The Pernix team is dedicated to providing a healthy and safe workplace for all of its employees, subcontractor personnel and building occupants. Safety awareness and enforcement begins with the acknowledgment and combined support of Pernix's Senior Management and Board of Directors. Safety is our number one concern and we take it very seriously.

Pernix continuously develops and improves our training and incentive programs that are designed to reward our employees and subcontracting teams for putting safety first. Our safety management program utilizes a proactive approach and is designed to prevent unnecessary work delays, which results in saving time and money and, most importantly, keeps your work site injury-free.

As a general rule, Pernix jobs are all different and it is a number one priority to assign a safety officer, assess each job, and design a customized safety plan for each job site. Today, all Pernix jobs have a designated, specially trained safety officer on site. When customizing our safety plans for site specific requirements, Pernix incorporates all client required programs, but then takes it a step further and is able to offer award winning safety plans.

While our systems are proven daily as effective in minimizing safety risk exposure, what helps maintain our excellent track record is that we understand this is a fluid process and needs to be proactively maintained through continuous risk identification, processes improvement, compliance enforcement and overall system monitoring.

Our safety programs include regular consultation with owners; weekly meetings; safety induction seminars; regular internal and external training; monthly risk assessments; structured incident and accident reporting requirements; quarterly internal safety audits and management systems to ensure that our subcontractors meet all our safety criteria prior to coming onto our project sites.

Many of our personnel have undergone extensive OSHA training by the University of California at San Diego. A group of our employees have also undergone a train the trainer program and obtained certifications from OSHA as trainers. Pernix incorporates OSHA standards in our job sites and work locations even if OSHA does not have jurisdiction in the country where the job is located.

Construction Safety

Pernix's safety program and our construction staff have been effective at limiting the number of incurred injuries. When it comes to safety, numbers count -- for example we earned a prestigious award from the U.S. Department of State for working over 1,000,000 man-hours without a disabling injury for more than 2 years in a row.

Power Safety

We employ the strictest safety requirements in our Power Stations. From the point of entry into our plants to daily operations, our employees and guests are subjected to the most rigorous safety procedures. This has been reflected through our excellent safety record. We institute regular meetings with owners, keeping them apprised of systems in place to help our operations team meet and exceed all safety expectations.