Mark Semonsick, of Lockton Companies, Margarita Gutierrez, of Liberty Mutual, and Chris Voltz, held a Safety 2012 session titled, "Prairie Waters OCIP, Aurora Colorado: A Case Study of Success." This 5-year water transmission and treatment project involved nine contractors, had a completion cost of $650 million and included 35 miles of 60" pipeline. In addition, it spanned several federal, state, county and city jurisdictions as well as various environmental factors. Despite the scope of the project, safety was optimal as its lost-time incident rate was .44, compared to the industry rate of 2.0 to 2.6; and its recordable incident rate was 2.02, compared to industry rate of 3.5 to 4.6.
The speakers credited these best practices as key success factors:
- OCIP (owner controlled insurance program) safety addendum, which set safety expectations and included items such as full-time safety personnel, mandatory safety orientations and solid stop-work and unsafe worker removal authority;
- a claims consultant and an injury counselor;
- an OCIP program administrator;
- an OCIP safety manager and carrier loss control consultants;
- owner representatives and construction managers
- customized report template.
View a YouTube video of the project's grand opening
here.
