Disaster Planning: 4 Steps to Take on Your Construction Sites

If Mother Nature strikes, will you be ready? Follow these proactive tips to help reduce weather-related delays and costs.

I thought that I’d posted a series of links & articles about planning for jobsite emergencies, but I guess I was mistaken.

Things to consider:

• Do you have a communications plan? Have a contact tree in everyone’s work truck. Make sure the office engineer has it displayed on the wall in his office for reference. Talk about it at progress meetings: If & when something happens, make sure everyone on the project understands the protocols.

• Is your staff prepared? Make it a training – Do a dry run over lunch. Make something up:

• A traffic accident with lane blockages in the work zone

• A gas main hit

• An injured worker

• What will you do during inclement weather? Heavy rain. Deep snow. If you want an example, just read my article on flooding I-290.

• How fast can you & your contractor react? What happens when you a lighting cabinet goes down? Or a catch basin frame cracks from a snow plow blade?