Our Commitment to Safety above All Else
About Us
Our Services
Our Core Values
D. Grimm’s highest priority is ensuring all of our team members go home safely at the end of the day.
We employ 4 highly trained safety managers that offer training to our workforce which includes various certifications. Some of the training includes: First Aid / CPR, AED, excavation safety, driver safety, and more.
Our safety culture is more than just words—D. Grimm, Inc is a family that strives to protect its people. Every person in D. Grimm, Inc takes personal accountability to uphold our safety standards, whether on-site or off. Our HSE professionals work hard and take responsibility for the safety of every person on their team. Our culture of safety is effective because it is sustainable through:
- Daily Job Site Analysis
- Weekly Toolbox Topics
- Safety Committees
- Weekly Management Meetings
- Safety Committee
- Employee Safety Incentive
- Training and Screening
Our Safety Commitment
From every construction project to every service, safety is our primary objective. Protecting our employees, the public, and the environment is at the heart of everything we do. To us, safety is more than a corporate commitment—it’s our moral obligation.
Company safety goals
- The Company is committed to establishing an incident-free work site and to continuously target zero incidents. To accomplish this, The Company will utilize proven safety processes that have been developed to drive and sustain the belief that safety is a value that will not be compromised and must be championed by all. The Company will utilize a behavior focused, peer to peer safety approach that seeks to build a safety culture, educate and provide ownership opportunities to all employees. It is recognized that each employee must be given the opportunity to succeed in performing their tasks in an incident-free manner and that this can be accomplished through adequate training, task planning, and open communication forums. The Company also recognizes the importance of utilizing craft supervision that have the appropriate knowledge, authority and desire to champion safety programs and procedures.
- These goals are achievable by implementing the following:
- Educate employees to plan and perform their work through detailed multi-leveled task planning.
- Implement a highly effective orientation and continue education to achieve commitment from all employees.
- Implement a highly effective continuous improvement program.
- Implement an employee involvement, Behavior Based Safety (BBS) Program to promote communication, teamwork, and to identify leading indicators.
- Utilize “Near Miss Events” or “Good Catches” as lessons learned and promote the reporting of events to capture leading indicator information.
- Implement craft training as appropriate to help guide employees to safely perform their work and to use effective training tools to provide that training and certification.
- Utilize lessons learned and share improvement techniques that may originate from other sources other than The Company. Demonstrate commitment by having front line Supervisors actively participate in driving towards a Target Zero Incidents Project.
The Practices We Implement
- Educate employees to plan and perform their work through detailed multi-leveled task planning.
- Implement a highly effective orientation and continue education to achieve commitment from all employees.
- Implement a highly effective continuous improvement program.
- Implement an employee involvement, Behavior Based Safety (BBS) Program to promote communication, teamwork, and to identify leading indicators.
- Utilize “Near Miss Events” or “Good Catches” as lessons learned and promote the reporting of events to capture leading indicator information.
- Implement craft training as appropriate to help guide employees to safely perform their work and to use effective training tools to provide that training and certification.
- Utilize lessons learned and share improvement techniques that may originate from other sources other than The Company. Demonstrate commitment by having front line Supervisors actively participate in driving towards a Target Zero Incidents Project.
What We Believe
Our Principles
Safety Starts at the Top
We Do It Right
Our Most Valuable Assets
Employees are the most important asset of any company. We value the safety of our employees above all else, and we achieve this by exercising three practices—input, participation, and accountability. Our employees are our family, and since they’re the one’s in the field, it’s important to us that their voices are heard. We also insist on their active participation when performing on-site safety practices and make sure to hold them accountable. So they have the opportunity to actively participate in the required safety precautions.
Our Safety Practices
- Site analysis training—hazard recognition and elimination or mitigation, PPE assessment and inspection, and project orientations.
- HSE Outreach Training, First Aid, Traffic Control, Leadership Development, and all other Policy Training.
- Facilitation of open communication regarding safety, health, environmental, and security issues.
