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East & Westbrook Construction Highlights Safety Excellence During Construction Safety Week (May 4-6, 2026)

Inrecognition of Construction Safety Week, East & Westbrook Construction (E&W) proudly highlights its commitment to a safety culture built onaccountability, leadership, and continuous improvement. This year’s E&W safety theme, M+A=R (Mindset + Action = Results), reflects our belief that the right mindset, combined with deliberate action, drives meaningful and lasting safety outcomes.

Green shield with white text stating '6x 2025 KY Governor's Safety & Health Award' and the letters EU stacked at the bottom.

Open communication and transparency are fundamental to the E&W safety environment. Team members are incentivised to speak up proactively, allowing potential issues to be addressed. Comprehensive training, including 100% employee certification through the Occupational Safety and Health Adminsitration (OSHA), equips each employee with the knowledge and confidence to maintain safe working conditions.

E&W's commitment to safety excellence has been consistently recognized reflecting a sustained dedication to protecting our workforce and elevating industry standards.

Accolade highlights include being honored as one of America’s Safest Companies by EHS Today, an elite distinction awarded to only a select group of organizations, including just two construction firms that year. At the state level, E&W has received the Kentucky Governor’s Safety and Health Award six times, demonstrating along-standing record of outstanding safety performance, regulatory compliance, and risk management. Most recently, E&W earned an Avetta Safety Award, recognizing excellence in contractor safety management and our continuedcommitment to the highest safety standards across all projects. Collectively, these honors underscore a culture in which safety is not only prioritized butalso continuously improved, measured, and embedded at every level of ourorganization.

Guidedby our core values and reinforced through our focus on Mindset +Actions =Results,East & Westbrook Construction continues to set the standard for safetyexcellence, ensuring every project is completed with the highest level of careand that every team member returns home safely.

2025 vs. 2024 Safety Performance

Our results show measurable improvement across key categories:
Vehicle Damage: 34 → 15
Property Damage: 31 → 28
Utility Damage: 9 → 1
First Aid Incidents: 12 → 11
Notice Only Incidents: 26 → 7
Recordable Incidents: 2 → 2