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Mar-Apr 16 FINAL

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"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. 14 | 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

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