The 300 employees of US based mobile crane rental company AmQuip have completed one year and 600,000 hours worked without a single lost time injury.
The Carteret, New Jersey facility worked one year “injury free,” and the Carteret, New Jersey and Allentown-Bethlehem, Pennsylvania facilities collectively are injury free in 2002 and have worked 175,000 hours since their last recordable incident, the company claims.
AmQuip attributes its safety record to making every supervisor directly accountable and responsible for safety performance in his or her respective areas. His or her annual performance evaluations and career path depend on their ability to perform each task efficiently and productively as well as safely, the company says.
In addition to supervisor accountability, AmQuip’s employees are encouraged and coached to drive their safety program to reach annual established goals and objectives. “After all, it’s our employees who clean, repair, drive, and operate our equipment daily, they should be the personnel most involved in the day to day safety decisions,” said corporate safety director Jeff Hammons. “300 pairs of eyes focused on the safety of our workforce will always better than one or two.”
