Black & Veatch Distributed Infrastructure Business Awarded Highest OSHA Star Recognition
March 28 2024 - 10:00AM
Business Wire
Global solutions leader acknowledged for exemplary industry
health and safety practices
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA) has awarded Black & Veatch, a global
leader in critical infrastructure solutions, with its Voluntary
Protection Program (VPP) star status for exemplary worksite safety
achievement.
The VPP Star is OSHA's highest level of recognition of companies
that have employed effective safety and health management systems
and kept injury and illness rates below the Bureau of Labor
Statistics' industry averages.
The OSHA award recognizes health and safety achievements of
Black & Veatch’s telecommunications mobile workforce in New
York and New Jersey.
“This award highlights the value that Black & Veatch places
on its people — from employee-owners to subcontractors — and our
core value of ensuring everyone makes it home safely,” said John
Johnson, vice president for Black & Veatch’s environment,
safety, health and sustainability practice. “By creating safe
working conditions, distributed infrastructure projects stay on
time and on budget, and our clients and the communities they serve
reap the benefits.”
OSHA employs strict safety guidelines to keep U.S. workers safe,
and companies honored with a VPP Star not only meet basic
requirements but also exercise health and safety protocols above
industry standards. Black & Veatch’s protocols include a
behavior-based safety program, feedback that engages subcontractors
to ensure best practices, and the company’s “people matter most”
safety program, which includes targeted training sessions aimed at
encouraging safe behaviors.
“Black & Veatch is the first company in their industry to
achieve VPP Star. Their accomplishment shows that a comprehensive
safety and health program is essential in all businesses, and
critical in high-risk industries,” said Richard Mendelson, OSHA
regional administrator. “An effective program can be implemented in
the most challenging workplaces when worker safety and health is a
core value of the company.”
Contact Black & Veatch for more information.
Editor’s Notes:
- OSHA's VPP Program works with employers committed to worker
safety and health to prevent workplace fatalities, injuries and
illnesses. VPP programs bring company management, site employees
and OSHA together to work proactively to focus on hazard prevention
and control, worksite analysis, training, management commitment and
worker involvement to prevent fatalities, injuries and
illnesses.
About Black & Veatch
Black & Veatch is a 100-percent employee-owned global
engineering, procurement, consulting and construction company with
a more than 100-year track record of innovation in sustainable
infrastructure. Since 1915, we have helped our clients improve the
lives of people around the world by addressing the resilience and
reliability of our most important infrastructure assets. Follow us
on www.bv.com and on social media.
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