Miller, Long & Arnold is committed to providing a safe and healthy work place for all employees.  The success of our safety program depends on the cooperation of every individual, therefore attention to safety starts at the top and permeates every level of the company.  Safety considerations are integrated into all of our construction activities and our supervisors are constantly working to identify and correct hazards, reduce accidents, promote safe working habits, and maintain clean work environments.

MLA has been accepted into Maryland Occupational Safety and Health Cooperative Compliance Partnerships (CCP's) on many of its larger projects.  These agreements are only for companies that have met the rigorous MOSH requirements and whose safety program exceeds industry standards.  

We employ a full time Corporate Safety Director whose responsibilities include weekly inspections. During these visits, a thorough examination of the entire jobsite is conducted using a detailed checklist that has been developed over years of experience, including the inspection of all tower cranes, equipment, tools, employee work habits, personal protective equipment, slab edge protection, and potential fall hazard zones.  The Safety Director then walks the jobsite with the full-time superintendent to discuss the inspection details, necessary remedial actions, and any other safety related topics.  On larger projects, quarterly safety walk throughs are conducted with a third-party construction safety/loss specialist to further enhance the safety program.

Monthly company-wide safety meetings are held for all superintendents, foremen, site safety personnel, engineers, and equipment operators.  Any accidents or close-calls since the previous meeting are discussed and analyzed in a round table forum in order to ensure input and understanding from all parties. The Safety Director presents a slide show highlighting safe working practices, as well as potentially hazardous situations found on all MLA jobsites during the weekly visits, and alerts personnel to any changing industry policies.  

Mandatory "Toolbox Talks," in which all employees on the jobsite are gathered together for a continual refresher on common safety related issues, are conducted weekly.  We consistently implement on-site training inside work areas to ensure that employees have a hands-on tutorial on their specific daily tasks, such as crane signaling and awareness, scaffold erection and dismantling, fall protections, excavations, etc.