Kanawha Stone Company Achieves World-Class Safety Performance Through Diamond Level ABC STEP Program

Kanawha Stone Company announced it has achieved Diamond Level in the Associated Builders and Contractors’ STEP Safety Management System. Founded more than three decades ago, STEP is a proven system that provides the framework to measure, strengthen and build industry-leading safety programs that enable top-performing ABC members to achieve incident rates nearly six times safer than the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics construction industry average.

“We are honored to receive Diamond Level status in the ABC STEP Safety Management System,” said Tom Kittredge, Kanawha Stone Company President, and CEO. “Kanawha Stone is committed to actively building health and safety into our culture, creating industry-leading, reliable safety programs that protect our employees and deliver for our clients.”

STEP participants measure their safety processes and policies on key components through a detailed questionnaire with the goal of implementing or enhancing health and safety programs that reduce jobsite incidents.

“Safety is a journey, and that journey is possible because of systems like STEP, which enables ABC member contractors like [company] to actively build health and safety into their culture, creating industry-leading, holistic safety programs to protect their workers and deliver for their clients,” said Greg Sizemore, ABC vice president of health, safety, environment, and workforce development. “STEP measures performance on key components, strengthens and expands best practices and builds safety culture. Our people are our greatest asset, and I commend Kanawha Stone Company for consistently fulfilling those commitments to raise the bar of safety performance.” According to ABC’s annual Safety Performance Report, STEP participants, regardless of company size or type of work, can reduce recordable incidents up to 83%, making the best-performing companies 576% safer than the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics industry average. Ratings range from Diamond, the highest, to Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze, and Participant. To learn more about the STEP program, visit abc.org/step.