Industry

Heavy Construction (focused on rail and transit work) 

Situation

Since the early 1980s, Stacy Witbeck has been a leading end-to-end infrastructure builder, specializing in transit. While safety has always been important to the organization, the activities intended to mitigate risk, address hazards and prevent incidents on the front line were initially created at the management level and pushed down through the organization with no input from frontline employees. This led to a more reactive safety culture, versus a proactive approach where craft employees are empowered to participate in the development or improvement of safety processes.

In 2020, the company attended a safety summit hosted by Caterpillar Safety Services focused on safety leadership and how to effectively involve an entire organization in ownership of its safety system. That was the beginning of a relationship that helped Stacy Witbeck improve its safety outcomes by focusing first on its safety culture.

Solution

• Safety Perception Surveys 
• Safety Steering Team 
• Continuous Improvement Initiatives 
• Safety Culture Excellence Workshops