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May/June 2024
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THE DAVEY BULLETIN
and monitor safety. Our employees should continue to
see more encouragement from their managers to share
close-call communications and generally have more of an
open dialogue about near misses and other events with
their teammates.
Like any athlete preparing to perform at a high level, we want
our employees to have resources available to ensure they
can achieve peak performance, no matter what job they're
doing. We will also continue to introduce more innovative
and proactive approaches to improving our employees'
safety, such as our Industrial Athlete Program, Hinge Health
initiatives through our group health offerings, and updates
to our companywide stretching program. All these programs
and initiatives are implemented with the best interests of
our employees' health in mind. They are completely focused
on improving the work experience and overall safety of our
employees, using proactive strategies and programs to
prevent incidents.
By better defining and reorganizing our existing teams within
the health and safety department, and creating new support
groups and roles, these strategic changes will allow the
safety team to keep pace with the scale and complexity of
our growing company and continue to provide exceptional
safety support to all Davey operations.
PERSONNEL ANNOUNCEMENTS
Don Roppolo has been promoted to
vice president, health and safety
operations support. Roppolo joined
Davey as a crew leader in 2008 through
The Care of Trees acquisition. After
holding various roles from foreman to
regional trainer, he joined the recruiting
team in 2011, then the education and
ROPPOLO PROMOTED TO VICE PRESIDENT,
HEALTH AND SAFETY OPERATIONS SUPPORT
training department in 2016. Roppolo
most recently served as director,
arborist training. He earned a bachelor's
degree in agriculture with an emphasis
in urban forestry and a master's
degree in natural resources with a
concentration in urban forestry from the
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
Don Roppolo
Health and
safety department
