Safety

Employee Health & Safety

At Dycom, safety is more than rules and procedures – it’s a mindset. We are focused on training, engaging, and empowering all our employees to recognize and mitigate hazards, so everyone gets home safely.

Dycom’s Safety Management System (SMS)

Headway™, Dycom’s SMS, is the preferred path when mitigating risk on the job. Our multi-step strategy and intensive training empowers all our workforce to recognize and enforce instinctive safety techniques.

Commit & Lead

Our executive and managerial leadership demonstrate their commitment to our safety program and supporting initiatives through various tools and actions, for example:

  • Executive safety committee
  • Monthly safety calls and annual safety management conferences
  • Proprietary safety software development, SafetyView®
  • Budget and resource allocation

Train & Engage

Effective, consistent and deliberate communication is a critical component of our safety program. As an integral part of our safety process, all our team members, whether in the office or in the field, are required to undergo mandatory safety training. They are actively engaged in training, reporting, and auditing safety programs and protocols daily.

  • The Job Task Safety Assessment (JTSA), a process performed prior to any work
  • Safety non-negotiables, foundational to our safety culture
  • Subsidiary safety committees
  • Stop work authority without reprisal
  • Feedback loop, dedicated hotline
  • Consistent communications and routine meetings

Identify & Mitigate

Appropriate risk mitigation involves identifying potential risks to a project and implementing strategies to help prevent or reduce the risk. We employ several techniques through our on-site safety protocols to ensure we are continuously evaluating and minimizing our risk.

Evaluate & Improve

Cultivating a culture of accountability supports our vision of instinctual safety. We are duty-driven to support team members, provide consistent feedback and training and drive responsibility through education and rewards systems.

A.L.W.A.Y.S.

We believe that to create a best-in-class safety program, all employees must commit to a core list of safeguards. The safeguards are designed to protect against the most common causes of severe injury. They are foundational to our safety culture.

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Training

Our employees are actively engaged in training, reporting, and auditing safety programs and protocols daily. Employee training is robust and beginning at their onboarding.

  • New Hire Safety Orientation
  • Task and job-specific documented safety qualification training
  • 3rd party safety certifications
  • Field mentoring with Qualified Person
  • Ongoing evaluation and continued education as identified via recurring documented field visits (JSO, Gatecheck, etc.)

Job-focused safety training, for all construction and infrastructure job functions and work types:

  • Emergency Work (Line strikes, natural disaster recovery, etc.)
  • Working around utility and power poles
  • Fire Prevention
  • Stop work Authority (for example: No reprisal policy)
  • Aerial construction
  • Underground construction
  • Locating
  • Fulfillment

Driver Safety Program

  • A unique, specialized program created to mitigate in-vehicle risks and hazards
  • Nearly $6 Million invested in best-in-class camera technology to enhance our driver safety program since fiscal 2021
  • Drivers receive classroom and on-the-road training focused on blending safe driving principles with modern in-cab video footage and telematic data
  • Centralized Driver Coaching Department
  • Each driver works with a coach and reviews in-cab video for continuous learning
B.S.A.F.E.

CertusLearn Training

Our Learning Management system, CertusLearn provides visibility into the compliance and training needs of each worker as well as delivers critical training directly to their devices.

Internally developed digital training content is tailored to our industry’s specific tasks, hazards, and regulations.

Training Facilities

Dycom Industries owns several training facilities for various aspects of our business, including aerial wireline and underground construction, cable splicing and more.

Employee students are trained and qualified by our certified instructors where students receive hands-on training with equipment, utility pole farms, and mock job sites.

OSHA

To ensure the safety and wellness of all our team, at a minimum Dycom adopts and follows all OSHA standards and training regulations.

Structural Integrity & Safety

Safety Policies & Reporting

  • Executive leadership, subsidiary Presidents, and Safety Leaders together create the Executive Safety Committee, developed to tackle the businesses most challenging safety issues.
  • Each subsidiary maintains a custom EHS manual that complies with all applicable regulatory requirements and focuses on its unique business and environmental hazards and challenges.
  • The Dycom Safety Manual. The manual details all our safety requirements and expectations. We routinely review and update the manual to ensure we are operating in the safest manner. All employees are provided with a digital manual when hired, which is the foundation of our safety training program.
  • The Dycom Safety Data Team. The team supports the subsidiary safety leaders with routine analysis and reports to help them manage their safety program. They also provide weekly and monthly reports that Dycom management uses to track safety performance across the company.

Supplier and Subcontractor Safety

In accordance with the Company’s Supplier Code of Conduct, Dycom expects Suppliers to apply robust health and safety policies and practices in their operations. Suppliers must provide a safe and healthy work environment in accordance with applicable standards, laws, rules, and regulations and must maintain a work environment that is free from violence and threatening, hostile, or abusive behavior. Suppliers should provide appropriate health and safety information and training to their employees. Dycom expects Suppliers to minimize the impact of emergency events by proactively implementing business continuity plans and response procedures. Suppliers working on Dycom’s behalf must have procedures and systems to promptly prevent, manage, track, and report all occupational injuries and illnesses and any hazardous or unsafe working conditions. Suppliers are expected to ensure compliance with Dycom’s Quality, Health, Safety & Environmental Policy.

On-Site Safety

We employ several on-site safety techniques to ensure we are continuously evaluating and minimizing our risk.

The Job Task Safety Assessment (JTSA)

  • This is the process that is performed by crews prior to beginning work on a job site to ensure that all crew members and other authorized personnel are aware of all environmental and task related hazards, and to create a Safety Action Plan to control the risk associated with each hazard.

Job Safety Observation (JSO)

  • This evaluation is completed by supervisors and managers every 45 days at a minimum.

Root Cause Analysis

  • Specialized proprietary tool developed to identify incident root causes.

Post-Incident Calls

  • Conversation aimed to identify the cause of an incident for future mitigation.

Jobsite Inspection

  • Performance of routine safety jobsite inspection for subcontractors.

Deviation Notification

  • Deviations found in job sites are emailed to the safety team as well as management for the purpose of coaching, training, tracking, and corrective action.

Daily Vehicle Inspection Record (DVIR)

  • Drivers inspect their vehicles at every use ensuring vehicles are safe to be driven on roadways.
  • DVIR application is an internally developed proprietary system that detects vehicle use and movement via GPS telematics to ensure inspections are being performed with each vehicle use.
  • DVIR defects result in immediately sends notifications to supervisors and fleet to ensure vehicle safety issues are resolved as soon as possible.

Gate Checks

  • Trucks, equipment, and all PPE are checked daily at field locations.