Safety First. Our clients expect it, we demand it, and our employees live it. Health and safety performance is a critical success factor in all of CDM's projects and activities. CDM's health and safety program is based on the principles that people are our greatest asset, accidents and injuries are preventable, and everyone is responsible for safety.
As a company committed to client service, CDM works closely with clients to coordinate health and safety activities to ensure client and CDM health and safety requirements are met. This close coordination and communication ensures the safest possible work environment for all personnel.
Elements of our successful H&S program include:
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Leadership of the Corporate H&S Officer and network of H&S managers in every business unit
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Comprehensive H&S training
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Accurate reporting, analysis, and investigations
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Medical surveillance program overseen by a board-certified occupational physician
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Project H&S plans
Thanks to this vigorous program, CDM has consistently achieved experience modification, total recordable incident, and lost workday incident rates much better than industry average.
Recent Health & safety AwardS
2007 Alcoa Recognition for Benchmark Safety Performance Award
The award recognizes CDM's innovative approaches to safety and exemplary safety performance record on the 2006–2007 remedial construction project at Alcoa’s Intalco site in Washington. In more than 34,000 hours of work, the project had zero recordable incidents and no medical treatment cases.
2007 Massachusetts Safety Council Group Safety Award
Awarded to the company with the lowest recordable incident rate of engineering firms with between 500 and 5,000 employees.
2007 Associated General Contractors Award - Second Place
CDM Constructors was awarded second place in the national Construction Safety Excellence Awards competition in the Heavy Contractor Division. The award recognizes firms that complete more than 500,000 hours of construction and have developed and implemented excellent safety and loss prevention programs.
2007 Citation of Merit
CDM's Edison office was awarded a Citation of Merit from the New Jersey Governor's Occupational Safety and Health Award Program for the third year in a row.
2006 Massachusetts Safety Council Group Safety Award
Awarded to the company with the lowest recordable incident rate of engineering firms with between 500 and 5,000 employees.
2006 California Associated General Contractors Award - Heavy Construction
Presented to the firm working more than 500,000 person-hours that has demonstrated outstanding achievement in worker safety, risk management, safety program management, training, and low EMR and recordable rates.
2006 Citation of Merit
CDM's Edison office was awarded a Citation of Merit from the New Jersey Governor's Occupational Safety and Health Awards Program for the second year.
2005 ExxonMobil Certificate of Excellence
ExxonMobil recognized CDM for 3 years of service on the New England global remediation retail project, achieving more than 80,000 work hours of CDM and subcontractor efforts without an incident during a 3-year period.
2005 Citation of Merit
CDM's Edison office was awarded a Citation of Merit from the New Jersey Governor's Occupational Safety and Health Awards Program.
2005 Massachusetts Safety Council Group Safety Award
Awarded to the company with the lowest recordable incident rate of engineering firms with between 500 and 5,000 employees.
2004 ExxonMobil Certificate of Excellence
For 19,000 hours of work with no incidents under challenging physical and environmental conditions.
2004 Western Kentucky Construction Association - Association of General Contractors Chapter Safety Award
2004 Massachusetts Safety Council Group Safety Award
Awarded to the company with the lowest recordable incident rate of engineering firms with between 500 and 5,000 employees.
2003 ExxonMobil Certificate of Excellence
For 18,000 hours of work with no incidents under challenging physical and environmental conditions.
2003 Association of General Contractors - Construction Safety Excellence Award
CDM Constructors earned a 2003 Construction Safety Excellence Award from the Associated General Contractors of American (AGC). AGC’s Construction Safety Excellence Awards Program is a qualitative program that considers corporate commitment, training, active participation, and innovation with respect to employee health and safety. This is the third consecutive year CDM has ranked nationally among competing general contractors.
2003 ALCOA Recognition
In 2003, CDM received an award from ALCOA for having no incidents during the construction of a treatment system in Massena, New York.
2003 Mallinckrodt Safety Recognition
No OSHA recordable incident or lost workday injuries on the Mallinckrodt project in Orrington, Maine.
2003 Kansas City Army Corps of Engineers Acknowledgement
CDM worked more than 500,000 hours for the district, from 1990 to 2003, without an OSHA recordable incident.