CREW360 is you. It empowers every person, on every job, to take safety in their own hands. A strong safety culture starts in the field, and we trust everybody we work with to have each other's backs. We encourage you to speak up, look out for one another, and lead every task with a safety-first mindset. CREW360 starts with boots on the ground—yours.
Our first CREW360 group came up with the name and logo for this initiative.
Mitch is a Field Engineer based in Utah, and was nominated as a CREW360 All Star by multiple members of the Safety Steering Team for always having a Safety First mindset.
To Mitch, "Safety is having a mental surety that I will not be getting hurt at work today. Just because you made it home unscathed doesn’t mean the job site was safe that day. True safety culture revolves around everyone going above and beyond to properly mitigate hazards or harmful situations, allowing for true confidence in doing one's work without getting harmed."
Once a month, personnel from projects across the country meet to talk about our safety culture. The team is made up of a combination of craft and staff employees in various roles throughout the company, with members rotated in and out to continuously bring fresh ideas and perspectives.
Our safety journey is never done. We create Continuous Improvement Teams, CITs, to identify and address areas we can improve our safety behaviors.
SAW walks should be seen positively, as a way for the entire team to come together and identify safety concerns on site – they are NOT an inspection or audit. By proactively identifying safety concerns as a team, we’re able to prevent injuries by implementing controls and awareness. The SST also uses this information to share best practices with other project teams across the country.
The key to CREW360’s success is participation, so we reworked how morning briefings were run to generate more engagement from the crews. Held at the start of each shift, when an employee joins later, or a significant change occurs, these should have active participation from the entire team. Now, briefings get into more specifics, including scopes, tasks, assigned duties, and time requirement. Speak up!
Our third team helped the company transition from hard hats to the safer helmets, staying ahead of where the industry is headed. The decision was based on a significant amount of research proving helmets to be a superior option for keeping our crews safe, and began its rollout in 2023. All crews on new jobs from this point on are required to wear an approved helmet.
An internal survey found 38% of employees agreed with the statement of “risks are overlooked to get the work done.” To address this, the team created a training to reinforce the company’s expectations of always having a safety-first mentality. The goal is to instill proactive and preventive thinking to everybody on our teams, recognizing hazards ahead of time and ensuring everybody participates in critical safety processes.
While not directly a part of the CREW360 program, it’s good to familiarize yourself with the STCKY (Sh!t That Can Kill You) wheel. The goal is to identify the most extreme hazards on site to ensure controls are in place and prevent serious injuries or death. When we all work together, we can stop the STCKY.
There’s always somebody nearby who has participated in an SST, don’t hesitate to reach out for project support!
