The Keystone Chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) announced the recipients of its 2020 Safety Training & Evaluation Process (STEP) Awards and recognized its 2020 OSHA Partners on Sept. 15 in celebration of National Safety Week.
Representatives from several ABC Keystone member companies virtually attended the ABC Keystone Safety Awards presented by Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman and had the opportunity to hear directly from Dale Glacken, compliance assistance specialist, Harrisburg area office, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
The anchor of ABC's Safety Awards program is a national model called STEP. STEP is a safety benchmarking and improvement tool that is designed to improve safety performance among construction industry participants regardless of company size or type of work. The goal of the program is to provide an organized approach to analyze and further develop a company's safety and loss prevention.
Participating companies score their level of achievement for each component on a weighted point scale and document their incident rates (total recordable incident rate - TRIR - and experience modification rate - EMR). Companies receive a recognition level of Diamond, Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze or Participant based on this data.
In the 2020 STEP Awards, recipients are as follows. Wickersham Construction and Engineering Inc., Lancaster, received Platinum level recognition. Gold honorees include Benchmark Construction Company Inc., Brownstown; CLARK Inc., Paradise; Commonwealth Fire Protection Company, Leola; Frey Lutz Corporation, Lancaster; Leo Kob Co. Inc., Elizabethtown; Quality Buildings, Lancaster; Paul Risk Construction, Quarryville; EG Stoltzfus Construction, Lancaster; Triangle Refrigeration Company, Leola; and Wohlsen Construction Company, Lancaster.
Companies receiving Silver include CCS Building Group, Willow Street; DenTech Industrial, Denver; John E. Fullerton Inc., Elizabethtown; High Construction Company, Lancaster; Meadow Valley Electric Inc., Ephrata; Paramount Contracting Inc., Lancaster; Smucker Company, Leola; and Warfel Construction Company, East Petersburg.
Bronze honorees include B&B Integrations, Lancaster; C Mechanical Services, Lancaster; Cyprium Solutions Inc., East Petersburg; ESCO Security, Ephrata; J.D. Eckman Inc., Atglen; Flyway Excavating Inc., Mount Joy; Hursh Painting Company Inc., Brownstown; B.R. Kreider & Son Inc. Manheim; Legacy Electrical Services Inc., Manheim; Speedwell Construction Inc., Manheim; Wenrich Painting Inc., Ephrata; H.L. Wiker Inc., Lancaster; and The Witmer Group, Mount Joy.
Also recognized during the event were the 2020 OSHA Partners. According to http://www.OSHA.gov, the 2016-21 OSHA Strategic Partnership Agreement between ABC, OSHA's Harrisburg area office, and the PA/OSHA Consultation Program at Indiana University of Pennsylvania is designed to recognize "the importance of providing a safe and healthful work environment for those employees working in Pennsylvania."
The 2020 OSHA Partners are Benchmark Construction Company Inc.; Frey Lutz Corporation; Arthur Funk & Sons Inc., Lebanon; High Construction Company; Houck Services Inc., Harrisburg; Hursh Painting Company Inc.; Paul Risk Construction; EG Stoltzfus Construction; Warfel Construction Company; H.L. Wiker Inc.; and Wohlsen Construction Company.
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