The company tracks the number of lost-time incidents for each working hour, and from December 2005 to June 2007, the company had no lost-time incidents. Previous years have been almost as good. In 2005, employees worked 1,480,690 hours with a 0.27 lost-time incident rate. In 2004, employees worked 1,294,628 hours with no incidents. In 2003, employees worked 1,147,220 hours with 0.17 incidents. The company’s average lost-time incident rate since 2003 works out at 0.10.
The company’s workplace safety programme enforces strict employee and supervisor training and conducts frequent site visits and equipment inspections. Officials post detailed safety records in public, because they believe accountability is important, the company said.
“It may sound cliché, but safety is our number-one priority at Southern Industrial and Southern Crane, and this milestone reflects that,” said president Earl Johnson III. “Strong workplace safety makes us more competitive as a business, to be sure. But at the end of the day, our employees return home to their families in the same shape they left – and that matters most.”
Earl Johnson III, middle, with a Southern Industrial rigging crew A Southern Industrial crew
