Commitment to Safety

Safety Statistics

JH Kelly has built its safety program around the commitment to continuous improvement. This quest for safety excellence has been greatly augmented by our most valuable resource: JH Kelly employees. We encourage the consistent, active involvement of our people, from upper management to our craft workers in making safety synonymous with JH Kelly.

Our Injury Free Environment (IFE) is not just a safety program - it's a culture at JH Kelly. We believe that accidents are not only avoidable, but are unacceptable. It is this culture that ensures that our EMR is consistently well below the industry average. Our lost time injuries for 2007, 2008 and 2009 are zero.

The foundation of our safety system is a training program, which encompasses employees at all levels—enabling them to be both educated and responsible when it comes to project safety. This employee involvement process includes orientation, supervisor training, safety staff, hazard recognition, job hazard analysis, safety meetings, incentive programs and safety committees, plus an emphasis on subcontractor safety.

Orientation. All new JH Kelly employees attend a new-hire orientation prior to assuming any job duties.

Safety Staff. JH Kelly has eleven full-time safety professionals on staff, including a safety trainer, an industrial hygienist and a risk manager.

Hazard Recognition. Site safety audits are conducted weekly on all JH Kelly projects. Conducted by a site supervisor and at least one of the project’s craft workers, these audits help promote personnel involvement in safety issues as well as providing a forum to discuss techniques being used and possible alternative.

Job Hazard Analysis. At all job sites, the JH Kelly field supervisor originates a Job Hazard Analysis (JHA) to ensure that proper thought and planning have gone into each phase of the work to be done.

Safety Meetings. Conducted weekly at all projects—and daily during periods of peak activity—safety meetings are conducted by one of our field supervisors and address specific topics and concerns. Owner representatives often attend and speak at these meetings too.

Subcontractor Safety. The actions of one contractor can impact everyone on a job site. For this reason, we issue a Subcontractor Safety Questionnaire to all subcontractors as a prerequisite to employment. The questionnaire is reviewed by the corporate safety director to ensure compliance with JH Kelly requirements and expectations.

JH Kelly’s focus on safety has been recognized both regionally and nationally – a testament to the impact of our all-out commitment to providing the safest work environment possible.

But the most important measurement of our safety program isn't how many awards we have won or what safety statistics we have for any given year. It's that every night, our employees leave the jobsite and go home safely to their families. That is what we call success.