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SAFETY

Lessons in

LEADERSHIP HEROES

from JOHN GIAMONA (TX)

U.S. Navy John Giamona was half way across the Concourse at an airport terminal

job when he recognized activity on the east end that did not look right.
A rigger was tied off to a wooden hand rail on the load out pen where an
SEALS aerial boom lift was being removed with a crane. The rigger was standing
on the leading edge approximately 25 feet above the ground. The riggers
Yo-Yo was fully extended and pulling the wood hand rail and post to the
point of breaking. When John arrived, he held the hand rail to keep the
rigger from falling and moved it to a safe position. John then got in touch
with the General Contractor's safety department to inform them about what had happened. Come to find out,
the proper tie off point Yo-Yo had been removed for inspection and had not been returned. John has been on
this project for four months and did what was right to help stop a possible fatal incident.
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal:
it is the courage to continue that counts." "I wanted to share this with everyone to show how staying focused in our jobs and on our

-Winston Churchill tasks pays off, including, keeping an eye on other contractors. Thank you John Giamona!"
- John Hensy, Texas Regional Safety Director (Rosendin)

Rosendin's Training Department is rolling out the For those that want to
Extreme Ownership, instructor led, training class dive deeper into the
across the company. Classroom instruction is based material, or would like EDDIE AGUILAR (VA)
on the book, Extreme Ownership: How US Navy a guided method for
SEALs Lead and Win, by Jocko Willink and Leif reading the book, the For a couple of days, the General Contractor's insurance auditor was walking the
Babin. The book was recommended by one of our Training Department jobsite to do an assessment. He was checking site conditions, behavior observations,
Executive Board members,and a two hour training will lead a SEAL performing Q&A with craftsmen, amongst other reviews. The General Contractor
event has been developed around the book. Our Action Team informed the project team that if the insurance auditor wanted to talk to your crew,
Extreme Ownership class is receiving high praise (Study, Engage, to please take a couple minutes of your time to talk to them. When he came around
from employees across the country. Act and Learn). Every to Rosendin's team sometime after lunch, he walked up on Eddie Aguilar filling out a
two weeks, participants will Pre-Task Planning (PTP) card. At first, the auditor was a little abrasive in wanting to
“The class is AWESOME! Make no changes.” gather in a virtual meeting room to know why, at this hour of the day, a PTP card was being completed. Eddie explained

“It could be longer, it was THAT good!” ask questions, discuss the principles covered in the situation to the auditor and presented a PTP card for his previous task of
each chapter, and understand how these principles
“This gives the project team the ability to think apply to their own lives. The first SEAL Action Team installing conduit. Eddie informed him that he had just received a call on the radio to
differently about a failure, and how we can learn meets on April 10th at 12:00 PM CDT. Don’t get left jump on the forklift to assist with some material handling. Because he was switching
from our mistakes for overall improvement.” behind! Join. Learn. Win. to a completely different task, location, and potential hazards, he needed to fill out
a new PTP. Eddie went on to explain that he did not want to attempt to shoe horn in
all the new information onto a previously used PTP. The auditor was very impressed
with Eddie's answer and to also learn that what Eddie's process is common practice within Rosendin. He was so
impressed that at the Monday mass safety meeting, Eddie was called out by name and presented with a $50 gift
card from the General Contractor.

"While Eddie was the only one recognized, had the auditor approached any one of our employees he
would have seen the same thing. This is a good example of people doing the right thing, even if no
one is looking. On top of that, our production numbers for this job continue to rise week over week."
- Chad Jenkins, General Foreman (Rosendin)

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