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At Mike Moore & Sons Construction Ltd., safety has been a number one priority since the company’s inception. Moore and his wife Fern, the company’s chief financial officer and office administrator, will be officially recognized for their efforts during the chairman’s dinner at the upcoming annual conference of the Ontario General Contractors Association (OGCA).
At Mike Moore & Sons Construction Ltd., safety has been a number one priority since the company’s inception.
“My employees are like family,” says president Michael Moore. “I wouldn’t want to see them take risks or get hurt while doing their jobs.”
Moore and his wife Fern, the company’s chief financial officer and office administrator, will be officially recognized for their efforts during the chairman’s dinner at the upcoming annual conference of the Ontario General Contractors Association (OGCA).
The two will receive the 2011 Doug Chalmers award for safety, presented annually to an individual or group, member company or association that has made significant contributions to the advancement of occupational health and safety in the construction industry.
“We are thrilled to win such an award,” Moore said.
“I have known Doug Chalmers for many years and of his contributions to safety.” Moore said his firm’s safety director, Bob Ryckman, should be congratulated as well as he has worked “tirelessly” on the OGCA safety committee as well as other committees.
Founded in 1989, the Sault Ste. Marie company is one of the leading general contractors in northern Ontario. It operates in the industrial, commercial and institutional sectors of the industry, providing a wide range of services.
The number of employees averages between 35 and 45, depending on the season.
As of Aug. 27, the firm had worked 688,646 manhours over the last 13 years without a lost-time injury.
The company says its full-time safety director “keeps things in check and develops new controls, policies and processes that allow us to maintain an impeccable safety record.
“We work with owners, subtrades and partners to see that everyone involved from management to labourer is trained and educated to the best of their ability. When it comes to the safety of our workers, we don’t follow the industry, we lead it.”
Mike Moore & Sons is the only general contractor in northern Ontario to be part of the OGCA’s safety program since its inception in 2001. The firm is currently part of the veterans’ safety group.
In 2006, the firm signed onto the CEO (chief executive officer) health and safety leadership initiative charter headed by Duncan Hawthorne, president and CEO of Bruce Power The initiative called on top Canadian business executives to reaffirm their commitment to workplace health and safety.
Mike Moore & Sons twice has been recognized by the Canadian Construction Association (CCA) for its efforts in this area, winning the association’s national safety award and the Gordon M. Vipond memorial trophy in 2006 and then again in 2010, one of only three companies in Canada to do so and the only one to score twice within four years.
As well, the firm has won the Sault Ste. Marie Construction Association’s health and safety award for three consecutive years, in 2006, 2007 and 2008 and the Sudbury Construction Association’s zero -frequency award from 2003 to 2007.
“Without my superintendents’ and employees’ commitment to safety, none of our awards would be possible,” Moore said.
Highlights of the firm’s safety program include mandatory subtrade and supplier safety indoctrination and prequalification, monthly safety meetings with all senior management, safety representatives and invited employees, quarterly all-employee safety meetings and weekly site safety inspections and monthly inspections/audits by upper management or another superintendent.
The program also provides for mandatory employee training in such areas as WHMIS, fall arrest, scaffold erection and propane handling, weekly on-site toolbox talks, an incentive and rewards program, employee safety surveys and an employee safety committee.
Moore said the firm does not look at health and safety “as just another jobsite task, but rather as a culture to be promoted within the company and within the industry.”
The OGCA award is named in honour of Sarnia contractor Doug Chalmers, the founder of Doug Chalmers Construction Ltd. and a former chair of OGCA, the Sarnia Construction Association and the Council of Ontario Construction Associations. Chalmers has served on numerous industry safety committees.
The Chalmers Award will be presented on Oct. 15 in San Francisco, Calif.
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