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THE DAVEY BULLETIN
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July/August 2021
ZERO INCIDENTS AWARDS FOR SAFETY-FOCUSED R/C CREWS
Having a mindset focused on daily safety practices and
education helped several Residential/Commercial (R/C)
services offices earn a 2020 0.0 Total Recordable Incident
Rate (TRIR) Award.
Twenty-seven Davey R/C operations earned a 2020
award for having achieved a Total OSHA Recordable
Incident Rate of 0.0 for the year. The award is bestowed
by executive leadership in R/C services and recognizes
offices for achieving an incident-free safety record for
the calendar year.
Dave Balint, district manager, Wilmington office, said
safety starts every morning when employees arrive
at the yard and continues throughout the day. "It's a
mindset," Balint said. "I've been here 30 years. It's been
instilled in me, and I instill it in my crews. The day I hire
people, I'm frank and tell them if they won't work safe,
they won't last a day here."
Balint credits the leadership of his two assistant district
managers, Mike Hadley and Jason Gaskill, for the
success of his crews. Hadley leads daily safety briefings,
weekly safety meetings with the entire office, and
follows up on everyone's Davey Career Development
Program (CDP) booklets.
"The CDP booklets give the crew members guidance
A total of 27 U.S. Residential/Commercial services offices
achieved a 0.0 Total Recordable Incident Rate in 2020.
SAFETY
