We are the safest contractor on the Grand Casino-Mille Lacs expansion project for the month of July! Thank you to PCL Construction for recognizing Egan with this safety award.
Matt Tembruell, Plumbing Field Leader, was also recognizes as July’s Safety Champion on the Grand Casino-Hinckley jobsite. Congratulations to both Matt and the entire team for this acknowledgment. Egan continues to maintain safety as our number one priority among both office and field projects – we appreciate the recognition for our dedication!
Egan Company’s commitment to safety was recognized at the Governor’s Safety Awards Luncheon during the Minnesota Safety & Health Conference. Egan received four Governor’s Safety Awards for achieving safety records better than the 2015 industry average, including an Outstanding Achievement award and three Meritorious Achievement awards!
These awards affirm the great strides we’ve made to uphold safety at Egan, but there is much more work to do in order to reach our ultimate zero-injury goal. We must continue to empower all employees to voice their safety concerns and promote the imperative need for safety at every opportunity.
Egan has set the standard for other contractors to follow. By having Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) mandatory 100% of the time, it shows that everyone wants to see us return home safe to our families every day.
Egan Company first established a safety department in 1986. Having been founded in 1945, it may surprise some that Egan had gone over forty years without a dedicated safety program.
The construction industry’s safety expectations thankfully changed, and so too did Egan’s.
Egan’s] safety program goes above and beyond all programs I have seen in my 20 years on the job. When we work with other contractors, they often adopt our standards, making the job a safer environment for all.
Safety awareness is essential in construction, something Chuck Roberts, Egan Company Plumbing Foreman, learned quickly while on the Southdale Medical Office Building jobsite in Edina, Minn.
Egan has a full-time safety team that facilitates regular safety training for all employees. Training is provided through weekly jobsite toolbox talks, task specific training, and online courses offered for employees to gain safety knowledge and experience.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN (September 22, 2014) – 
MINNEAPOLIS, MN (April 25, 2014) – Not all Minnesota families are able to welcome home their loved one after a regular day on the job.
Egan, in association with the Minnesota Association of General Contractors (AGC), the National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA), and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) 292, has been backing legislation offered this year at the State Capitol to reduce work zone speeds to 45 mph when workers are present on high speed roads and to increase the fine for moving violations in work zones to a minimum of $300 per occurrence statewide. Existing law allows work zone speeds to be set with no limits and speeding fines in work zones statewide vary widely based on the location of the violation. Changes to existing law to better protect road workers is contained within H.F. 3732, the Omnibus House Supplemental Transportation Appropriations bill currently being heard in the Ways and Means Committee. House File 3732 proposes to reduce speeds in work zones to a maximum of 45 mph when workers are present statewide, increase the minimum fine for moving violations in work zones to $300, and provide for the use of additional technology and public awareness campaigns. The road worker safety legislation is sponsored by Rep. Ron Erhardt, DFL-Edina, and Senator Susan Kent, DFL-Woodbury, among other legislators.