EMCOR Group, Inc. Recognizes Company-Wide Achievement At Annual Senior Management Conference
-- Awards Acknowledge Excellence in Safety and Craftsmanship --
NORWALK, CONNECTICUT, November 6, 2007 - EMCOR Group, Inc. (NYSE: EME), a Fortune 500® leader in mechanical and electrical construction, energy infrastructure and facilities services for a diverse range of businesses globally, recently recognized a number of its subsidiaries for their achievement of safety and service excellence.
EMCOR celebrated 60 Safety and Craftsman awards at its 2007 Management Conference in Dallas, Texas. The awards reflect industry and client recognition of EMCOR’s work as well as the Company’s continuing commitment to the safety goal of zero accidents and its dedication to providing industry-leading service to its clients.
“EMCOR’s companies are consistently recognized for their quality work, which is delivered with a rare combination of skill, dedication, and a passion for safety. We are very proud to recognize all of these achievements and congratulate our entire team of 27,000 professionals for their continued commitment to excellence,” said Frank T. MacInnis, Chairman and CEO of EMCOR Group.
EMCOR’s dedication to safety has long been an important strategic goal. One of the many platforms to accomplish this is the Company’s “Be There for Life” program, which educates Company employees on the importance of safety in the workplace and relates safety to important moments in life, such as being there for a child’s first steps or graduation.
Safety milestones recently achieved and/or received by EMCOR and its subsidiaries include:
- The entire Company worked 35 million more labor hours in 2006 than in 1999 without any increase in OSHA recordable accidents.
- The Company reduced overexertion type injuries by 32% over a 24-month period ending June 2007.
- Employees of Design Air have worked accident-free for more than 27 years on its Port of Seattle projects.
- EMCOR Facilities Services–UK worked 3 million labor hours without a reportable accident.
- University Mechanical & Engineering Contractors (UMEC) in Arizona has worked 2 million labor hours with no lost-time accidents and 1 million labor hours without a recordable injury. UMEC also received awards from: MCAA Safety Statistics Program (Safety Excellence Award for “Zero Lost Workday cases”); SMACNA (First Place for 500,000+ man-hours for safety excellence and statistics program); Arizona Subcontractors Association (“Company of the Year”, for safety performance).
- Shambaugh & Son received an MICCS Safety Achievement Award, as well as an MICCS Safety Leader Award.
- EMCOR Services Aircond was recognized by the Air Conditioning Contractors of America Safety Masters Club for outstanding commitment to safety in the workplace.
- EMCOR Services Fluidics was recognized by the General Building Contractors Association, receiving a Construction Safety Excellence Safety Award.
- EMCOR Services New England Mechanical was honored with an ABC Platinum Level STEP Award for Safety.
- The Poole and Kent Corporation received a MCAA Safety Statistics Program Award of Safety Excellence.
- Trautman & Shreve was recognized by the MCAA for Safety Excellence, with an incident rate below the 25% industry average. They also received the National AGC Construction Safety Excellence Award --- Specialty Contractor in the 750,000 – 1 million man-hours category.
In all, 26 EMCOR companies have been recognized by a number of sources externally as well as internally for their recent safety achievements. In addition, 18 companies earned a number of industry awards and citations for excellence in delivering facilities management, electrical and mechanical construction, and operations and repair services for clients across a wide range of job sites, market sectors, and geographies.
“While our unwavering goal is zero accidents across all our companies, we are also committed to achieving behavioral change among all our employees so that safety becomes a part of their lives both in and outside of the workplace,” said Dave Copley, Vice President, Safety and Quality Management for EMCOR Group, Inc.
EMCOR’s commitment to safety is part of a multi-tiered, integrated approach that includes improving quality and productivity. Through its Safety and Quality Management (SQM) Department, the Company’s zero-accident program covers its more than 75 subsidiary companies and 27,000 employees. The program involves safety performance visits by SQM professionals to all levels of the organization, including top field management, administration, field supervision and labor. Augmenting the program is the “EMCOR Productivity Plus Road Show”, an innovative, in-field program designed to educate EMCOR employees how to ‘change the way they work’ in order to reduce risk, fatigue and injury and to increase productivity.
About EMCOR Group, Inc.
A Fortune 500 company with over $5.0 billion in annual revenues, EMCOR Group, Inc. (NYSE: EME) is a global leader in mechanical and electrical construction, energy infrastructure, and facilities services. EMCOR gives life to new structures and sustains life in existing ones by its planning, installing, operating and maintaining the sophisticated and dynamic systems that create facility environments---such as electrical, mechanical, lighting, air conditioning, heating, security and power generation systems---in virtually every sector of the economy and for a diverse range of businesses around the world. EMCOR represents a rare combination of global reach with local execution, combining the strength of an industry leader with the knowledge and care of 140 locations worldwide. The 27,000 skilled employees of EMCOR have made the company, in the eyes of leading business publications, amongst America’s “Most Admired” and “Best Performing.” EMCOR’s diversity---in terms of the services it provides, the industries it serves and the geography it spans---has enabled it to create a stable platform for sustained results. The Company’s strong financial position has enabled it to attract and retain among the best local and regional talent, to undertake and complete the most ambitious projects, and to redefine and shape the future of the construction and facilities services industry.
This release may contain certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Reform Act of 1995. Any such comments are based upon information available to EMCOR management’s perception thereof, as of this date, and EMCOR assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements may include statements regarding market opportunities, market share growth, gross profit, project mix, projects with varying profit margins, and selling, general and administrative expenses. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. Accordingly these statements are no guarantee of future performance. Such risk and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, adverse effects of general economic conditions, changes in the political environment, changes in the specific markets for EMCOR’s services, adverse business conditions, availability of adequate levels of surety bonding, increased competition, unfavorable labor productivity, mix of business, and risks associated with foreign operations. Certain of the risks and factors associated with EMCOR’s business are also discussed in the Company’s 2006 Form 10-K, its Form 10-Q for the third quarter ended September 30, 2007, and in other reports filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All these risks and factors should be taken into account in evaluating any forward-looking statements.
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