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Cory Sherman, Founder of Safety Systems Management, shares Choate Construction’ s safety revolution
When it comes to safety on construction sites, seconds matter, especially when those seconds could mean the difference between a quick evacuation and chaos. For Choate Construction, one of the largest general contractors in the Southeast, that reality hit home not through a specific accident or emergency event, but through a dawning realization: the company’ s traditional emergency alert methods simply weren’ t good enough.
Javier Pabon, Safety Director for Choate’ s Savannah, Georgia business unit, oversees environmental health and safety across all seven of the company’ s offices. His mission, he says, is to make sure every worker on every site can be warned instantly when danger arises.“ Of course, like every construction company, we’ ve had incidents on our job sites,” Pabon says.“ But as a whole, what catalyzed the need to start looking at other safety systems was just a clear and urgent need to notify our workers faster and more efficiently.”
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