{"id":1499,"date":"2015-04-14T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geostabilization.com\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=1499"},"modified":"2024-02-09T18:38:32","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T18:38:32","slug":"geostabilizations-safety-initiative-reaches-two-new-milestones","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.geostabilization.com\/ca\/resources\/news\/geostabilizations-safety-initiative-reaches-two-new-milestones\/","title":{"rendered":"GeoStabilization\u2019s Safety Initiative Reaches Two New Milestones"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- Start Block: acf\/wysiwyg -->\n<section class=\"wysiwyg section-padding bg-white\">\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-lg-10 col-lg-offset-1\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wysiwyg__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.geostabilization.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/11\/Annual-Safety-Meeting.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.geostabilization.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/11\/Annual-Safety-Meeting.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.geostabilization.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/11\/Annual-Safety-Meeting-300x110.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.geostabilization.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/11\/Annual-Safety-Meeting-768x280.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>GeoStabilization recently celebrated two safety milestones: our Experience Modification Rate improved from an already industry-leading score of 0.65 to 0.62; and our Rockfall Remediation Technicians have now fully implemented both 2-rope safety training through the Society of Professional Rope Access Technicians (S.P.R.A.T.) and 1-rope safety training through the Professional Climbing Instructors of America (P.C.I.A.).<\/p>\n<p>EMR is an important metric used by the insurance industry to evaluate relative risk of injury and to a company\u2019s employees. The average for any given industry is 1.00. Companies whose employees are at less risk of injury score below 1.00, those that at higher risk score above 1.00. Scores below 0.75 are considered excellent, making GeoStabilization\u2019s current 0.62 rating even more notable.<\/p>\n<p>GeoStabilization\u2019s impressive marks on safety are a result of a formal commitment by all of the members of the GeoStabilization family. In addition to maintaining a full-time, dedicated safety team, investing in daily toolbox talks and weekly, monthly, and quarterly training, GeoStabilization also brings all office staff, management, and superintendents together for a full week -every year- to focus on safety training. This February, 140 GeoStabilization employees from across the continent met in Daytona Beach, Florida, where every member of the family attended over 100 hours of intense, comprehensive training. The meeting includes team building activities, technical training from qualified experts, mandatory drug testing of all employees, and an opportunity for GeoStabilization employees to get reacquainted after being on the road responding to geohazard emergencies during the previous year.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOur annual safety meeting is extremely important. It is our duty to get these guys in here and make sure that they know how to do their jobs correctly, and safely,\u201d <strong>said\u00a0<a title=\"Kim Ruckman-Wright\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geostabilization.com\/ca\/why-gsi\/company\/our-team\/\">Kim Ruckman-Wright<\/a>, GeoStabilization\u2019s Chief Administrative Officer and Head of Safety.<\/strong> \u201cWe are all a family and I want to make sure that we protect our own and -by extension- our clients. We work all over the continent and travel a lot. It\u2019s important to get everyone together to maintain our company culture, and safety is a huge part of that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Specialized training for certain operations is also critical in GeoStabilization\u2019s overall safety program. For the last 18 months, GeoStabilization\u2019s RRTs have been training with SPRAT to master 2-rope systems for rockfall remediation operations that do not require extensive sideslope mobility (like drilling, or installing rock anchors) and with PCIA to master 1-rope systems for operations where sideslope mobility is critical (like rock scaling, where RRTs may need to avoid falling rocks from above). This month marked full implementation of the training plan, and we can now say that GeoStabilization\u2019s RRTs have every required tool available in the commercial training marketplace to keep them safe in their work.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<!-- End Block: acf\/wysiwyg -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GeoStabilization recently celebrated two safety milestones: our Experience Modification Rate improved from an already industry-leading score of 0.65 to 0.62; and our Rockfall Remediation Technicians have now fully implemented both 2-rope safety training through the Society of Professional Rope Access Technicians (S.P.R.A.T.) and 1-rope safety training through the Professional Climbing Instructors of America (P.C.I.A.).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1519,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","tags":[],"news-category":[],"class_list":["post-1499","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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