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>> Chris Reefer, Regional Safety Manager.

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A lot of what I do is overseeing
the work by our site coordinators.

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We've got eight different site coordinators.

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I follow up making sure they're doing the
inspection, doing the training that we need

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to have done for each of our employees.

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When I arrive on a job, I
usually get with a superintendent,

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let them know that I'm here;
I'm going to do an inspection.

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The biggest thing is to identify
the hazards of the job.

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There's a lot of hazards
when you work construction.

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And some of the things that we can
do is you know train our employees

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to identify the same hazards we do so
that they act like safety people for us.

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So we have a good trained employee then
we're going to have a good safe jobsite.

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Some of the basic precautions
that you know you'll find

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on any construction site are
hardhats, safety glasses, [inaudible].

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If we're working at heights, we always
wear fall protection at six feet.

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Depending on the job you're doing, what
tools you're using depends on what kind

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of safety requirements or safety
equipment you're going to wear so.

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In my day to day, a lot of times I'm on
a different job each day so I really got

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to understand what work's going on that day,

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talk to all the supervisors,
see what they're plan is.

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And the more you get to know the people
that are out there working the better it is

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to convey your message to them because if
you don't know them, you're just some guy

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from Pittsburgh coming out to
do a safety inspection alright?

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So you really have to know the people,
know what job they're doing to be able

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to identify you know the hazards out there.

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Typically, come out for the
safety meeting in the morning,

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this morning we had a safety meeting,

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after the safety meeting we have individual
task meetings each supervisor gives,

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I attend one of those, add as much
as I can to the end of the meeting

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and then you know just start looking
around, identifying the hazards,

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making sure everybody's prepared for
what they're going to do that day.