An Ongoing Milestone of 1500 Days
Tower Systems has a long history of setting the standard for safety in the tower industry, beginning with our company founder, Bill Carlson, making the call to action that resulted in the founding of NATE. This call to action has saved the lives of countless tower technicians over the past 35 years and has served as the foundation of safety within the industry. Because of this, there is a constant burden of pressure to set an example for others in the industry. We proudly work to carry Bill’s legacy forward and to honor the efforts that he and others have made over the years, to carry the torch of safety into the next generation, in hopes of the tower industry finally achieving a year of 0 fatalities as a result of falling from heights.
At Tower Systems, safety is more than having the right policies or checklists; it means having employees who believe and buy into maintaining safety on the jobsite, it’s employees who look out for each other, and supervisors who accept responsibility for safety and refuse to lower the bar of what is acceptable. It means hiring the right people, having the right tools, providing appropriate timelines, and having the full support of management to take whatever steps are necessary to keep our crews safe. It requires complete buy-in from the entire company; it’s a culture of safety. We strive for and demand perfection from our employees with regard to safety, and this applies to every member of our staff, from the boardroom to the top of the tower. Safety is promoted and embraced.
Over the past few years, we have worked to reinvent not just our safety processes and procedures but also to solidify and further develop our safety culture. We work to maintain a proactive safety program that promotes safety in a positive light and recognizes safety efforts that employees make, and it’s working.
This focus on safety has proven to be more effective than we initially imagined. We have recently achieved an ongoing milestone of over 1500 consecutive days without an OSHA reportable incident. Roughly put, that is over 4 years of not a single employee needing to visit an emergency room from a job-site injury. While we don’t broadcast or focus on “Days without Incidents” with our employees, we do track these metrics internally and want to recognize this and, like a proud parent, brag about our crew’s level of performance and consistently looking out for each other.
While we are proud of what we have accomplished over the past 1500 days, we put it to the back of our minds and focus on the future. We continue fine-tuning, advancing training, investing in our employees, and overall, we continue raising the bar for what can be accomplished. I hope this message serves as proof to the tower industry that this level of success is possible with proper investment and this level of success is not luck; it can be achieved by every tower contractor. Never accept that injuries are just part of the job.
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An Ongoing Milestone of 1500 Days
Tower Systems has a long history of setting the standard for safety in the tower industry, beginning with our company founder, Bill Carlson, making the call to action that resulted in the founding of NATE. This call to action has saved the lives of countless tower technicians over the past 35 years and has served as the foundation of safety within the industry. Because of this, there is a constant burden of pressure to set an example for others in the industry. We proudly work to carry Bill’s legacy forward and to honor the efforts that he and others have made over the years, to carry the torch of safety into the next generation, in hopes of the tower industry finally achieving a year of 0 fatalities as a result of falling from heights.
At Tower Systems, safety is more than having the right policies or checklists; it means having employees who believe and buy into maintaining safety on the jobsite, it’s employees who look out for each other, and supervisors who accept responsibility for safety and refuse to lower the bar of what is acceptable. It means hiring the right people, having the right tools, providing appropriate timelines, and having the full support of management to take whatever steps are necessary to keep our crews safe. It requires complete buy-in from the entire company; it’s a culture of safety. We strive for and demand perfection from our employees with regard to safety, and this applies to every member of our staff, from the boardroom to the top of the tower. Safety is promoted and embraced.
Over the past few years, we have worked to reinvent not just our safety processes and procedures but also to solidify and further develop our safety culture. We work to maintain a proactive safety program that promotes safety in a positive light and recognizes safety efforts that employees make, and it’s working.
This focus on safety has proven to be more effective than we initially imagined. We have recently achieved an ongoing milestone of over 1500 consecutive days without an OSHA reportable incident. Roughly put, that is over 4 years of not a single employee needing to visit an emergency room from a job-site injury. While we don’t broadcast or focus on “Days without Incidents” with our employees, we do track these metrics internally and want to recognize this and, like a proud parent, brag about our crew’s level of performance and consistently looking out for each other.
While we are proud of what we have accomplished over the past 1500 days, we put it to the back of our minds and focus on the future. We continue fine-tuning, advancing training, investing in our employees, and overall, we continue raising the bar for what can be accomplished. I hope this message serves as proof to the tower industry that this level of success is possible with proper investment and this level of success is not luck; it can be achieved by every tower contractor. Never accept that injuries are just part of the job.
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