William York is an occupational safety and health management student interning with PCL. He has lived in several states and has a background in wrestling and jiu-jitsu. During his internship, he gained experience working on commercial and residential construction projects in Colorado, performing tasks like safety inspections, investigations, and educating workers. He learned about construction hazards and appreciated building relationships and coaching workers on safety. The internship helped him gain valuable field experience toward his career goals in safety management.

1. Summer 2015 PCL
Safety Internship
Experience
By: William York

2. About Me
 I am from Washington State, the evergreen state.
 Attending Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington
 Entering into final year as a occupational safety and health management student.
 I have lived in five different states (Nevada, Oklahoma, Alabama, Georgia,
Missouri, and Washington.
 Competed in wrestling for 10 years and fought in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu for 3 years
following.
 I really enjoy the outdoors

3. My College Experience
Original:
Education Degree
 Decision was based on my previous
experiences of working as a junior high
wrestling coach and a teen fitness
instructor at the YMCA for two years.
Current:
Occupational safety and
health management
 Everything I heard about the career
field was positive.
 Leadership and educational coaching
skills transitioned over well.
 Great job security.
 Not an office job
 School will be 13th to get ABET
accredited
 One of the 24 student to be accepted.

4. Goals
 Gaining as much field experience and certifications as possible.
 ASP & CSP
 Working as many different types and sizes of construction projects as possible.
 Attaining as many certifications as possible.
 Opportunities to travel .
 Achieving zero incidents and injuries.

5. Why PCL?
 Safest construction company to work for.
 Best environment to achieve all my goals in.
 Large world presence, travel opportunities.
 Employee owned, great team environment.
 Employees are taken care of.

6. My Internship Experience
 Worked on a total of five projects which include 250 columbine, Ft. Collins Aggie
village, Landmark lofts in boulder, Strata Vail , and Moto in Denver.
 Commercial and residential buildings projects.
 Worked with many supervisors, foreman, and trades people like pipefitters, electricians,
scaffold erectors, carpenters, masonry, electricians, iron workers and others.
 Fortunate enough to work with a welcoming and extremely talented team of HSE
professionals.
Anthony Kolnberger Chris Saia Jon Goad Steve Cox

7. Projects
Strata Vail Aggie Village Landmark Lofts

8. Projects Continued
MOTO 250 Columbine

9. Job Activities
 Attending morning once a week safety toolbox meetings with the entire workforce on each
construction site.
 Leading stretch and flex.
 Active in conducting pre-job safety instruction (PSI) audits.
 Participating in both formal and informal inspections.
 Entering in weekly items to the PDC website.
 Consistently being involved in safety data entry into the PDC site
 Educating Sub-contractors in stand down meetings.
 Walking the jobsites and mitigating hazard issues daily.
 Investigating Accidents and near misses.
 Orientations and training.
 BHO, Behavioral observation cards.

10. Incident Investigations
• Quality Damage
(Landmark)
• Company property
Damage (Aggie
Village)
• Company property
Damage (Strata
Vail)
• Company
property
Damage
(Aggie
Village)

11. What I have Learned
 How to approach workers, providing positive coaching and feedback.
 Importance of building a positive relationship with workers.
 Importance of being present out in the field.
 Better sense of the frequency and severity of construction site hazards.
 PCL’s System.
 Different construction processes.

12. Highlights
 Experiencing Colorado/New place.
 Working all over Colorado on a variety of projects.
 Learning safety management with Steve, Jon, Anthony, and Chris.
 Being able to coach workers on safe work practices out in the field and
seeing them actually learn.
 Building relationships with a lot of PCL’ers and other workers.