Portland Office Wins Safety Excellence Award

Cochran's Portland office has been awarded the National Association of Women in Construction's 2008-2009 Safety Excellence Award! Their track record of safe work performance and their dedication to safety training and proactive safety management has made them a leader in the industry. Portland's "PADDLE board", which stands for Preventing Accidents, Death, Downtime, and Loss for Everyone, with the slogan of "Together we can PADDLE a safe course", provides training sessions with special guest speakers for all employees and acts as a disciplinary body for safety incidents. Many of the PADDLE board members are active in the construction safety community, having helped develop the NIETC Energized Electrical Work Policy and serving as board members for various industry safety committees. Thank you Portland for your great example and congratulations on this distinguished award!