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Summit Materials Leverages Avetta to Strengthen Safety Culture, Increasing Compliance by 35%
Industry
Materials
Region
USA
Solutions
Analytics
Contractor Compliance
Contractor Management
Contractor Prequalification
About Summit Materials
Headquarters: Denver, Colorado
Domain: Aggregate Materials, Ready Mix Concrete, Cement, Paving Construction, Asphalt, and Construction
Avetta Customer Type: Hiring Client
Website: www.summit-materials.com/
Company Profile
Summit Materials is a market-leading producer of aggregates and cement with vertically integrated operations that supply ready-mix concrete and asphalt in select markets. The company is a geographically diverse, materials-led business of scale that offers customers in the United States and British Columbia, Canada high quality products and services for the public infrastructure, residential, and non-residential end markets.
Challenges in Compliance Management
After going through two acquisitions, Summit Materials underwent a transformation throughout the organization. Integrating cultures proved to be a time-intensive endeavor, shifting the focus on contractor compliance to several other tasks that came along with the merger. However, internal stakeholders recognized the potential of collaborating with the Avetta program and understood that driving increased adoption could significantly improve safety metrics.
The Avetta Experience
After their second acquisition, Summit Materials’ internal team underwent large processes changes. Understanding the difficulty in tracking compliance and managing risk with hundreds of contractors in their network, internal stakeholders began discussing the Avetta program internally, creating awareness through training and new policies.
Using a phased approach, Summit Materials rolled out the Avetta platform to a new business unit, onboarding their haulers, covering 12 sites and a network of 700 contractors. They are currently in the process of introducing Avetta to their 23 terminals and additional sites that came with the acquisition. In the past year with the engagement of different business units and sites, more than 360 connections were added and strengthened their internal safety culture in the process. Summit Materials values the importance of safety in the workplace and mitigating risk has been a focus of the organization.
Benefits Experienced
Centralized Tracking of MSA Contracts: With hundreds of contractors in each business unit, tracking Site Access Agreements is now easier than ever. A manual process that was done by email is now saved on the Avetta platform, with more than 70% of their site access agreements tracked. By centralizing key information, Summit Materials can save time as they no longer must manually track down documentation as well as giving visibility to any user that needs to access this information with a simple login to the platform.
Improved Compliance: Internal changes have strengthened the safety culture within Summit Materials, and the numbers can show the impact internal training has had. In the past year, the team has seen a 35% increase in compliance within their supply chain. This improved compliance should lead to stronger safety metrics, helping save the company time and money. Sites are now looking into different ways to enforce consequences, with API integrations and individual level qualification as well.
Scalability for Future Growth: With the ability to handle prequalification globally, Summit has been able to steadily grow adoption of the Avetta platform across business units and locations. Looking forward, the team is planning to scale up their Avetta product usage, eyeing Worker Management to track worker level qualifications as the next tool they’d like to implement. Handling several aspects of supply chain risk in one centralized platform has made it easier to rapidly increase user adoption throughout the organization.
Conclusion
Centralizing prequalification information for hundreds of contractors across business units has done wonders to strengthen the safety culture within Summit Materials. Onboarding hundreds of contractors provided a centralized view of compliance status and allowed the team to improve compliance by 35%. Their partnership with Avetta provides greater visibility into prequalification and allows Summit Materials to holistically manage supply chain risk, now and in the future.