Browning Construction

Browning Safety Program

Browning Construction Co. maintains a rigorous and proactive Safety Program, updated annually, which increases employee awareness and minimizes occurrences of serious injury, resulting in an exceptionally low worker’s compensation insurance multiplier for many years. Our experience modifier rating (EMR) is below the industry average. This is the result of an aggressive safety program.

Much of the success with our safety record is attributable to the high level of safety training afforded to our employees. This training typically consists of 10-hour and 30-hour OSHA Construction Outreach courses, conducted by a third party provider. All Browning Superintendents, Project Managers and Project Engineers have attended the OSHA 30 hour training class. To supplement the OSHA classes, more informal but job-specific courses are provided in structured training seminars, consisting of topics such as Fall Protection, Fork Lift, First Aid & CPR, and Excavation Safety. Furthermore, all Browning employees are required to attend weekly jobsite safety meetings.

Browning Construction Co. employs a third-party consultant to conduct monthly audits of each and every jobsite, and furnish written reports to the Superintendent, the Project Manager and the Safety Director.

Our General Superintendent requires that each Superintendent complete a weekly job safety inspection and forward the written results, with corrections, to the Project Manager. This ensures that all levels of management are kept abreast of the “state of the job.”

At the highest level of management, the Browning Construction Co. Safety Committee meets monthly to set policy, review inspection reports and to ensure all employee training is up to date.

Browning Construction Co. has recently entered into partnership with the San Antonio Chapter of the AGC, and the Austin Area OSHA office, in a self-policing program known as the S.H.A.R.E. program.