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That's our biggest challenge right now,
but the employees that we hire are really
intelligent. Once we instruct them on
how to do something, they pick up on it
pretty quick, so it's easy to train them. I
made a point of telling them at the dinner
that it's all about how they perform their
jobs. I can't be there with them every
second of the day, so I try to train them
properly, then it's up to them to do things
the way they were trained to keep them
from getting hurt."
"Russ takes his job very seriously,"
says Tom Kenley, community and
media relations, Rogers Group. "He has
a commitment to safety that translates
into how the people working at that
plant are committed to safety. They
have safety meetings at the beginning
of every single shift. They discuss
company memos addressing injury
alerts and near misses at other plants.
Those are reviewed face to face with
the employees. They also discuss what's
going on at the plant that day. If anyone
will be visiting, they discuss where
that person will be, the time frame,
and things to look out for. If they are
expecting any unusual activity, they will
review that so that everyone is aware of
what's going on."
One way Whites Creek has continued
to maintain its safety record is through
the use of safety audits. Rogers Group
put together a safety committee formed
of hourly employees from all the
quarries in the region. The committee
gathers at one quarry location each
month to walk the whole plant. They
look for anything that might cause an
accident or allow someone to get hurt
and take a picture of it. Once the audit is
finished, the committee sits down with
the corporate safety manager, the plant
A wheel loader handles the loading of all customer trucks, which range in size from pickups to large
rock trucks.
Photo
courtesy
of
Rogers
Group
Inc.
