Encore Electric of Lakewood, Colorado, was honored for having the nation’s best construction safety and wellness plan in 2018 by the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC). The association, which oversees the Willis Towers Watson Construction Safety Excellence Awards, an annual ranking of construction safety programs, noted that 57 other companies were also selected as winners for the quality of their safety programs.
"Construction firms have many important obligations to meet in completing projects, but their most fundamental commitment is to ensure the safety of their workers," says Eddie Stewart, the association’s president and president and chief executive officer of Caddell Construction, Montgomery, Alabama. "These award winners have demonstrated the most effective and innovative ways to keep their job sites safe and their workers out of harm's way."
AGC says it selected Encore Electric as this year’s grand prize winner because of its exceptional leadership in safety. Stewart notes that the company was dedicated to the development and implementation of premier safety and loss prevention programs. The company presented outstanding guidance in safety and occupational health management, risk control, safety training, safety program innovation and work site hazard identification and control, Stewart adds.
Stewart says there are multiple winners because the awards are distributed for a number of categories based on the amount and type of work performed. The AGC-Willis Towers Watson Construction Safety Excellence Award winners are selected by a panel of five independent safety professionals within the government, corporate and insurance industries.
Final judging for the awards program took place during the contractors’ association’s annual convention in Denver April 1-4.
“Willis Towers Watson is proud to be an AGC partner in safety and sponsor the AGC’s Construction Safety Excellence Awards, a partnership that began over thirty years ago,” says Mike Fredebeil, the North American director of construction safety for Willis Towers Watson. “Congratulations to all the finalists, the division winners and the grand award winner, Encore Electric, for their commitment to go above and beyond just meeting industry safety standards, raising the bar so that every construction employee will be able to go home every day.”
View entire list of winners here.