Safety

At Shawmut, we charge every person, from field personnel to office staff to our executive leadership team with the mission of promoting, ensuring, and driving a culture of safety. We are committed to creating safe and injury-free environments everywhere we work by going above and beyond industry standards in all aspects of safety. With our policies and this kind of culture of safety, our excellent safety modification rating should come as no surprise. Ensuring that every person working for or with Shawmut returns home safely is our number one goal, every day, on every job.     

• Shawmut conducts safety training for all employees and subcontractors

• We create site specific safety plans taking into account unique aspects of project

• We have a national network of Shawmut certified subcontractors with exceptional safety ratings

• Our superintendents are 30-hour OSHA trained and CPR and first aid certified

• Our safety modification rate, .68 for 2009, is consistently among the best in the country 

• We consistently perform spot safety inspections on all jobsites

• We enforce a zero-tolerance policy for unsafe practices

• Our safety policies go above and beyond OSHA standards