MARCOR Helps Develop Safety Program

With heavy equipment operators among those most likely to be injured or killed on work sites due to high-risk construction hazards, a leading national environmental contractor is sharing its successful safety training program to help protect others. MARCOR Remediation Inc. is sharing information with others to help develop new “toolbox talks” covering the four main killers of construction workers: falls, electrocutions, struck-by hazards, and caught-in/between hazards. OSHA calls these the “Focus Four” hazards.

An industry organization that creates safety and health training programs for 400,000 members throughout the U.S. and Canada was awarded a Susan Harwood Training Grant from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The grant is being used to design a new safety training program for master instructors, who will then conduct the training sessions at over 200 locations. The grant specifies “the effective use of toolbox talks” as an integral part of the overall program.

MARCOR’s Senior Health and Safety Officer Bruce Lippy, who was instrumental in developing MARCOR’s “Safety Beyond Compliance Program™” and its series of toolbox talks, is also a consultant for the Harwood Grant-funded safety training initiative.

MARCOR credits in part its “Safety Beyond Compliance” program, which reinforces good safety behavior and includes components to evaluate safety performance and track measurable goals, to its excellent reputation in the environmental community.

MARCOR Remediation, a specialty contracting company founded in 1980 with a current staff of 700 and headquarters in Hunt Valley, Md., performs a full range of environmental contracting services. These include industrial cleaning, MRSA decontamination, asbestos and lead hazard abatement, mold remediation, plant/process decommissioning and demolition, soil and groundwater remediation, storage tank management, restorative cleaning work, and many other specialty project types. More information is available at www.marcor.com.