Safety Commitment
AT Oregon Electric Group, we know that safety is everyone's responsibility. Safety transcends job titles. Each individual needs to make a personal commitment to working safely, always. To encourage this type of personal committment, we try to help our people understand that their actions at work not only affect Oregon Electric Group as a company, but they also affect their families and personal lives as well. Everyone has someone who is counting on them to come home from work safely, and by reinforcing safety on a deeply personal level, employees are less apt to take unsafe shortcuts, or "just this once" chances.
We hold our sub-contractors and suppliers to the same high levels of accountability. We continue to use our expertise to help raise the safety awareness of the companies that work for us.
Oregon Electric Group's philosophy of Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) provides a framework to maintain an Incident and Injury Free Environment (IIFE) with Zero Impact to Production (ZIP). One of our core values is "being proactive and adapting wtih a positive attitude to needed change." We recognize that there is always room for improvement, and that we cannot become complacent. This means we are always looking for a safer, more efficient way to do our tasks.
At Oregon Electric Group we never feel "our job is done" when it comes to safety.
Jeff Thiede
President
Oregon Electric Group
safety innovations
As a leader in the industry, Oregon Electric Group continues to seek-out innovative ideas to improve the safety of employees and fellow craftsmen. We challenge everyone (from electricians to executives) to recognize potential hazards and openly communicate solutions with the company. Our greatest safety concepts have come from our copany's most valued assets ... our employees.
Recent Safety Projects and Improvements:
December 2008 - Quarterly Field Leadership Training
Nearly 200 OEG field and office employees met to discuss their roles as leaders in the field and industry, as well as leaders of site-safety. Revisions and additions to current safety procedures and programs were highlighted and prepared employees for implementation. A new safety challenge was announced.
November 2008 - Skansa Top 40 Fall Prevention Competition
Top 40 companies, including OEG, presented concepts for new and/or improved devices/techniques that will improve workers' safety when working at heights. The goal is to eliminate all falls across all contruction markets.
2008 - Implementation of Required Leadership Training
Beginning in mid-2008, Oregon Electric Group rolled-out its' plans of implementation for Required Safety Leadership Training program. All foremen level and above employees are now required to attend quarterly training sessions in order to work on OEG projects. The training includes safety policy and programs, as well as operational updates.
2008 - Introduction of Safety Representative
OEG has expanded the Safety Department by adding the new position of Safety Representative. The SR is responsible for branch and site location safety trainings and inspections.