BUILDING TOGETHER April 2019 Residential Home and Health | Grand Rapids, MI
Upcoming Events May 6-10 | Tulip Time Register to walk in a parade! May 27 | Memorial Day E&V Holiday - Closed June 5 | Safety Meeting E&V Warehouse June 5 | Blood Drive E&V Parking Lot
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Slips, Trips, & Falls: Remember, in order to reduce the risk of slips and trips, you should always pay attention to your surroundings and walk at a pace suitable to the surface you are on and the task you are performing! BUILDINGTOGETHER | April 2019
HOW FAR WE’VE COME (AND GONE)! TONY ROUSSEY CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER How far we’ve come: I was asked to focus on safety for this article as we have just put the final touches on another awesome, 6th annual, Alive 365 Safety Week! It was a smash hit with our employees, trade partners, clients and others in the industry, such as MIOSHA. They participated in free trainings and a symposium that was, according to many, our best yet! In those six years, we filled nearly 1,300 training seats from 75 different companies! Our symposium has had over 1,000 people in the industry attend from 351 companies. Thank you to the team that made this event even better than previous ones, which is saying a lot! Here at E&V, we are a couple weeks from an incredible 12 years with no lost time injuries, and God willing, we can do so for another twelve, or more! Also, we are just a few months away from celebrating an amazing 4,500 days without a lost time injury!
as well. In the past month or so, our Safety Leadership Team of Scott Wondergem, Macky Lynn and I traveled to Long Beach, California, to the National ABC convention where we attended a black tie event and received the highest safety award presented, the Pinnacle Award! Only FOUR companies nationwide, out of 21,000 members, have achieved this award level! Wow! Now that is something we can all be proud of! Although we celebrate those accomplishments, let us remember, at the end of the day, it is not about the awards and milestones. It’s about the safety of everyone on our team. Like an athlete or sports team, the awards come if you practice really hard every day, commit yourself to being the best and never give up on the quest for perfection. In the case of safety, that quest lessens the chance of someone getting hurt. That is why, at E&V, we do safety the way we do! We strive to keep every employee, trade partner or anyone visiting our project sites safe. Thank you all for doing your part!
How far we’ve gone: E&V continues to be a recognized leader in safety in not only the West Michigan construction industry but nationally
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