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THE DAVEY BULLETIN
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November/December 2025
Q&A: HOW DOES 'FORESIGHT' HELP KEEP US SAFE?
The Bulletin talked with Chris Bosch, director, Health and Safety Utility Solutions,
about a tool to improve safety called 'Foresight'
Q. What is Foresight?
A. Foresight is a tool that is
designed to help our employees
better identify the most critical
and risk-potential conditions
and elements that could lead to
injury. These are the things that
would send an employee home
in a different state than how
they came to work because of
a life-altering or life-ending
injury. That's what Foresight is
designed to help prevent.
Q. How does Foresight work?
A. Foresight is part of the job-planning process. It helps
identify those risk-potential conditions and elements, if
those hazards are present, and what appropriate safeguards
are available and can be used to mitigate those factors.
Using a series of icons, these risks will be conveyed with
images integrated into the job planning and job briefing
materials. These icons will serve as a reminder for
employees during job planning. For example, one icon
shows the image of a person falling, and that is a visual
reminder of fall potential, whether that fall potential is
someone falling from a tree or a bucket. Foresight serves
as a reminder that fall risk is there, and that you need to
plan for that. Beyond that example, Foresight is designed
to remind employees of all the high-energy, severe risks
that our jobs as tree care industry workers expose us to.
Q. Why is Davey using Foresight?
A. For many years, safety professionals in our industry have
focused on reducing the number of safety incidents an
organization may have. What we've realized is that reducing
incident frequency is an excellent goal to continue to strive
for, and at the same time we need to focus on reducing
the severity of incidents as well. What we're looking to do
is to introduce better learning opportunities and draw more
attention to the behaviors that are happening on a daily
basis. And that starts with the awareness of the most critical
life altering or potential life-altering events that can happen
to our colleagues. We have dug into the data of our own
incidents at Davey and identified the six categories where
SAFETY
Davey crews working on the Tampa Electric
account in Florida during a recent job briefing.
Chris Bosch
director, Health and
Safety Utility Solutions
