Construction and engineering executives representing major global corporations founded the Construction Users Roundtable (CURT) in 2000 to improve how construction was planned, managed, justified and executed.

Haskell joined CURT in 2021, largely to take part in the organization’s annual Construction Industry Safety Excellence (CISE) Awards and measure its industry-leading safety program and practices against the biggest and best.

Clearly, it measured up.

After finishing as runner-up in 2023 in the category of General Building Contractors working more than 3 million hours per year, the largest category, Haskell was announced as the 2024 CISE Award winner this week during the CURT Awards of Excellence Gala in Houston.

“This is a significant honor for Haskell,” Executive Vice President and COO John-Paul Saenz said. “It’s gratifying to see our excellent safety culture and performance being recognized at this level.”

CURT comprises 67 architectural, engineering and construction associates, 37 construction owners and 10 industry associations. The CISE Awards program was established to recognize commendable safety management and safety improvements of owners and constructors.

Overall, Haskell is measured against the commercial construction industry based on the Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR), which the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics compiles. In 2023, Haskell team members worked a company-record 4.6 million hours and recorded a TRIR of 0.39, more than four times better than the non-residential construction industry average of 1.7 incidents per 100 workers.

Digging deeper into metrics, the Days Away, Restricted or Transferred (DART) rate, which measures the severity of injuries, Haskell recorded an impressive 0.22.

Perhaps most important is the Work in Place (WIP) metric, which reflects Haskell’s safety management of safety of everyone on the job site, including all contract partners. In 2023, based on 9.3 million hours worked, Haskell’s WIP was 0.82, the lowest since tracking began in 2014.

“We joined CURT three years ago with the intention of benchmarking against a more elite group,” said Lance Simons, Haskell’s VP of Safety and Quality. “In the past, we benchmarked against industry peers using the BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) data, but that’s not an adequate metric. We’re better than that. We needed to compete against this elite group. To be recognized in that group is something pretty special.”

Last year’s winner, Turner Construction, was not eligible to compete this year, and Haskell will be excluded from the running in 2025.

“The idea is that it gives others something to strive for as they grow their program,” Simons said. “It’s an opportunity to take things you’ve learned from others and augment their programs and receive the recognition of their peers.”

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