes are submitted to the Exxel Pacific Safety Committee for review. The intention is not only to bolster safety participation on projects, but to constantly improve the safety program holistically.

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