ValleyCrest Landscape Cos., Calabasas, Calif., celebrated its 2014 National Safety Awareness Day by rewarding four of its safe employees with new trucks. The presentation of the trucks was a part of safety events held across the country, where more than 11,000 employees gathered to recognize superior performance in workplace safety.
This is year 12 that ValleyCrest has awarded new trucks. Since the tradition began, 59 trucks have been awarded.
This year 4,167 employees across four different U.S. safety regions were eligible to enter a drawing for a new truck. To qualify, full-time field employees must complete one year of service with no preventable accidents and be employed by a branch that meets or exceeds the company’s threshold safety standards.
The four new truck winners for 2014 include: Jose Lopez, a mechanic in the maintenance division at the San Jose branch in Northern California, who’s been with the company for two years; Alberto Botello, an equipment operator in the development division at the Houston branch in Spring, Texas, who’s been with the company for 15 years; Jeffrey Yates, a spray technician in the maintenance division at the Santa Rosa Beach branch in Florida, who’s been with the company for three years; Arturo Gamboa Yangali, a crew leader in the maintenance division at the Clarksburg, Md., branch, who’s been with the company for six years.
The company earned recognition this year as one of Training Magazine’s Top 125 companies for training, ranked at 100, an annual ranking that honors organizations around the world that offer employer-sponsored workforce training and development.
ValleyCrest’s employees must follow a safety program to meet the challenges every day on thousands of customers’ job sites across the U.S. ValleyCrest’s safety training initiatives include a new-hire safety orientation; monthly training sessions for all supervisory field management; weekly safety conference calls; safety training compliance; a toll-free safety hotline and weekly tailgate meetings. In addition, the company offers quarterly safety incentives for safe work habits in this annual truck giveaway.
