Companies grow in two ways – organically, and through mergers/acquisitions.
When one construction company onboards another into their organization, it's essential to make sure safety systems are unified, without steamrolling safety culture. Nick Kakasenko, VP of Health and Safety at Sterling Infrastructure, Inc., joined us to talk about his recommendations for scaling safety as companies grow.
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You just got dropped into a whole different world and it's a tidal wave that comes in into the company. So we let them get a few of their, their basic parks set up. We'll have some interactions with the company like, hey, this is, you know, this is who we are. If you need some support right now, you could give us a call when we'll start engaging with them that way. And we'll just give them maybe about a year so they can get up on their feet. I mean, the last thing you want to do is they're they're doing some basic things, moving the needle. In the right direction. There's no major panic to go in there and say OK, we gotta change all this stuff now and the way we've really. The way we really do it and we it's been successful for us and it might not work in other companies, but it's just kind of that slow transition over and processes and procedures. People can only digest so much information. If you go and I expect you to do this, this, this, this, this, this, this. It's good you're gonna fail. So start off with some, hey, here's your expectations. Let's do some observations and job site safety checklists and outline some of those things. We'll get them all trained up on on doing that and start with there so at least I get some of the basic processes in place, basic understanding of what's of our expectations are. Then we'll start building from that point, getting into some of the planning, getting into better training and folding them into the mix a little bit more too.
