June is National Safety month, and in observance of this important topic we will post a new article each week in June that focuses on safety to promote a safe and healthy workplace. Check back next week for the next post in this safety series.

Almost three decades ago, I began my environmental consulting career armed with an abundance of youthful enthusiasm, and very little training. I worked for a small hazardous materials management firm, and I was in the field almost immediately conducting assessments and overseeing cleanups of some very nasty chemicals. The company that I worked for wasn’t bad, but it definitely did not have much in the way of a safety culture. When I think back on those days now, I realize just how lucky I was that nothing catastrophic ever happened on one of my project sites. My experiences during that time, however, definitely taught me the importance of prioritizing safety, and why it matters in so many ways.

我不会专注于安全问题的最重要和最常见的原因;我们希望我们所有团队成员，项目合作伙伴和每个人每晚都要安全地回家的人。那是给出的。相反，我想谈谈安全性如何提供质量，以及我们如何无法向客户提供技术卓越，而不会有强烈的安全文化来支持我们每天都做的工作。

So, how does safety support technical excellence? I can explain it with three words: reliability; integrity; and efficiency. Let’s start with the last of those three, first. Efficiency. Simply put, when we incorporate effective safety management practices into our daily behaviors and project scopes, we operate more efficiently. Anticipating safety concerns and proactively preparing for them allows us to implement appropriate safe work practices when site conditions warrant them, and reduces or eliminates the need for work stoppages, which saves our clients both time and money.

安全also helps to enhance the integrity of our data collection activities and to maintain the integrity of our project sites. When we pay attention to basic safety procedures such as setting up exclusion and contaminant reduction zones, establishing and implementing proper equipment decontamination procedures, and properly calibrating and checking the performance of site screening equipment, we are increasing the likelihood that our site observations and collected samples are representative of actual site conditions at specific locations. In addition, safety procedures, such as establishing equipment decontamination stations and managing personal protective equipment properly, help to maintain the integrity of our project sites by reducing the potential for contaminant transport across sites.

最后，我们来到可靠性。强大的安全文化支持我们工作范围的一致，专业执行，这就是为什么我们的客户和团队合作伙伴再次与我们的时间和时间重新开始工作。当他们看到我们关注我们的安全计划的细节时，走到上方，而不是切割角落，它让他们增加了依赖我们提供的所有技术服务的信心，并将我们包括最多雷电竞首页重要项目。