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FEATURE

SAFETY:

It’s Not a

Program, How to make

It’s a safety more than

just something
Culture you ‘do.’

W a culture, not a program. When each

Working in safety and risk mitigation for
employee is working cohesively as a
more than 25 years, Oscar Rodriguez,
unit, you can limit mistakes by using the
safety manager for MKD Electric, has seen
almost everything you can imagine on the
your team members buy-in to the culture,
job in terms of employee mistakes and
it dramatically helps us lower workplace
accidental injuries. As Rodriguez likes to concept of ‘safety in numbers.’ And, when
say, we’re all human. We make mistakes. injuries by a wide margin.
“Almost every workplace accident or injury As it stands, MKD Electric currently holds
is a repetitive task that someone knew an impressive Experience Modification
the risk of and just missed something Rate (EMR) of 0.62 and Total Recordable
along the way. We know how to prevent Incident Rate (TRIR) of zero. They’ve
some of these issues, but our minds aren’t also never received an OSHA violation
equipped to be on all the time.” since their founding more than 25 years
ago, which is testament to their ongoing
To mitigate this issue, Rodriguez attributes safety culture that continues to exceed the
his success to one thing – making safety industry standard.

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