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Pre-task plans, every crew, every day
No Meridian crew starts work without a written pre-task plan naming the hazards and the controls — reviewed at the morning huddle, signed by everyone on the task.
S-04 Safety
Everyone home. Every night. Provably.
Owners are entitled to the numbers before the pitch, so the numbers come first — three years of them, defined and benchmarked. Then the part that actually creates them: a program built on authority in the crews, not posters in the trailer.
A note on these numbers. Meridian is a fictional contractor, so every figure below is invented — but the format is real. This is exactly how a commercial GC should publish its record: defined metrics, multiple years, benchmarks for context, and the leading indicators shown alongside the lagging ones.
R-01 The record
Three years, in writing
| Year | EMR | TRIR | LTIR | Hours worked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.79 | 1.78 | 0.52 | 612,000 |
| 2024 | 0.74 | 1.55 | 0.44 | 688,000 |
| 2025 | 0.71 | 1.42 | 0.38 | 742,000 |
How to read them
- EMR Experience Modification Rate
- 1.00 is the insurance industry's average; below 1.00 means better-than-average loss experience.
- TRIR Total Recordable Incident Rate
- Recordable incidents per 200,000 hours worked. Recent construction-sector averages hover around 2.5.
- LTIR Lost-Time Incident Rate
- Lost-time incidents per 200,000 hours worked — the injuries that keep someone home.
The trend matters more than any single year: EMR down from 0.79 to 0.71 while hours worked grew by a fifth. Falling incident rates on rising hours is the curve a safety program is supposed to produce.
23
Stop-work calls in three years. Twenty-three thank-yous.
Anyone on a Meridian site can stop the work — apprentice, subcontractor, delivery driver — without explanation and without consequence. Every caller in the last three years got a personal call of thanks from the director of safety. That is the entire policy, and it is not negotiable.
R-02 Leading indicators
What produces the record
Lagging indicators describe last year. These are the habits that decide next year's.
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Stop-work authority for every worker
Anyone on a Meridian site — apprentice, subcontractor, delivery driver — can stop the work without explanation and without consequence. It has been used 23 times in three years. We thanked all 23 people.
L-03
Near-miss reporting we actually want
412 near-misses reported last year, each one closed with a written corrective action. A rising near-miss count with falling incidents is the healthiest curve in safety.
L-04
OSHA-30 superintendents, OSHA-10 minimum for all
Every superintendent and foreman carries OSHA-30; every worker on site holds at least OSHA-10 plus Meridian's own orientation before their first task.
L-05
Subcontractors prequalified on safety first
Trade partners submit EMR, TRIR and their written safety program before they may bid. Above-threshold numbers mean a corrective plan or no invitation — no exceptions for price.
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Third-party audits, unannounced
An independent safety consultancy audits our sites unannounced eight times a year. Findings go to the CEO the same week, uncushioned.
R-03 The program
Written down, audited, unannounced
A safety culture that lives in binders is a filing system. Ours is audited eight times a year by an independent consultancy that arrives unannounced — and reports to the CEO, not to the project teams being audited.
- Site-specific safety plan written before mobilization on every project
- Job-hazard analyses for all high-risk activities: cranes, excavation, energized work, work at height
- 100% orientation: no badge, no site access, no exceptions
- Daily stretch-and-flex and morning huddle on every site
- Crane and rigging plans engineered and peer-reviewed for every critical lift
- Incident review board chaired by the safety director with craft representation
Start / Bid room
Vetting contractors on safety?
Good — you should be. Ask every bidder for EMR, TRIR and their written program. Ours arrive with the first response, unprompted.
Bid room: bids@meridiancg.example · +1 (555) 014-7300