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Trench Shoring Scores Service ‘Touchdown’ On Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Project
It’s not often that a football playoff
season and an order for steel plates converge. Tis was the case last winter during
the 2019 NFL playoffs, when Trench Shoring Company received a call from Calex Engineering. Calex was involved in the remodeling/construction project underway at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum project. Te Los Angeles Rams were
scheduled to play the Dallas Cowboys at the LA Coliseum on January 12, 2019. Since the aging Coliseum would be undergoing renovations directly after the game, Calex requested multiple truckloads of Trench Shoring Company’s Trench Top™ Steel Trench Plates to protect the surface of the Coliseum floor during the renovation project. As Calex dispatcher Evan Steen
noted, “We had unique challenges with the LA Coliseum project involving specific start dates with tight schedules around the playoffs. Time was our biggest challenge.” Te delivery timing of the steel
plates depended on whether or not the Rams won their Coliseum game with the Cowboys and whether their next potential rival – the New Orleans Saints – also won their game. If the
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Understanding the above, then your
leading indicators would be: 1. Training workers to expectations, policies, procedures and outcomes.
2. Review of JHA’s, tailgate meetings and training assessments.
3. Review of work area observations by foreman, superintendents, etc.
4. Evaluation of feedback from observations.
5. Reporting of near misses (willingness of organization to be transparent).
6. Evaluation of regularity of crew
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Trench Shoring Company set to offload trench plates at the LA Memorial Coliseum after the Rams beat the Cowboys in the divisional round of the 2019 playoffs.
Rams had lost against the Cowboys, the plates order would be delivered bright and early on the morning of Monday, January 14. On the other hand, if the Rams
won but the Saints lost, Trench Shoring Company was instructed to cancel the January 14 order, because the Rams would be playing another game at the Coliseum the following weekend. Tis meant rescheduling the plates for Monday, January 21. In both scenarios, their trucks needed to
visits by safety professionals, the CEO, superintendents and supervisors.
How do you recognize employees for positive safety performance?
I believe the greatest value is
created when workers are recognized by individuals in authority that they respect. So, I am a big proponent that the regular site visit by the CEO is an opportunity to recognize the safety efforts and challenges of individual workers and teams. While I’m not big on trinket type incentives, I do realize that value can be created by rewarding workers with company logoed items
be fully loaded with trench plates by 5 a.m. even if they wouldn’t be needed on that particular day. As it turned out, both the Rams
and Saints won, so the next playoff game between the Rams and Saints took place in New Orleans. Te steel plates order was successfully scheduled for delivery on Monday, January 14 with Trench Shoring Company trucks fully loaded at 5 a.m. Steen said that custom-focused
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What program or policy has had the biggest effect on safety at your company?
I don’t know that I would say a
single program or policy has had the greatest effect. I believe being an adaptable safety professional – one who is generally inquisitive, respects the perspective of the worker, and who regularly seeks understanding as to why something is working or not – is one that will be successful. Success is measured by the number
of individuals that become self-suffi- cient in safety!
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