Safety

At Evers and Sons Inc., we believe that each of us has a personal responsibility to ensure the safety and well-being of ourselves and others. We are dedicated to a culture that provides each employee with an incident free workplace.

Evers and Sons Inc. has established health, safety and environmental management systems based on recognized standards and company-wide goals. Our Safety Program consists of a strictly enforced zero-tolerance drug and alcohol program, new employee orientation, daily safety meetings, quarterly trainings sessions, and site-specific training.

Health, safety and environmental impacts are a main consideration in all Evers and Sons Inc. business decisions. We encourage all personnel to share ideas for creating and maintaining a safe and healthy workplace. A project is considered a success only when it is performed safely.

Total Recordable Incident Rate
2019 TRIR: 0.33

2020 TRIR: 0.37

2021 TRIR: 0.00

Experience Modifier Rate
2019 EMR: 0.84

2020 EMR: 0.71

2021 EMR: 0.65

Key Performance Indicators

KPI’s are used to evaluate the success of safety policies and procedures, KPI’s based from leading and lagging indicators inform our Safety Dept to review, track, and identify unsafe trends that may require additional training or policy modifications.

Examples are as follows:

Leading Indicators

Risk Observation Cards (ROCs)
ROCs are given to individual work personnel to report safe and unsafe acts. The HSE Department reviews all ROCs and determines if additional training and/or procedure revisions are necessary.
Daily Site Safety Reviews
With the platform utilized to complete our daily site safety reviews, a monthly report of the analytics can inform our management team of trending areas that require immediate attention to prevent an incident from occurring.

Lagging Indicators

Near Miss Report
Near Miss Reports are completed when there is an occurrence on site that could have caused injury or property damage, these occurrences are investigated the same as an actual incident report and the cause is tracked to ensure a trend does not form the cause found.
Incident Report
Incident occurrences demand immediate attention the instant of notification, Evers & Sons Inc. strives to ensure a safe work place for all of its employees yet incidents still do occur. Incident reports are investigated to the fullest to ensure a full understanding of cause, incidents that meet certain criteria require a full Root Cause Analysis Investigation. Following all investigations Corrective Actions if applicable are decided on from the management team and the implementation process is initiated.
Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR)
Number of incidents, multiplied by 200,000, then divided by the total number of hours worked in a year.

Gold Shovel Standard

We are proud to be a member of the Gold Shovel Standard which is a nonprofit organization committed to improving workforce and public safety and the integrity of buried infrastructure. We strive to work together for greater transparency in all aspects of damage prevention among buried asset operators, locators, and excavators.