Celebrating 5.75 Million Hours Without a Lost Time Accident

A Safety Milestone Built by People, Planning, and Pride

Wayne Brothers is proud to announce a major company milestone: 5.75 million work hours without a lost time accident.

For a construction and engineering company working across demanding jobsite environments, this achievement is rare. Wayne Brothers performs complex work throughout the Southeast, supporting clients across the Carolinas, Tennessee, Georgia, Virginia, and surrounding markets. From concrete, sitework and geostructural solutions to industrial services, piping, millwright, fabrication, and engineering, the company’s teams operate in environments where planning, communication, and personal accountability matter every day.

“This milestone belongs to our people,” said Keith Wayne, CEO. “You do not reach 5.75 million hours without a lost time accident because of luck. It happens when crews take ownership, leaders stay engaged, and everyone knows that going home safe is the most important part of the day.”

That mindset is built into the way Wayne Brothers approaches work. Teammates are encouraged to identify hazards, ask questions, and stop work when something does not look or feel right. Safety is part of how the work is planned, discussed, and executed from the start.

The company’s current safety performance includes 5.75 million work hours without a lost time accident, a 0.54 EMR, and a 0.0 TRIR. Those results are from consistent effort across field operations, project management, safety leadership, training, and support teams.

While their safety performance over the past several years has been excellent and well above industry standards, they know the only way to keep improving is to keep challenging themselves. They have recently began implementing Mindset Safety. Most incidents do not happen because someone doesn’t know the rule. They happen when people are rushed, distracted, frustrated, tired, or pushing through something that does not feel right. Mindset Safety is about awareness. Awareness of your own state of mind and awareness of what is happening around you.

Building a Mindset Safety culture means committing to a workplace where injuries and incidents are not acceptable at any level. This mindset does not tolerate any incident, no matter how small or how often it happens. Instead of only focusing on what to avoid, the program will focus on creating the desired safe outcomes. In this culture, people work safely not because they are afraid of getting in trouble, but because safety becomes a personal value and the right thing to do.

Wayne Brothers is proud to celebrate 5.75 million safe work hours and remains committed to protecting its people, strengthening its teams, and building safely across the Southeast.

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