ACHEN-GARDNER REACHES MAJOR SAFETY MILESTONE Arizona construction firm recorded one million man-hours without a lost-time incident, with the help of HCSS Safety By Krysten Powers It takes time to make a meaningful culture change within an organization. For Achen-Gardner Safety Manager Cesar Martinez, it took about a million man-hours, to be exact. Earlier this year, Achen-Gardner hit a significant safety milestone when the Arizona-based construction firm reached one million man-hours without a lost-time incident. Those man-hours spanned about three years of work for the company’s approximately 140 employees. But Martinez has been working on making Achen-Gardner safer for even longer. “When I started working with Achen-Gardner in 2012, our lost- time accident rate was not where

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