Canyon State Electric (CSE) has signed a contract with the Arizona Division of Occupational Safety and Health (ADOSH) to strengthen the company’s health and safety processes.
The three-year agreement will seek to prevent job site hazards and start the process for OSHA Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) application.
Implementation of a health management system
To reach strategic safety goals, ADOSH is providing Canyon State Electric with training, workshops, webinars, and the implementation of a health management system.
By the end of the agreement, Canyon State Electric will reduce injury, illness, and DART rates by fifteen percent; and implement a safety and health committee.
ADOSH - Canyon State Electric partnership
ADOSH is the expert and we are proud to be in a partnership with them"
“ADOSH is the expert and we are proud to be in a partnership with them,” said Sidney Hawkins, Canyon State Electric’s Safety & Training Manager, adding “Alongside ADOSH, CSE will improve and innovate safety not only within the company, but industry-wide. Our passion for safety does not stop at our doors— it ‘bleeds’ into the entire industry.”
Sidney Hawkins oversees the University of Canyon State Electric, Canyon State Electric’s safety and training program offered to all employees. Since implementing the program, the company has maintained an experience modification rating— used to measure a company’s job site safety with regards to insurance premiums — under .7, thirty percent lower than the industry average.
Advancing the protection of life, health and safety of CSE workforce
Brandon Stowell, CAS Supervisor for ADOSH, is Canyon State Electric’s assigned ADOSH inspector. He said, “CSE already has many of the elements of the ADOSH mission in place. Through this new partnership, CSE and ADOSH will advance the protection of life, health, safety, and welfare of CSE’s workforce.”
Sidney Hawkins adds, “We are already looking beyond VPP. What comes after VPP? That’s what we want.”
