Safety: Our Highest Priority

At Ligon & Ligon, people are priority one, and employee safety is the most important demonstration of our commitment.  Our award-winning safety program captures each worker during pre-employment and continues actively to shape every activity we do, every day.  We continue to invest in safety – with more than $300,000 spent on PPE in the past five years averaging $6,000 per employee – and our disciplined focus on safety has been rewarded with earning a Workers Compensation Modification Rating among the lowest in the industry and achieving consistent trends in increased productivity and revenue growth.

Pre-Employment Safety

• Interview and References Pre-Screening
• Background Check
• E-Verify Documentation
• Certified Driving Record (as applicable)
• FMCSA Clearinghouse Good Standing (as applicable)
• DOT-Regulated Drug Test

New Employee Safety

• Day-One-One-on-One Safety Orientation for all new hires
• Training on Tools, PPE, Trenching, Confined Space, Respiratory Protection, Material Safety, Hazardous Atmospheres and General Site Hazards

Annual Employee Safety Training

Our Dedicated Safety Training Classroom Facility

• Certified independent instructors
• Trenching and Utility Damage Prevention
• OSHA 30-Hour certification and OSHA Subpart P
• First Aid and CPR
• Rigging & Signaling
• Confined Space
• Silica Awareness/Respirator Use
• Oil Spill & Environmental Awareness/Hazwoper
• Defensive Driving
• Active Shooter Response

Excavation Support Standards

• Our work typically involves unusual underground conditions, and there is a heavy emphasis on safe excavation practices. Ligon maintains an extensive digest of engineered trenching standards to aid our competent-person foremen in selecting correct trench shoring methods for each project condition

Job-Specific Safety Training

• Public Utility Gas Operator Qualifications (OQ) certifications
• Operator certifications for Ligon heavy equipment and mechanized tools
• Hazard analysis that identifies the work activities, related hazards and applicable prevention standards
• safety performance and lessons learned from incidents and near-miss events
• Bi-Monthly Jobsite Inspections by independent safety management consultant

Annual incentive bonus for front-line supervisors who succeed in accident prevention and achieving company safety goals

Zero-Tolerance Drug & Alcohol Prevention Program

Robust Infectious Disease/COVID-19 Awareness/PPE Response

Our Commitment 

• Ligon & Ligon, Inc. is committed to the quality completion of our construction projects in a safe manner
• The independent ISNetworld has reviewed and approved our health & safety programs, insurance coverage & limits, and quality program to assure our clients that Ligon & Ligon, Inc. is a capable and qualified construction partner.
• Ligon & Ligon, Inc. uses Quality Management System (QMS) which uses ISO 9001:2015 as a framework