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At ENR’s annual Award of Excellence, Top 25 Newsmakers and Best of the Best Projects ceremonies held in New York City April 13 and 14, two vital aspects of the construction industry were center stage: workforce safety and the need for public transportation infrastructure.
Award of Excellence winner Matt Compher, a vice president at Quanta Services, urged guests at the banquet gala held at New York’s Pier 60 to stop building their safety programs around fixing workers’ behaviors and preventing their inevitable mistakes. Instead, Compher called on them to apply the New View techniques of the energy contractor’s Capacity Model safety program. Used by Quanta since 2019, it focuses on limiting harm from serious injuries by eliminating hazards and creating barriers to absorb or prevent high-energy events from badly injuring or killing workers.