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safety/Learn More About STEP
Learn More About STEP:
The Safety
Training & Evaluation Process (STEP) Program
What’s STEP?
The Safety Training and Evaluation Process (STEP)
program was developed and written by contractors, for contractors.
It provides your company with the following benefits:
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It provides your company
with a structured approach to examine and further develop
your company’s safety and loss prevention program |
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It provides your company
with clear, legitimate, and objective methods to measure your
company’s safety program improvements |
View a PDF of statistics validating the benefits of this program to your company.
The STEP tool is simple to use. There are 20
key safety components; you will be asked to self-evaluate
your safety and health program by answering a number of questions
within those safety areas.
| 20 Key Safety Components |
Management Commitment
Management Policy Statement on Safety
Responsibility for Safety Defined
EMR or Loss Ratio
Safety Budget
Safety Program Goal Setting
Management Supervisory Meetings
Pre-Planning for Job-Site Safety
Employee Participation
New Employee Orientation |
Safety Rules
Employee Safety Training
Safety Tool Box Meetings
Inspections
Supervisory Training
Accident Investigation
Use of PPE
Performance Audit
Substance Abuse Policy
Record Keeping |
| If,
for instance, you look at the heading, "Safety Tool Box
Meetings," you’ll see that a progressive safety-conscious
company does the following: |
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• Meetings
held weekly
• Conducted by supervisors
• Record kept on attendance and topic presented
• Employees participate
• Management attends occasionally |
| Incremental
steps under the same heading yields: |
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• Supervisors
hold meetings at least monthly
• Record kept on attendance and topic presented
Or,
• Safety coordinator or management conducts meetings
with all employees less than once a month
Or,
• No meetings held with employees |
Each safety component area – such as the one shown - provides
you with objective, measurable goals to help improve your safety
and loss program.
The best part of this service is that it helps
you to enhance your company’s safety program – and the
STEP program is FREE!
If you’d like to take the STEP program one
step further and get recognition for your safety achievements, you
can enter both the Chapter and the National ABC Safety Contest.
Depending on the number of points you score, you will be recognized
at a gold, silver or bronze level. Members reaching the gold level
will then be eligible to compete to win ABC Keystone’s overall
Excellence in Construction Safety Award presented at the annual
Excellence in Construction Gala. An award is given to both the top
General Contractor and the top Specialty Contractor. STEP entries
are due in the Spring of the year, so watch your mailbox for deadline
information.
Three more reasons to incorporate a safety culture
within your company:
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Your current employees will
appreciate your care and efforts in fostering a safe work
environment. |
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Your prospective employees
will be able to benchmark the safety culture within your company. |
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Your potential clients will
benefit from your company’s safety performance. |
Take safety to the next level with STEP
Platinum
The STEP Platinum program (Platinum) is designed
to provide special recognition to Gold level STEP members. Applications
for Platinum are included in STEP applications.
| To qualify
for Platinum, a member company has to: |
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1. Receive STEP
Gold two consecutive years;
2. Submit OSHA 300 summary log summarizing OSHA recordables;
3. Submit statement from insurance company that supports STEP
self-evaluation score;
4. Submit application fee. |
Platinum membership provides: Special certificate
of recognition, automatic application for ABC National Safety Award,
and participation in National ABC’s promotional campaign.
Download ABC National’s 2008 STEP Application.
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