AGC Announces Tocci Building Companies as 2014 Safety Award Winner for 21st Consecutive Year

BOSTON, Mass. — The Associated General Contractors of America of Massachusetts and AON Construction Services Group of Boston recently awarded Tocci Building Companies with a 2014 National Safety Award. This marks the 21st consecutive year Tocci has received this award, demonstrating the superior safety standards the firm strives to exemplify. Charles Rosenthall, safety director at Tocci Building Companies, accepted the Safety Award on behalf of Tocci.

The National Safety Award recognizes firms that have developed superior safety standards to implement onsite for each project. In order to qualify for a Safety Award, an AGC-member firm must participate in the AGC Safety Awards Program for three consecutive years and have either zero lost-day incidence cases or an average incidence case rate 25 percent below the average rate of all firms participating in that particular division. In total, 15 AGC of Massachusetts firms received National Safety Awards for their model safety records.

In the past four decades, the U.S, Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration and its state partners have had a dramatic effect on workplace safety. According to OSHA, worker injuries and illnesses have decreased from 10.9 percent in 1972 to less than 4 percent in 2010. Tocci diligently promotes awareness of the industry’s dangers through its commitment to strict safety protocol, ensuring its jobsites are managed with an even higher level of safety compliance than required by OSHA.

“Our top responsibility is to provide a healthy and safe working environment for our employees and project partners, both on and off the jobsite,” comments Rosenthall. For Tocci, this includes weekly safety bulletins, employee training, OSHA certification and subcontractor “Toolbox Talks.”