[See also TRAINING SECTION.]
TRAINING MATRIX & JOB CLASSIFICATIONS
In addition to money and time spent creating and providing safety training, as well as purchasing and maintaining safety equipment, we give financial incentives to workers to encourage on-going safety training (see TRAINING SECTION; see also the TRAINING MATRIX in this section).
On-going safety training is for all field employees up to and including Superintendents.
The consequence of doing the assigned readings and courses is a much greater likelihood of being safe on the job, of going home each evening to your family and friends with your heart still beating and all your body parts attached and functioning. Plenty of incentive!
But the consequence of doing the assigned readings and courses per the schedule in the Matrix is some nice extra money. You are going to do the reading and courses anyway, you may as well do them on time and get nicely rewarded for your efforts.
The consequence of not doing all the assigned readings and all the courses (as assigned to your job classification per the Matrix) is that you won’t be eligible for pay raises until you are current on all the assigned readings and all the courses.
The Individual Safety Incentive Programs are:
- New-hire and Foremen Safety Incentive Program
- Quarterly Safety Incentive Program for all field employees (with some modifications for new-hires during their first year with Hogan)
- Yearly “Seasoned Employee Annual Safety Award” (SEAS) Program for all field employees (with some modifications for new-hires during their first year with Hogan)
- Field Leadership Quarterly Safety Incentive Program (Superintendents, Foremen, Team Managers, Team Leaders)
1. NEW-HIRES: FIRST THREE MONTHS
New-hires are the most likely to be injured during work—76% of all our injuries happen to those with less than one year on the job! So we have a safety incentive program just for new hires.
To help our new-hires understand the importance of and the how of construction safety, we take them through several online courses before we send them to the field to start work. We also require they read the entire Safety Handbook during their first 90 days with Hogan—and pay them for the time it takes to do that reading and give them bonuses if they do the reading on time.
The readings—and awards—are broken into three periods (updated 01/2023):
2. QUARTERLY SAFETY INCENTIVE FOR ALL FIELD EMPLOYEES
Awarded if a field employee completes each quarter’s Safety Handbook reading assignments and associated quizzes plus the required training coursework for that quarter (per his or her job classification) by the last day of each quarter.
Q1 – Due by March 31
Q2 – Due by June 30
Q3 – Due by September 30
Q4 – Due by December 31
At our discretion, each quarter we may offer a gift to field employees who successfully finish the Safety Handbook reading and quiz assignments, as well as the required training coursework for that quarter. Gifts range from cash to clothing to company store credits. So it doubly pays to train: your own safety and nice gifts.
Field employees are personally responsible to complete the Safety Handbook reading assignments and quizzes plus the required training coursework. Once you complete a training or reading, a notification will be sent to HR for filing in your employee record and to Payroll so you can be paid for the time you spent training (see the page 48 Matrix for payment amounts).
We encourage field employees to complete their required trainings and readings each month to avoid the end-of-quarter deadline panic of trying to cram three months’ work into a couple of evenings.
If the employee forfeits this award by not finishing the training for that quarter on time, the employee is still required to do the training sometime before the end of the year. The employee will be compensated for the reading and course time regardless of when the training is completed during the year.
If an employee does not complete the training for the year, he or she won’t be eligible for any pay raises until the employee becomes current on all the assigned readings and all the courses.
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HINT #1: You can readily use a snow day or sick day to do much of your training for the quarter. That way you will still be paid for at least some of that day.
HINT #2: You can train ahead. For example, if you had a snow day in February, you could use the entire eight hours to do training not due until quarters two, three, or four.
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NEW-HIRE modifications to the quarterly safety incentive
New-hires are eligible for the Quarterly Safety Incentive per the column to the left, with these modifications:
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Safety Handbook Reading and Quizzes
Any new-hire with a start date in the first month of a quarter (January, April, July, or October) will need to read both period-one (“Introduction” through “Other Policies”) and period-two (“Aerial Lifts” through “Rebar Caps”) readings (see previous page) to be eligible for the Quarterly Safety Incentive at the end of that quarter.
Any new-hire with a start date in the second month of a quarter (February, May, August, or November) will need to read only period-one (“Introduction” through “Other Policies”) readings to be eligible for the Quarterly Safety Incentive at the end of that quarter.
Any new-hire with a start date in the third month of a quarter (March, June, September, or December) will not be eligible for that quarter’s Quarterly Safety Incentive. These new-hires will need to have finished all three period-one, -two, and -three reading assignments to be eligible for the Quarterly Safety Incentive award for the quarter after their start date quarter.
All three types of new-hires (first-month, second-month, and third-month) will need to have done all of the new-hire readings (the complete Safety Handbook) to be eligible for any subsequent quarter’s Quarterly Safety Incentives (until they begin the regular reading schedule as described in the next sub-section).
EXAMPLE new-hire READING FOR
QUARTERLY SAFETY INCENTIVE AWARD
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when do NEW-HIREs begin the sAMe reading schedule as everyone else
New-hires will have read the entire Safety Handbook and passed all the sectional quizzes during their first three months at Hogan. Consequently, they are not required to do the monthly reading assignments everyone else does until:
- First-, second-, and third-quarter start dates: These new-hires will start to reread the Safety Handbook on the following January 1, per the schedule in the Matrix.
- Fourth-quarter start dates: These new-hires will start to reread the Safety Handbook not on the following January 1, but starting with the January after that, one year out, and per the schedule in the Matrix.
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(See the example new-hire year transition to regular reading schedule graphic below.)
They are, however, still eligible for the Quarterly Safety Incentive awards if they do the required coursework beginning with the month following their hire date (see new-hire coursework section, right column).
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EXAMPLE new-hire YEAR transition to regular reading scheduleD
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New-hire Coursework
New-hires complete specific new-hire courses before starting in the field. They are paid for their time spent doing this training, though there are no financial incentives otherwise. (These courses are New-hire, EEO, Powered Industrial Trucks, Back Safety, and Silica. In addition, Iron Workers do Working from Heights and Steel Erection.)
Beginning with the first full month following their hire date, they are expected to complete the monthly coursework assigned for their respective job classifications (per the Matrix) just like seasoned employees (again, see illustration, below).
They receive pay compensation for this coursework per the Matrix.
There will be some months and may be a quarter when there will be no coursework scheduled.
PRORATED AWARD
As stated above, new-hires will be eligible for the Quarterly Safety Incentive awards if they complete their assigned coursework on time. Partial quarters, due to variability of when they start with Hogan, will have the quarterly incentive award prorated to match their personal training schedule (one-third or two-thirds of the total, again depending on when their start date).
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EXAMPLE new-hire coursework start date
(start regular courses the first full month in the field)
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3. Yearly safety incentive for ALL FIELD EMPLOYEES
The “Seasoned Employee Annual Safety Award” or the SEAS Award is given at the end of each calendar year to field employees based on completing each month’s assigned coursework and Safety Handbook reading assignments.
The SEAS awards grow in value the more years the employee has been with Hogan.
The award levels, based on years with Hogan, are:
- Years 1 through 3: $100 each year.
- Years 4 and 5: $150 each year.
- Starting in your sixth year with Hogan, you get $300. Each year and every year thereafter—if you complete your monthly assigned Safety Training Courses and Safety Handbook Modules. (We do reserve the right to change the reading in future years to keep things fresh and interesting.)
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NOTE: You can qualify for the SEAS Award—doing all of the yearly training—even if you missed the deadline for any of the quarterly training incentives. For example, if you are a master procrastinator (a bad thing), you can do all of your year’s training in December and qualify for the annual SEAS Award, though you would have missed out on those awesome $100 quarterly awards.
NEW-HIREs
New-hires can also receive the SEAS award, though it will be prorated to match the number of quarters they have been participating in the regular employee coursework.
4. Field leadership QUARTERLY SAFETY INCENTIVE (updated 03/2022)
Superintendents and their Foreman will receive $200 each quarter if they do the following:
SUPERINTENDENTS & FOREMEN
- Daily Production and Safety Meetings first thing in the morning
- Weekly Subcontractor Safety Meetings
- Weekly site inspections
- Daily logs
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The following Hogan crews will hold their own Daily Production & Safety meetings first thing each morning and will be awarded $200 for holding these meetings:
- Steel fabrication facility
- Surveyors
- Yard
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TEAM MANAGERS & TEAM LEADERS:
Team Managers and Team Leaders will also receive $100 each quarter if they ensure their employees attend the jobsite Daily Production & Safety meetings first thing each morning.
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