Every accident is preventable. Safety supersedes schedule, cost or circumstance. That's not a poster on a wall at Dawson. It's the way every project starts and the reason every crew member finishes the day the same way they began it.
Every Dawson project starts with pre-task planning. Every crew runs daily toolbox talks. Every team trains on the high-energy hazards that can take a life: falls, struck-by, caught-in-between, energized systems, heavy equipment. The industry calls them STCKY, Stuff That Can Kill You. We respect them by training for them every day, not one week a year.
On the Friday of Construction Safety Week 2026, our Bellingham crew gathered at the campus yard. Full team out. Harness rigged on the JLG. Real practice for a worst-case fall. Suspension trauma straps deployed. Our safety team led the rescue protocol. The drill is not the point. The reflex is the point.
Dawson's five-year EMR trend is 0.66. Our TRIR stays below 1.65. Both well under the construction industry average. In 2025 our EMR was 0.76 with zero lost-time incidents, the fifth consecutive year of zero LTI. Zero regulatory complaints in the last five years across OSHA, Washington L&I, WSHA, WDFW, WDOE and every county inspector who has walked our sites. On the BP Cherry Point Refinery we logged 230,000+ hours without a single OSHA recordable. Refinery Project Manager Dan Abbey put it plainly: we did not even record a first aid incident. Numbers like that come from a culture, not a checklist.
917 projects since 1967. Sixty percent of the work self-performed by our own crews. Three generations of owners who put their names on what we build.
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