"The seminar helped me
to re-evaluate how I've
been doing things. It also
gave me insight on how
to make safety more of a
value instead of a priority
and provided me with
tools to help maintain my
new focus. I take safety
very seriously. I consider
my co-workers more like
family than people I work
with and would hate for
any preventable accident
to harm any of us. If being
proactive can prevent
that, it means everything
to me."
– Lenette Crenshaw,
general foreman, Oklahoma
G&E Surgery Utility Account
Pictured above back row,
four in from the right.
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| March/April 2016
The attendees and instructors of the 2016 Davey Personal
Excellence Seminar.
Davey employees from coast to coast and into Canada traveled to blustery
Kent, Ohio, in January to discuss the importance of personal excellence on
the road to safety.
For a day and a half, 40 Davey employees from our diverse service lines and
support groups, including Residential/Commercial, Utility, Commercial Landscape
Services,
Davey Resource Group, Davey Tree Surgery, corporate communications,
the Davey Institute, recruiting, and Davey Canada came together to discuss
the fundamentals of the Davey Personal Excellence Seminar–a vehicle for
progress on Davey's Road to Zero program.
Seminar presenter, Johnny Wilson, manager of field safety support, started
by asking attendees this question: what is your definition of safety?
"At the end of the day everyone goes home safe," was Wilson's answer.
"If we don't do that, we fail as individuals and as a company."
Davey's Road to Zero program was created in 2005 to strengthen the
culture and mindset devoted to safety.
"Road to Zero is a way of life," says Wilson. "Safety must be a value.
Safety cannot be a priority."
After 43 years of service at Davey, Wilson explained that priorities change
but values never change. "Values make up who we are on a personal level,"
says Wilson. "If we make safety a value to live by, we will get closer to our
STRIVING FOR EXCELLENCE IN SAFETY
Manager of Safety Program Support Joe
Engberg leads the seminar.
MY DAVEY
