2. • Our Safety Mission Statement:
• To create a safe work environment that influences the attitudes of all who enter our jobsites and send
a message of intolerance to taking risks that could lead to workplace injury. Our Company is
passionate about leading the industry by providing consistent leadership that changes the way
people look at their relationship to safety.
• We are dedicated to elevating safety standards beyond what the industry mandates by creating an
attitude of elevated awareness with regard to safety. Unnecessary risks are not tolerated; they are
identified and eliminated.
• Employees at every level are responsible and accountable for the success of the overall Project safety
program. Complete and active participation by everyone is necessary to achieve excellence in safety.
We promote an alert and competent state of awareness for all who step onto our jobsites.
• Our proactive collaborative approach provides our employees and subcontractors with the tools,
knowledge and resources they need to increase safety awareness and reduce risk on every project we
manage.
• There is nothing we do that is more important than safety. Safety is a journey we cannot travel alone.
We are all in this together and must work as a team to truly promote safety for all who work on and
visit our jobsites.
Company Safety Mission Statement
3. Basic Safety Rules
Everyone is responsible for safety on the project
and is empowered and required to take action to
eliminate a safety hazard. If you are unable to
correct the hazard yourself, report it to your
supervisor and Project Management.
4. • Original plans stated opening of the loop road prior to
actual knowledge of the logistical realities of the Orenco
Podium Construction…
• With the experience obtained through the construction
process at Central and East Podiums; the reality is that
buildings of this size require adequate room to facilitate
work and logistics.
• Based on recently completed projects, the amount of
working room required by the construction crews has been
established. Allowing public traffic and buses through this
construction zone is not prudent and is a departure from
stated corporate Company Safety Mission Statement.
Today’s Situation
5. • Original assumptions concerning the reality of
building logistics and access are no longer valid.
• Podium apartment buildings of this size and
scope require a considerable amount of room to
facilitate the construction process.
• The Construction Management Team evaluation
of size and scope of work was overly optimistic
and made worse by some unforeseen issues.
How Did We Get Here?
6. East Podium is scheduled for delivery middle of July, about
2.5 months and still has a hectic amount of activity on its
perimeter.
7. Building logistics, stocking & delivery items that require access to the side of
buildings based on our experience at Central and East Podium Canopies,
Drywall and Metal studs.
8. Drywall deliveries – double and triple trucks these are semi length trucks
that show up for full days at a time and require a considerable amount of
room for the outriggers on the boom truck and flatbeds.
Metal stud deliveries – same story but usually do not take a full day to
unload.
9. Actual Realities/Day to Day Logistics roofing Siding terra cotta, cabinets/
casework, appliances, windows / doors, pool foam and supplies, Gypcrete,
dehumidifying equipment, concrete pumping for pool, landscaping, tile and
stone, glazing/ window walls, don’t forget Murphy.
10. Pool & Roof foam arrives on a 53’semi truck and is loaded with
a forklift, Honey bucket services units can take 45 minutes &
neighborhood has imposed time restrictions.
15. City buses require both lanes for turn radius, lifts require
entire sidewalk, public is unaware of most dangers and
often will walk thru work zones.
16. "Damn the torpedoes! Four bells. Captain
Drayton, go ahead! Jouett, full speed!".
17. IS IT WORTH THE RISK OR SHOULD WE
REEVALUATE THE SITUATION
20. • Assume nothing will go wrong, continue with the original plan and perilously expose
the public, Trimet and The Company to unnecessary risk.
• Change only the pedestrian route and leave the Trimet bus stop the same. The busing
pickup and drop off point on Cherry Drive is still working as it has for the past 6
months.
• The public and the drivers have become used to the new bus stops.
• Routing public through the center of the project along the east side of Central Podium
and across the Plaza to the Trimet Orenco Station Platform is a reasonable and
considerable improvement to the current route.
• There will be minimal cost incurred to route the traffic this way.
• Trimet holds public safety as its number one objective and certainly be understanding
the Company intent to maintain a high level of public safety.
• Orenco Podiums have had no major instance of public injury thus far, the altered plan
would ensure that remained so.
Available Options
21. Our Mission:
To create a safe work environment that influences the attitudes of all who enter our jobsites and send a
message of intolerance to taking risks that could lead to workplace injury. Our Company is passionate
about leading the industry by providing consistent leadership that changes the way people look at their
relationship to safety.
We are dedicated to elevating safety standards beyond what the industry mandates by creating an attitude
of elevated awareness with regard to safety. Unnecessary risks are not tolerated; they are identified and
eliminated.
Employees at every level are responsible and accountable for the success of the overall Company safety
program. Complete and active participation by everyone is necessary to achieve excellence in safety. We
promote an alert and competent state of awareness for all who step onto our jobsites.
Our proactive collaborative approach provides our employees and subcontractors with the tools,
knowledge and resources they need to increase safety awareness and reduce risk on every project we
manage.
There is nothing we do that is more important than safety. Safety is a journey we cannot travel alone. We
are all in this together and must work as a team to truly promote safety for all who work on and visit our
jobsites.
Company Safety Mission Statement
22. • Proceed with allowing pedestrian access through the project on the
east side of Central Podium only.
• Trimet bus stop remains the same until the work on the east elevation
is completed. Loop Road opens to Trimet bus traffic Dec. 01 2015.
• This allows a gradual public access improvement on July 01 2015.
• This dramatically reduces the risk exposure to The Company and
allows Trimet to show gradual improvement of conditions
culminating with the eventual Trimet park and ride parking inside of
West Podium June 2016.
Rick Sommerfeld
Project Superintendent
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