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Area Standards

RECORDABLE INCIDENT RATE ROLLOUT

On February 14th, the District Council and Turner
Construction held a joint safety event at Columbia Business
School to kick off the new Recordable Incident Rate (RIR)
safety initiative. The event was held in conjunction with
Turner’s morning huddle and aimed to communicate to
members the importance of low incident rates.

RIR is a metric used to measure a company or a project’s
safety performance. The lower the RIR, the better a
company’s safety performance appears. By tracking RIR,
companies can watch safety trends year over year to ensure
work site safety is improving.

The morning huddle began with an overview of the work to
be done that day and was followed by presentation by Eddie
McWilliams, Director of Organizing, about the importance
of safety. Eddie began by explaining the Experience Modification
Rate (EMR) safety campaign that was launched last year to
promote and educate members on the importance of zero
accidents. EMR is the number used to gauge past cost of
injuries and future chances of risk for a company. RIR is the
number of incidents for a specific job site.

“We’re out there in a very competitive New York City
construction industry. We all know we’re competing against
nonunion contractors and developers. We can broaden
that divide. Union carpenters are they way to go. What I’m
asking union carpenters to do here today is to bring this
to everybody else on the job…make sure everybody else
knows what EMR and RIR are,” Eddie said.

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