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Awarded Projects Safety Recap

Manchester Memorial Elementary School, Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA
MBTA Iron Horse, Billerica, MA By the Numbers.
Foundry Project, Cambridge, MA With our safety inspection tool, CS
Pentucket Regional Middle-High School, West Newbury, MA Inspect, employees have contributed
Smith Elementary School, Danvers, MA a total of 206 safety inspections
Beverly Police Station, Beverly, MA on our projects through the first
three quarters of 2019 with a total
Excel Academy Bremen Middle School, East Boston, MA
of 2,322 observations with
Multi-Department Relocation Plan, Cambridge, MA
Tobin Montessori & Vassal Lane Upper School, Cambridge, MA 1,929 positive findings and 393
corrective observations resulting
Cape Cod Community College, West Barnstable, MA in a total Positive Findings rate at
83.1%.
Let’s Talk Quality As we begin new projects in Q4,

there will be a focus on taking a
deeper dive into the data we collect
and share on a weekly basis with
Thanks to all who have contributed to the success of W.T. Rich’s Focus Five
our subcontractor partners to assist
Quality Control Program. Your continued diligence and efforts have made a
with hazard recognition and trend
huge difference in preventing and identifying quality issues on our projects.
analysis with the goal of eliminating
Your focus on QC brings value in that it drives down costs and reduces
risk that could potentially cause
schedule delays due to re-work. It also provides our clients with a level of
injury. Of the four Risk Levels;
service that sets us apart from our competition, which gives us an advantage
Low, Medium, High and IDLH,
when seeking the next project.
we had 92 observations in the
Please make the effort to spread the word of your hard work to the project
High category and 4 in the IDLH
stakeholders. Let clients know of recent QC actions completed and ones that
category. These numbers indicate
are planned so they are aware of our desire to deliver quality. Let subcontractors
our project teams are out on site,
know early that we will be watching and partnering with them to hold
making observations and, most
them accountable to meet project requirements. Explain that our efforts
importantly, talking safety with our
will assist them to avoid re-work, but their participation is vital. Let your
trade partners.
teammates know
when you will be Keep up the good work!
conducting the
Antonio Bassil quality-focused
QUALITY Champion Award or inspections
meetings
and/
accepting the
Q2 2019
so that they may
Quality Control
in
participate
be reminded to
Great job, your activity and
complete their
Antonio!
own.
The secret to an effective Quality Control Program is that there is no secret.
Qualities like transparency, accountability and effort are what make the W.T.
Rich QC Program an effective one. And remember that it’s not a heavy load
if everyone pulls their weight. Thanks again for making QC a priority on
your projects.

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