\u201cWe have started a process that hopefully will be there forevermore.\u201d<\/p>\n
Flatiron Procurement Manager Zubin Taraporevala cannot contain his pride about something special he helped bring to fruition: the first class 3 safety vest for women in North America (certified in both the U.S. and Canada). The first units are on their way to Flatiron projects. They will go into service in early October.<\/p>\n
The innovative products were a team effort between Procurement, Flatiron\u2019s Diversity & Inclusion Growth Group (DIGG) and Safety. These groups jointly requested the vests from the manufacturer Radians, and gave feedback as the product was under development. <\/span>Five female project staff tested the prototypes in the field, and gave feedback as well.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is about continuous improvement in safety. If you\u2019re walking around in an ill-fitting vest and something on your vest gets caught while you\u2019re on the project site, that\u2019s obviously not safe,\u201d Taraporevala explains.<\/p>\n Construction Engineer Manager and DIGG Chair Jamie Dodd also points out that the vest will help deliver the message that female employees are valuable. \u201cThis will be important to create a sense of belonging,\u201d she says. \u201cIf the industry doesn\u2019t provide safety apparel that fits certain people, those individuals feel like they don\u2019t belong in the industry.\u201d<\/p>\n Besides getting Radians to produce the PPE, the distributor Fastenal will keep a supply on hand for Flatiron\u2019s future needs. Other companies will be able to purchase the vests as well to keep their own workers safe.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is something the industry has needed for decades,\u201d says Dodd.<\/p>\n Taraporevala echoes that sentiment:\u201cThis is something that allows Flatiron to remain on the cutting edge in heavy construction.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cWe have started a process that hopefully will be there forevermore.\u201d Flatiron Procurement Manager Zubin Taraporevala cannot contain his pride about something special he helped bring to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":5697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,41],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-5688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-at-flatiron","category-safety-and-environment","tag-featured"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}