SMART Members Fill 8 0f 10 Top Ranks

Date: April 15, 2009

Each year, the Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) ranks companies according to their Experience Modification Rating (EMR).* Firms with the lowest EMR rank first on the list.

In 2009, eight of the top ten construction companies on the list are SMART members, participants of the Dream Team and A-Team Retro Groups. The following mmebers, ranked in order, head the list of almost 30,000 construction companies in Washington State:

Turner Construction Company; TC Professional Services LLC
Apollo, Inc.; Apollo Sheet Metal, Inc.
Tri-State Construction
Jorve Corporation
Nuprecon, LP
Parsons RCI, Inc.; RCI Environmental, Inc.
MacDonald Miller Facility
Fox Company, Inc.

Turner Construction Company leads the Dream Team Retro Group with the lowest EMR and Fox Company heads up the A-Team Retro Group.

For the construction industry, the median EMR for 2009 is 0.90. By comparison, the eight SMART members in the construction industry Top 10 each have EMRs below 0.50 - an outstanding accomplishment, and a testimony to their commitment to providing a safe workplace.

*An EMR is the measurement used by L&I to determine the amount of industrial insurance premium a company must pay to the Department. The rating reflects a company's safety record. The Department initially assigns all companies an EMR of 1.00 and after three years, the rating may increase or decrease based on the number of workplace injuries and claims.

New companies are assigned an EMR of 1.00 until they have been in business long enough (usually between two and three years) for L&I to evaluate their safety performance and adjust their EMR accordingly.

For more information about SMART Association retro groups, please click here.

 

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