Webber’s Ground Solutions Group
Safety First
Our Safety Goal
Our goal at Webber’s Ground Solutions Group is zero injuries on every job site. Groundworks and landscaping involve heavy equipment, excavation, underground utilities, and changing weather and terrain, and we know the work carries real risk. We treat safety as part of how we plan, price, and perform every job not as an extra step added at the end. Every employee, from the field crew to leadership, is responsible for their own safety and for the safety of the people around them. We hold ourselves accountable when things go wrong. Every incident and near-miss is investigated, and what we learn is built back into our planning, training, and procedures.
We make sure every detail is handled correctly well before any equipment arrives on site. Every job starts with a unique, site-specific safety plan that maps out local hazards and control methods, backed by deep-dive hazard analyses for our highest-risk tasks. Before we break ground, we always coordinate with NC 811 to trace utility lines and double-check those markings live in the field, while pre-planning our site entry, traffic flow, and gear staging to keep the public and our crews completely safe. Once work begins, we keep our teams sharp by putting all new hires through a safety orientation and ensuring our field leaders hold proper OSHA 10 or 30-hour cards. Only fully trained, certified operators handle our heavy machinery, and we hold daily or weekly toolbox talks to review the immediate job ahead. Finally, whenever we dig, a designated competent person stays on site to oversee the excavation and trenching work from start to finish.
We take care of our equipment and protect our teams by inspecting all gear before each use and keeping up with regular maintenance schedules. Any broken or defective tools are immediately tagged out and removed from the job site until they are completely fixed. Depending on the job, everyone on site must wear the right personal protective equipment, which includes hard hats, bright clothes, safety glasses, ear protection, gloves, and sturdy boots. For digging work, a designated competent person checks the excavation area before anyone goes inside, and we use sloping or shoring to protect against cave-ins based on the soil type. If a utility line accidentally gets damaged, our crews are fully trained on exactly how to respond safely. Most importantly, every worker on our sites has the power and duty to stop work immediately if they see something dangerous. No one gets in trouble for stopping a job in good faith, and work only starts again after the hazard is fixed and checked. If an injury, property damage, or near-miss happens, it must be reported right away to a supervisor and to our Director of Health & Safety, Tony Richer, at Tony.Richer@webbersgroupnc.com. We investigate every incident to find the root cause and prevent it from happening again. Finally, every project site has a clear emergency plan that details local medical facilities, first aid tools, and fire response steps, and we brief our crews on these details before any work begins.