Construction Services

Fortier consultants help our clients overcome the inherent difficulties of managing an effective safety program in one of the highest risk industries, construction. With a significant clientele in the construction industry and years of experience, our consultants are accustomed to identifying potential safety problems at a construction site, timely communication of those problems to management and suggesting changes to head-off potential accidents or compliance concerns.

Because construction is one of the highest risk industries surveyed by the National Safety Council, to implement and maintain an effective safety program takes a great deal of time and effort. A good understanding of the problems involved is necessary to design an effective program. Some of these problems are:

• Numerous locations complicate the problem of trying to manage the problem.
• High turnover rates among lower scale employees makes training in safety a constant problem.
• Construction workers tend to be independent, and it is difficult to change their behavior.
• Management objectives tend to be more shortsighted in the construction industry than most businesses. This is due to the relatively short length of construction projects.
• Safety planning must be long range to be effective.

Our consultants can help you overcome these problems by providing professional guidance and inspection services. Our consultants have years of experience in the construction industry and can be extremely cost effective in helping you control your losses. They understand the problems your supervisors face and can provide realistic solutions. Some of the services we provide include:

Safety Program Design/Implementation
Fortier is available to design and implement a customized safety program for your company.

Program Audits
This is an effective way to evaluate your safety program as a whole. Please view Program Audits which is listed on the Our Services page.

Site Inspection Services
Most safety directors, if the company has one, are spread too thin to provide the frequency of inspections that is necessary to insure that a safety program is being properly implemented. The best program in the world will be ineffective if it is not followed on the jobsite.

Professional Accident Investigation
Our consultants are available for investigations into serious accidents the documentation provided by this investigation can be invaluable in providing a legal defense or to avoid a recurrence of the accident.

Safety Training and Customized Safety Meetings
Fortier offers a wide variety of safety training. We can also design safety meetings that are customized to the special needs of the customer. If you have a special problem that you want covered in a safety meeting, contact us and we will prepare a meeting to fit your needs.

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What Our Clients Say:

On behalf of the Associated Builders & Contractors – East Tennessee Chapter, we would like to thank you very much for speaking at our annual ABC Safety Night Dinner. Your presentation on your Construction Safety Philosophy was excellent and the discussion of jobsite photos and accidents was exactly what we were looking for. It was obvious that your presentation made a memorable impact on the audience.
Sandy Redmond, ALCM - Julie Costner, East TN ABC President