EMPLOYEE SAFETY
The corporate safety department is ultimately responsible
for employee safety at Davey Tree. Corporate safety
works with operations management to create, implement,
monitor and enforce Davey Tree's safety culture. Every
employee, including management and officers, is held
accountable for upholding the policies and procedures
developed by corporate safety and the Davey Tree risk
management oversight process.
Corporate safety sets the standard for the tree care
industry by ethically reporting all reportable incidents.
Making sure our numbers are accurate is a part of our core
safety values and is another way we lead the industry.
The ultimate incident prevention goal of the company is
zero. On this journey on the road to zero, we established
the following 2015 goals:
3.9 OSHA Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR)
2.5 Lost Time Case (LTC) Rate
EMPLOYEE SAFETY
Each business segment is responsible for focusing
attention and action toward achieving this goal. Business
segments are responsible for reporting safety performance
to Davey Tree leadership each month to measure progress
toward our safety benchmarks and goals. Executive
leadership, general managers and vice presidents also
meet quarterly for safety meetings, and our management
and supervisory personnel throughout North America
must attend three-day safety seminars every three
years. These seminars cover topics, including:
Accident trends and prevention
Training techniques
Team building
Accident investigation
Claims management
Internal cost of insurance
Substance abuse policy
15
OSHA Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR) Lost Time Case (LTC) Rate
Workforce Related Incidents
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
5.59
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
6.12
5.96
5.72
5.70
3.77
3.15
3.36
3.02
2.76
