At Quanta, safety is a core value. The Capacity Model is driven by leadership and leaders are responsible for ensuring the safety of their people. Quanta’s management team creates a culture in which employees also have the opportunity and responsibility to take ownership for their safety and the safety of their coworkers. We’ve always held the belief that our most valuable asset – what truly sets us apart – is our employees. At the end of the day, there’s nothing more important than our employees coming home safely.
Error is normal. Even the best people make mistakes.
It’s not if, it’s when. We will always plan and execute our work as if failure is going to happen today.
Workers do what they do for a reason, and the reason makes sense to the workers given the context of the situation.
Blame fixes nothing.
How we imagine work takes place is different from how work actually takes place.
Managers shape how the organization learns by the their reaction to failure.
Learning is a strategic and operational choice towards improvement
The Capacity Model creates a work environment that focuses on preventing an incident while also building the capacity for failure by always planning and executing our work as if failure is going to happen today.
Establishing a learning-based philosophy allows the organization to adapt and mature, building upon lessons learned and operational efficiences identified through collaboration.
Significant events are a result of a release or transfer of energy that can’t be absorbed safely.
Life-ending, life-threatening, and life-changing events still occur in our industries.
Life-ending, life-threatening, and life-changing events are eliminated.
When high energy exposure exists we must have capacity to fail safely.
The Energy Wheel is a hazard-identification tool that helps workers systematically look for types of energy. The Energy Wheel focuses on hazards that can cause a life-threatening, life-altering, or life-ending injury.
It’s important for crews to start focusing on STKY scenarios that could occur on their jobsite. Significant events are a result of a release or transfer of energy that can’t be absorbed safely. When high-energy exposure exists, we must have capacity to fail safely.
STKY discussions are brief talks that focus on identifying STKY and deciding how to deal with it. These should be part of normal job briefings but can be repeated throughout the day.
A state where death is imminent or probable if not immediately addressed by trained medical personnel, often with the aid of life-sustaining support. Examples include profuse bleeding, damaged/blocked airway, untreated shock, or unnatural arrhythmia (irregular heartbeat due to unnatural causes like a shock or ingestion of a toxic substance).
A state of permanent or long-term impairment or loss of the use of an internal organ, bodily function, or body part. Example injuries include amputations, loss of vision/eye, compound fractures, spinal injuries or paralysis, severe burns, and disfigurement.
An injury that results in the death of an employee.
Our culture is about supporting an environment where all employees can be themselves, are valued and have an equal opportunity to succeed. At Quanta it’s not a job – it’s a career.
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