SAFETY AWARDS


Focus on reducing stress if you want to see health premiums go down.” Additional speakers and/or awards


presenters included AGC of California President Mike Mencarini, Unger Construction Company; Jennifer Garcia, Reyes Construction, 2017 Chair of the Safety & Health Council and Master of Ceremonies; Richard Howell, Swinerton Builders, 2017 Vice Chair; and Mike Ruzek, Herzog Contracting Corp., 2017 2nd


Vice Chair of the Safety & Health Council.


2017 AGC Construction Safety Excellence Award Winners – Additional Award Categories Several individuals and companies


received awards in the Additional Award Categories of the Construction Safety Excellence Awards program this year, including the following:


 Harry Eckstein Safety Profes- sional of the Year Award


 Safety on a High Hazard Project


– Christopher Morgan, Griffith Company.


 Safety Efforts of a Project Team Safety Awards Judges


A panel of seven individuals representing various industry and educational sectors served as finalists judges in the AGC of California Safety Awards of Excel- lence for 2017. They included:  Richard Thompson, NCCCO  Gerry McEwen, Garrett/Mosier Insurance Services, Inc.


 Kaila Krichmar, ehs Interna- tional, Inc.


 Kevin Thompson, Cal-OSHA Reporter


 Alan Coppola, Travelers  Claude Fiske, Retired  Carleton Emerson, Travelers


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– Myers & Sons Construction, LP for Route 101 Calabasas Precast Panel Roadway Rehabilitation project.


Chris Morgan – Safety Professional of Year Christopher Morgan, Safety Director of Griffith Company, Brea, is the


AGC/Harry Eckstein Safety Professional of the Year. Named in honor of Guy F. Atkinson Company’s former safety director,


Harry Eckstein, the prestigious award reflects the safety knowledge and experience, the quality and effectiveness of the award winner’s company safety program, as well as the leadership quality and performance displayed by the individual. With 18 years’ experience working as a safety professional, Morgan initially


joined Griffith Company in 2012 after previously consulting with the company as an insurance professional. His arrival at Griffith immediately had a positive impact on their safety performance, cutting incident rates in half initially and improving upon them year over year since. Morgan quickly moved to integrate safety considerations into management


functions, prioritizing what management was already doing for themselves and incorporating safety into those activities. He helped innovate several unique programs at Griffith, including a penalty policy that replaced prior “three strikes” rules. Morgan helped Griffith increase electronic reporting, and along with a single contractor built the initial version of Safety Mojo software for incident reporting. Within three months, Griffith Company decided to build the software “Safety Mojo” due to its successful traction in the organi- zation and value potential within the industry. Morgan has become a strong industry advocate for electronic safety management in addition to his role managing sales and features updates in the Safety Mojo business unit he created. Active within AGC of California as well as other


industry organizations, Morgan has spoken at AGC meetings both in California and at the national level.


Christopher Morgan, Griffith Company, is 2017 Harry Eckstein Safety Professional of the Year.


 Individual Safety Effort of a Project Superintendent – Steve Schaefer with Myers & Sons Construction, LP.


– Myers & Sons Construction, LP, for Colorado River Aqueduct (CRA) Sand Trap Infrastructure Reconstruction.


AGC of California’s First Place Construction Safety Excellence


Award winners include:  Building Division Under 300,000 worker hours – Unger Construction Co.


 Unique Safety Application – Myers & Sons Construction, LP for Early Action Barrier System. Awards were also presented in three


occupational categories – Building, Heavy/Civil/Highway and Specialty Contractor – and were organized by the number of work hours completed during 2016. Winners in these categories are outlined below.


 Heavy/Civil/Highway Division Under 300,000 worker hours – Herzog Contracting Corp.


 Heavy/Civil/Highway Division 300,001-500,000 worker hours – NOVA Group, Inc.


 Specialty Contractor Division Under 500,000 worker hours – Monterey Mechanical Co.


 Specialty Contractor Division 500,001-1 million worker hours – B.T. Mancini Co., Inc.


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