Safety is everyone’s responsibility at work, at home and at play. At CETCO Drilling Products, we are committed to safety, and it is one of our core business values. Whether our field team visits a jobsite, attends a tradeshow or visits a customer location, we are expected to put safety above all else — no exceptions. We feel it is our duty to inform the job superintendent if we observe unsafe conditions or activity. If your company has one employee or 20,000, safety is everyone’s responsibility and returning home to our loved ones is the goal.
My area of the country has recently seen lots of construction activity. If you have driven in Illinois or the Midwest, you know this firsthand. At a red traffic light recently, I noticed a contractor working on a nearby project. One of the laborers worked in a ditch, not wearing a hard hat, with an excavator operating in the vicinity. On a closer look, I noticed no one on the site had a hard hat on. The potential for a serious injury was high. My conclusion? The employees lacked the proper safety training or the site manager did not enforce the safety rules. Sadly, this type of sight isn’t uncommon.