Good morning to all I.D.I. employees,
Often times we only hear the bad things that happen when it
comes to safety. Well last Thursday, a great thing occurred that I felt the need to
share with everyone.
Our crew was working on the 4th floor at a project.
Another contractor struck a sprinkler head on the 4th floor causing
water to start flooding an area on the 4th floor. Our lead field supervisor, Matt Larson, said
that our apprentice carpenter, Robert Hula, immediately yelled out to Matt and
the rest of our crew to “shut off the water valve, a sprinkler pipe got hit!” Matt immediately dismounted from his baker scaffold, grabbed a
portable ladder, shut off the water valve and opened the drain valve.
This stopped the water flow and the water left in the pipes then
flows through the pipes to the drain instead of out into the space. Matt
also said our crew jumped on helping to prevent the water from getting down the
cored holes in the concrete floor and the water got contained to minimize the
damage.
Matt advised that our 5-minute morning safety huddles played a big role in this. Matt goes over these procedures every day in
his 5-minute morning safety huddle. He reminds the crew that the
sprinkler pipes are live, be aware of where they are when you are working
around them and to not bump them. He also goes over as to where the shut
off valves are. Matt also said thank you to our company for doing the
training that we do as it prepared him to deal with situations like this and to
be aware of live sprinkler pipes. Matt advised that his crew followed the
procedures that they discuss every morning and Robert Hula acted quickly and correctly. Matt advised that the 5-minute daily huddles provided him with the avenue to go over procedures like
this.
Matt – terrific job to you, your crew and Robert on being prepared and for preparing your crew! You and your crew's actions potentially saved thousands of dollars, further
frustration, time and great client relations.
Great job!!!!!!!
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