Safety

When you’re confronted with rising safety related costs, how do you tackle this elephant-sized problem? The safety committee is well meaning but ineffective, and management doesn’t even know where to begin. Your company is literally “wounded” by real dangers that threaten your survival.

Based on our 30 years of experience with manufacturing safety issues, Birch Consulting Group has developed a unique method that will stop the bleeding. Our approach has been proven on the factory floors of nationally known manufacturers.

Birch Consulting's hands-on, experience-tested safety consulting separates us from the rest of the field. No two operations are the same, so we don’t apply a “canned” formula to your company. Instead, we roll up our sleeves and look for opportunities to empower your employees to take responsibility for their own safety performance. Our creative approach includes...

• Accident investigation and prevention
• Safety training, committees, and rewards
• Safety metrics, audits, policies, and practices
• OSHA, WISHA, MSDS, and safe work practices
• Job safety instruction at all levels.

Let’s look at an example. A northwest food processor had 150 employees working three shifts. Safety statistics predicted that within the next twelve months 50% of their employees were going to have an accident requiring medical treatment. Workers Compensation costs were in excess of $200,000 per year. Aggressive action was required to literally stop the bleeding.

Birch Consulting Group stepped in. We reviewed historical accident records, investigation reports, and existing safe work procedures. We worked with management to develop a two-year strategy and supporting tactical plans.

Then we took forceful, emergency-level action that got everyone in the company involved. We used some surprising tactics that created immediate employee ownership of the problem. Our methods raised the level of employee maturity and made self-motivated safety a moment-by-moment concern.

The result? An accident rate of 20% the first year and only 10% the second. By the third year, workers compensation costs were only $75,000.

If an unsafe work force is bleeding your income statement dry, call Birch Consulting Group today. We have helped companies just like yours foster an accident free environment. No one else knows how to make it happen in the real world the way we do.