For the second consecutive year, Sundt this week won the Associated General Contractors, San Diego Chapter, Construction Safety Excellence Award for the Highway Division. The award was presented at AGC’s San Diego Chapter Annual Board Installation and Awards Dinner on Jan. 16.
The award, given in the 2 million to 4 million hour category, was based on safety statistics for our entire company and qualifies us to win the division at the AGC of America National Judging and compete for the AGC Grand Award, given each year to the nation’s safest construction company. We are the only general contractor on record to win the award twice (2006 and 2016). Grand Award judging will take place in March at the 98th Annual AGC National Convention in Las Vegas.
“Winning the AGC Construction Safety Excellence Grand Award in 2016 was huge,” said Sundt Area Safety Manager Paul Sprecco, who works in San Diego. “To be recognized by your peers as being ‘the best of the best’ validates our safety culture. The real credit goes to folks who implement the workings of our safety program every day, on every project. We know that we are doing the right things because our safety measurement numbers continue to improve. We can’t rest on our laurels, though, so we are continually looking for ways to improve our systems.”