Safety
Five Red Flags of Safety
Red flags can help workers on jobsites recognize conditions that are more likely to lead to an incident. Hoar Construction tracks trends, then distills that information into the five red flags of safety.
By Bart Wilder
September 29, 2019
Topics
Safety
by Bart Wilder
Bart Wilder is the vice president of safety at Hoar Construction in Birmingham, Alabama. bwilder@hoar.comis
He is responsible for all safety related oversight and compliance on projects across the company, working closely with project teams to make certain employees are properly trained and equipped to meet the daily safety challenges of a project. He visits jobsites regularly and performs safety inspections and coaches project teams on evaluating risks and ways to mitigate those risks.
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