2025 CSE A AWA RDS


Honoring Safety Excellence


AGC of California Recognizes Winners of 2025 Construction Safety Excellence Awards Competition


BY CAROL EATON


Safety Excellence Awards (CSEA), in partnership with HammerTech. Te prestigious annual awards event was held on October 9, 2025 at the Grand Hyatt Indian Wells in conjunction with CONSTRUCT 2025, AGC of California’s annual networking and professional development conference. Te CSEA luncheon drew a crowd of several hundred construction executives, safety professionals, and student chapter members to see leading California construction companies and individuals honored for safety excellence. AGC of California President-Elect Ryan Auker-


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man, Griffith Company, helped kick off the safety awards and welcomed attendees while offering a few comments on safety in the industry. “Our goal as an industry and as individuals will


always be to ensure that every employee returns home safely to their family,” Aukerman comment- ed. “Together, AGC of California and our member


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CALIFORNIA CONSTRUCTOR NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2025


GC of California recently recognized the best in safety in the California construction industry with the 38th annual Construction


companies play a vital role in elevating the con- versation about the importance of safety. We want every person on every job site to feel supported both mentally and physically. Because safety is more than just PPE and pre-task plans. It’s about mental health too. Te truth is we cannot fully achieve one without the other.” Aukerman added, “Over the past several years,


AGC of California has launched multiple initiatives to raise awareness about the importance of mental health in the workplace. Year after year, these efforts have played a vital role in helping our industry recognize and address the very real mental health challenges connected to construction. And together, we can continue building an industry where safety means protecting the whole worker: body and mind.” 2025 AGC of California Safety & Health Council


Chair Devin Caringella, safety and health director with Clark Construction, provided opening remarks at the awards luncheon along with Doug Rubingh, chief sales officer with CSEA partner safety sponsor, HammerTech. Keynote speaker Deborah Ostreicher,


Some of the sponsors, winners, and finalists of AGC of California’s 2025 Construction Safety Excellence Awards gathered at the 38th annual Awards Luncheon at the Grand Hyatt Indian Wells on October 9. Companies that are represented in this group include, left to right Blach, Granite, SKANSKA, NOVA Group, Field Control Analytics (Gold sponsor), Murray Company, ISEC Superintendent of the year, ISEC, Hensel Phelps, Hensel Phelps Foreman of the year, HammerTech (Presenting Sponsor), Clark Construction, and Aldridge Electric.


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