Safety is Patterson & Wilder Const. Co.'s NUMBER ONE concern. The objectives of P&W's safety program are to provide a safe and efficient working environment where personal injury is eliminated and property and equipment damage is minimized. The safety program also contends to educate and train employees in current safety issues and practices as well as provide employees with feedback on their individual performances. Through this program, employees will also receive instruction on record keeping requirements in accordance with OSHA and other recognized standards.
Safety Administrator: Gray Lewis
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Consecutive Year Safety award: NCDOLThe North Carolina Department of Labor recently signed its first partnership with a construction company to promote awareness of workplace safety and health. Patterson & Wilder Construction, which has offices in Newton Grove, Raleigh and Wilmington, and the department signed the agreement in the fall to foster safety in the construction industry. The program officially kicked off at the beginning of 2004. The company specializes in the construction of gas pipelines.
"We believe this is the opportunity for Patterson & Wilder and the utilities industry to present the challenges we face," said Gray Lewis, a company vice president. "This partnership is going to help create an unprecedented line of communication between the industry and NCDOL."
As part of the agreement, NCDOL provides safety and health training for subcontractors and employees. Patterson & Wilder provides training to NCDOL employees on gas pipeline construction.
"Patterson & Wilder is involved in many unique operations, such as excavation under rivers," said Les Kafel, NCDOL bureau chief. "We believe that they are going to be a great source of information for our department and in turn, we will help them protect employees' safety and health."
Other aspects of the alliance include workshops, conferences and participation in NCDOL recognition programs.
In 2002 the construction industry represented 24 percent of the 169 work fatalities, although the 44 deaths reflected
a 13.7 percent drop from the 51 in 2001."Increasing safety among construction workers has been a top priority
for NCDOL," Kafel said. This partnership is just another step in that direction.
Patterson & Wilder Construction Co., Inc. has received the prestigious North Carolina Department of Labor's "Certificate of Safety Achievement" for the past six years.
We are very proud of this accomplishment, especially since it is the sixth consecutive year we have qualified for this honor.
To qualify for an annual safety award a firm must meet the following requirements:
1. It must have had no fatalities during the calendar year for which the award was given.
2. It must have maintained either a perfect safety record for that year, or a lost workday case rate at least 50 percent below the state-wide average for its particular industry group. Lost workday cases are cases of work-related injury or illness that involve days away from work and/or days of restricted work activity.
3. It must have ten or more full-time employees if applying for separate divisions or departments within a firm.
In figuring the incidence rate, the OSHA Log and Summary of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses is used to determine
the number of lost workday cases.
Patterson & Wilder Construction Co., Inc. is a proud 2001 safety award winner in the under 200,000 hours category
for the Arthur T. Everham Safety Award sponsored by the Distribution Contractors Association.
Participation for the award was at its highest level since its inception in 1986. The DCA is continually trying
to improve safety within our potentially hazardous industry through various programs, including this award program.
Patterson & Wilder Construction Co. has recently joined the National Safety Council. The mission of the National Safety Council is to educate and influence society to adopt safety, health, and environmental policies, practices, and procedures that prevent and mitigate human suffering and economic losses arising from preventable causes.
As a part of Patterson & Wilder’s employment procedures, an applicant is required to undergo a pre-employment alcohol and drug screening that is conducted by a physician or technician designated by Patterson & Wilder. Any offer of employment that applicant receives from Patterson & Wilder is contingent upon, among other things, satisfactory completion of this screening.
As a condition of continuing employment, employees shall also be required to undergo periodic, random alcohol and drug screenings.
DER (Drug and Alcohol Program) Administrator: Cathy Cavender
“Operator Qualification” is a new regulatory requirement that has been placed on the operating companies by the Department of Transportation’s Office of Pipeline Safety.
The regulation has been scrutinized and revised many times since its beginning in 1987, but the end result is that gas companies are required to qualify their operations and maintenance personnel by October 28, 2002. Since P&W’s company employees are essentially contract employees to the gas company, we must also qualify our employees.
P&W’s Operator Qualification Plan requires a re-certification every three years.
Patterson & Wilder uses the following companies to track Operator Qualifications:
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OQ Administrator: Gray Lewis
| 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | |
| Total Hours Worked | 220,484 | 351,343 | 220,539 | 134,953 | 306,887 | 296,317 | 313,555 | 517,728 |
| Experience Modification Ratio | 0.84 | 0.8 | 0.71 | 0.70 | 0.83 | 0.77 | 0.76 | 0.96 |
| Lost Workday Injury Incident Rate | 0.00 | 1.71 | 0.91 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.67 | 0.92 | 0.39 |
| OSHA Recordable Injury Incident Rate (Industry Average 7.8) |
0.00 | 2.28 | 4.53 | 5.93 | 1.96 | 1.35 | 1.84 | 0.39 |
OSHA Statistics Administrator: Gray
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