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OUR GOAL: ELIMINATE AT-RISK BEHAVIOR AND ACHIEVE ZERO INCIDENTS.
Cianbro accepts full responsibility for establishing and maintaining a safe work environment. Our team members have the right to go home each day without injury.
Cianbro involves every team member in planning each activity—no matter how small. By putting safety first and ensuring that risks are eliminated or mitigated, we improve quality and achieve outstanding productivity.
Applying our can-do spirit to safety, Cianbro has solved challenging safety problems by leading the industry in developing procedures, techniques, and equipment to keep our people safe. Cianbro has been nationally recognized for this success.
Cianbro Safety Supervisor Laura Henry
For over 15 years, Laura Henry has watched Cianbro’s Safety Program change and grow. She has also learned to be a suave saleswoman. As a safety supervisor, Laura is responsible for the hefty task of monitoring and implementing Cianbro’s safety policies and procedures. The position requires a broad knowledge base, and the delicate talent of swaying opinion. Laura says it’s all in the approach.
“You can’t come across like you know it all,” she said. “I don’t make the rules, but I do enforce them. Nobody in this company is smarter than us all.”
Laura uses a number of resourceful tactics to help her team members comply with Cianbro’s safety expectations. When approaching a questionable situation, she remembers the other person is the expert. “I’m not going to criticize them,” she said. “Instead, I explore the safety in the form of a question. If they’re doing things right, the answer will come quickly and naturally.”
Sometimes only sheer compassion is needed to remedy a safety issue. “I’m a people-person on a mission,” Laura said. “These team members really mean something to me, and I truly believe in what I do. Therefore, I feel my approach is effective through positive motivation and reinforcement.”
On a deeper level, Laura feels she has a personal responsibility to protect her team members. “It’s up to me to send these people home the same way they came in,” she said. “They may not be brother, father, sister, or cousin to me but they are to somebody else.”
Her biggest challenge lies in educating the newest people on the job site. She encourages them to ask questions about safety procedures, and lets them know when they’ve done things right. “If I can get them to buy it and believe it, they will do it,” she said.
Laura greatly loves her position and her extended Cianbro family. She said you don’t have to expect injuries in the construction business. “You have to take the time to plan and do things right,” she said. “If I can prevent injuries by educating my team and being a resource to them, I’ve truly done my job.”
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