Preventing Hazards Before They Happen

Recognize the hazard. Respond with a plan. At Odin, response doesn’t start after something goes wrong. It starts in the moment - when something doesn’t feel right. In today’s video, H&S Director Chad Guerrero, CHST, ASP talks about how our Stop, Talk, Accept, and Resume approach gives every team member the ability to speak up, pause the work, and make the right adjustments before a hazard turns into an incident. That means stepping back, talking through the task, identifying safer options, and updating the JSA to match real conditions in the field. As we continue #ConstructionSafetyWeek, we’re reinforcing a simple truth. When people are empowered to respond, hazards don’t become incidents. 𝐖𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞 𝐛𝐲 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭. 𝐖𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞. #CSW2026 #AllInTogether #RespondToRisk #StopWorkAuthority #SafetyCulture #TeamOdin #LetTheFunBegin

🚧 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗮𝗳𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗭𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗱 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿. The 2026 theme: Recognize • Respond • Respect. This year, the theme can be applied well for high-energy or high-hazard (“STCKY”) activities: the stuff that can kill you. ✅ 𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗚𝗡𝗜𝗭𝗘 - Use a shared framework to spot serious-injury precursors earlier and more consistently. ✅ 𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗣𝗢𝗡𝗗 - Put direct controls in place during planning ✅ 𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗣𝗘𝗖𝗧 - Every role matters. If conditions change: stop, reassess, and replan. 📌 Want practical tools around STCKY and other pressing topics to bring to your next huddle? Visit our Safety Week hub for huddle guides and other helpful resources: https://spkl.io/6044A7Kf4

Construction Safety Week is a timely reminder of the real risks faced across the construction industry. Zurich Resilience Solutions works closely with organisations to understand where harm can occur and how it can be prevented in practice. During Construction Safety Week 4–8 May 2026, we are sharing practical activity focused on recognising high‑risk situations, responding with the right controls, and respecting the need to stop and reassess when conditions change. If you want a grounded view of risk in construction and practical tools that can be used on site, link in with us and the activity we are launching this week.

The system was positioned there long before the incident. Not in a single failure, but in what slowly changed. Awareness faded. Barriers remained, but weren’t functioning the same way. The pace increased, just enough to reduce margin. Nothing obvious. No alarms. Just small shifts, accepted over time. Until the system was operating differently than anyone realized. By the time something went wrong, it wasn’t unexpected. It was already in motion. Where have you seen small changes quietly reduce margin over time? #SafetyLeadership #SystemsThinking #SafetyJiuJitsu #CatchTheWhisperBeforeTheShout #HSE

𝐊𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜, 𝐀𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐨𝐧𝐚'𝐬 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐋𝐨𝐰 𝐕𝐨𝐥𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫, 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞𝐭𝐲 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬. We stress the importance of identifying high-risk tasks and hazards to prevent serious injuries, focusing on the Fatal 4: falls, struck-by, caught-in/between, and electrocution. Early communication is vital for enhancing safety. #KearneyElectric #GrowthMindset #ElectricalContractor #TrustTeamGritGrowth #KearneyCulture #NationalConstructionSafetyWeek #AllinTogether #RecognizeRespondRespect

RECOGNIZE ⚠️ Safety starts with seeing the risk before the work begins. High-energy hazards and “STCKY” activities—Stuff That Can Kill You—must be identified early and clearly understood by every worker on site. Research shows that traditional pre-task planning only identifies about 45% of hazards. But when teams use structured tools like the Energy Wheel, hazard recognition improves by 30%. When we recognize better, we protect better. #ConstructionSafetyWeek #RecognizeRespondRespect #HazardAwareness #SIFPrevention

Finding the root cause isn’t the finish line. It’s the starting line. 🛑 Too often in safety, an incident occurs, we run a thorough investigation, we identify the root cause, and then… the momentum stops. The report gets filed, and we think the job is done. But identifying the "why" on a piece of paper doesn't keep anyone safe. The real work is what happens next. It’s about taking that root cause and aggressively applying actions that either eliminate the hazard completely or drastically reduce the risk of it ever happening again. If we aren't changing the environment, the process, or the tools, we are just waiting for history to repeat itself. But there is a catch, and it's the biggest hurdle in implementing any new safety measure: Worker Buy-in. You can design the most robust, textbook-perfect control measure in the world, but it will fall apart the second it hits the site if the crew doesn't support it. When we just hand down a new rule or procedure from the site office without context, we get friction. People on the tools need to know why the change is happening. Better yet, they need to be involved in shaping it. When you consult the team on how to make a new safety measure practical for their day-to-day work, you stop getting compliance and start getting ownership. A root cause analysis tells us what broke. Our corrective actions, driven and accepted by the team on the ground, are how we actually fix it. How does your team ensure that post-incident actions actually stick on site? Let me know below. 👇 #WorkHealthAndSafety #SafetyCulture #RootCauseAnalysis #SafetyLeadership #ContinuousImprovement #ConstructionSafety #miningsafety

Safety doesn’t improve by chance, it improves through how we respond in the moment. Through Behavior-Based Safety (BBS), we focus on what’s happening in the field in real time and use those observations to reinforce safe behaviors, have meaningful conversations, and strengthen how crews work together every day. It’s a shift from reacting to improving in the moment, building consistency in the small decisions that shape bigger outcomes. How we respond in the field is what builds safer habits over time. #KeeleySafe #KeeleyBuilt #ConstructionSafetyWeek #SafetyWeek2026

World Day for Safety and Health at Work day At Scott Combustion, we work in environments where there’s no room for guesswork. For us, safety isn't a separate policy, it’s the foundation of the technical expertise we deliver. In high-pressure environments, precision is what prevents risk. This discipline is why we maintain such strict on-site standards; we protect our engineers so they can protect your assets. Being part of the Mecsia Group reinforces this. It allows our local team to back their technical skill with national resources and shared data, ensuring a high standard of protection is applied consistently across every site we manage. By keeping reporting straightforward and acting on it immediately, we ensure long-term reliability for our clients and a safe environment for our team.