Our Safety Director, Ted Larkin, is a certified master instructor of the OSHA 10 and 30-hour training programs, veteran outreach instructor of the 1926 OSHA construction standards and a medic first instructor. He provides in-house safety training for all our employees that's tailored to the common project types and work scopes that we undertake. Ted then works with Berglund project teams and their subcontractors to develop project-specific preconstruction safety plans that are monitored throughout every project. We complement the top-down aspects of our safety program with bottom-up initiatives that encourage every tradesperson to take ownership of our safety culture. Anyone who enters a jobsite is charged with speaking up if she witnesses an unsafe act — even if it’s uncomfortable. And we celebrate proactive “good catches” where tradespeople find and report potential hazards on projects before they result in incidents. Combining top-down with bottom-up initiatives has led to a company EMR — a standard of jobsite safety — of .47, besting the industry average of 1.0. And it’s led to a highly trained workforce that cares deeply about the health and safety of everyone associated with a Berglund project.