How we hit 2 million hours without a lost-time incident

On September 22 our crews passed two million worked hours without a single lost-time incident. That is roughly 1,000 people across eleven active sites, through two winters and one very hot Texas summer, going home every night in the same condition they arrived.

We are proud of the number, but we are careful with it. A lost-time incident rate is a lagging indicator: it tells you what already happened. What actually got us here is a set of leading habits that every superintendent, foreman and subcontractor on a STRUKT site practises daily.

Safety is planned in pre-construction

Most site injuries are designed in long before the first worker arrives. A cramped laydown area, a crane pick over an occupied walkway, a sequence that puts two trades on the same deck — these are planning decisions. So our pre-construction team runs a hazard review alongside the cost estimate, and every major risk gets an owner and a control before the schedule is locked.

Five habits that run every site

• A 15-minute pre-task plan for every crew, every morning, signed by the people doing the work.

• Stop-work authority for everyone. We logged 214 stop-work calls last year and thanked every one.

• Weekly leadership walks, reported alongside cost and schedule.

• Near-miss reporting within 24 hours, shared across all sites the following Monday.

• Subcontractors held to our standard and onboarded through the same induction as our own crews.

The goal was never the number. The goal is that every person on our sites goes home the way they came in.

Column steel tied at height: every crew on the leading edge is tied off to engineered anchors.

Measuring what comes before an incident

We report leading indicators with the same weight as lagging ones. If a site's near-miss reporting drops, we treat it as a warning sign, not good news: it usually means people have stopped talking, not that the site got safer.