Seven INTREN Departments Reach One Year Without Incident by Embracing Safety Culture

UNION, Ill., March 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- In the past seven months, INTREN has documented seven departments who have reached one year without any significant safety or operational incidents, a rare milestone within the energy industry.

"The performance success we are experiencing is a result of listening to field and office employees, then implementing common sense measures developed together to create a safer work environment," said Director of Safety and Quality Tim Ayers. "We are turning our long-held INTREN vision into a safety culture that can be witnessed on our jobsites from coast to coast."

Starting with communication, INTREN has successfully improved crew members' interactions on the jobsite and throughout the company. Changes were made to reduce the size of safety meetings to increase engagement and focus on specific work-type challenges, as well as establish a streamlined approach for crew members to collaborate and execute on innovative ideas. The daily job brief was improved using our employees' ideas to create more open conversations about jobsite hazards and an ability to list barriers they plan to use.

INTREN also developed a more detailed and targeted safety training matrix that identifies three critical aspects:

• INTREN-developed
• Customer-specific
• OSHA-required

In 2016, we implemented our new Safety Net audit tool, which incorporates our list of industry-wide issues we need to be focused on to ensure work is completed in the safest manner and at the highest quality. This new tool allows easy entry of all our findings with an ability to run and share reports that target our improvement needs real time.

"It is certain that no one change has created this type of performance; rather, it's the culmination of all our initiatives that has helped us get to this point," said Executive Vice President of Operations and Business Development Matthew Turk. "By listening to our employees' needs and fulfilling them, our entire company has embraced our safety culture."

About INTREN
For 29 years, INTREN has been an innovative solution partner, dedicated to building and maintaining the infrastructure of the energy industry. Through an unwavering commitment to safety, integrity, customer focus and employee empowerment, the company has succeeded in offering turnkey services to a long list of satisfied clients. As an industry leader, INTREN is proud to serve many of the nation's foremost utility companies, private contractors and developers, municipalities and cooperatives. For more about INTREN, visit INTREN.com.

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