Recently trainers/vendors and BCS field leaders met to discuss the training stations for the BCS 5th Annual Safety Rodeo at their office in Mustang Ridge on December 12 at 7 a.m. The event celebrates the BCS “Best In Class” Safety Culture and dedicates a day to focus on combining Operational Issues and Safety to address and improve hazard controls and jobsite logistics on present jobsites.
The idea comes from Vice President of Safety and HR, Todd Smith’s experience in the Army. “We would hold station training events that were designed to create hands on learning situations for practicing basic soldier skills. I try to keep innovating our training topics so that they reflect safety and operations issues from the field as we identify them. This year for example, we have added a station for Piere Drilling Safety and Concrete Form Systems. Some of our trainers have been with us for five years and are constantly updating their training to make it more interactive,” Smith said.
Trainers are tasked with developing hands-on training that has three to five takeaways or lessons learned. Trainer teams combine vendors, General Contractor representatives, BCS safety team members and BCS field leaders. Workers move between eight different training stations and rotate every 25 minutes. Trainers evaluate the most interactive group and award prizes to the winning group. Major Safety Rodeo event sponsors are Parker Industrial, Marsh McLennan Insurance Agency and Texas Materials.
This year’s stations and their sponsors include:
- Pier Drilling Safety- (Sponsored by Sparta Drilling)
- Silica Control and Tool Safety (Sponsored by Bosch Tools)
- Concrete Safety and Testing (Sponsored by Tex Mix)
- Fall Protection (Sponsored by Falltech)
- Ladder Safety (Sponsored by Walsh Safety Consulting)
- Concrete Form Building and Safety (Sponsored by Alsina)
- Operator Safety (Sponsored by Opifex)
- Carpentry Safety (Sponsored by CMC)
Pat Walsh has been involved as a trainer with the BCS Safety Rodeo for all five years and his ladder safety station is always adding new activities. This year he will discuss a recent ladder fatality, use watermelons to show possible ladder fall injuries and allow workers to climb on several different types of ladders.
Workers start the day with a welcome from OSHA and a stretch flex session and their day ends with a lunch, awards and a gift raffle.
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