Portland, ME – Sullivan & Merritt Constructors Inc., of Hermon, has won a 2023 MEMIC Award for Excellence in Safety and Sugarloaf Mountain Resort, of Carrabassett Valley, has won a 2023 MEMIC Award for Excellence in Injury Management. The awards honor best practices in workforce safety, injury management, and workforce partnership.
Sullivan & Merritt Constructors Inc. won its 2023 MEMIC Award for Excellence in Safety by steadily implementing a program that has improved the company’s safety performance. The company holds an annual all-supervisors safety meeting each May with 50 to 60 supervisors and managers convening to focus on safety, emphasizing industry trends and its own past injury performance. Charlie Mitchell and Ryan Levesque lead the company’s safety department with day-to-day worksite safety operations, overseen by front-line supervisors.
MEMIC safety management consultant, Rodney Stanley, said the company’s efforts have paid off. Sullivan & Merritt’s experience modification rating – an industry metric that measures a policyholder’s past workers’ compensation claim costs as well as the probability of future additional claim costs – is now less than half the national average for all employers. Its lost time incident rate – measuring staff hours lost to workplace injury – also is less than half the national average.
“Sullivan and Merritt has shown great improvement and dedication to their safety program,” said Woodrow W. Cross II, an independent insurance agent with The Cross Insurance Agency – Bangor. “They are committed to a safe workplace for all employees and have worked closely with MEMIC’s safety teams to implement such practices.”
Founded in 1994, The MEMIC Award for Excellence in Safety goes to employers considered best of more than 20,000 MEMIC policyholders at deeply integrating workforce safety into their culture to prevent on-the-job injuries, increase labor productivity, and relentlessly improve work practices at all levels.
The MEMIC Awards were given to Maine-based winners at the Annual Meeting of Policyholders in Portland on June 12.
