Tag: Safety

On October 3 at Southwest Shipyard in Galveston, Texas, the Mike Hooks, LLC family and members of its leadership team had the esteemed honor of giving USACE Galveston District Commander Colonel Rhett Blackmon and his navigation leaders a full hands-on tour of its state-of-the-art vessel currently under construction, the 27-inch cutter suction dredge Lorraine Hooks, named after the family matriarch and wife of founder Mike Hooks.

During the tour Col. Blackmon…

DCA’s Council for Dredging and Marine Construction Safety (CDMCS) held a series of meetings this week in Washington, DC, including the Pipeline Task Force Meeting and its Q4 Meeting. The vision of CDMCS is striving to create a 100% injury-free workplace for the dredging and marine construction industry, with a mission of raising…

All presentations from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ 2018 National Dredging Meeting held on June 12 & 13 in Arlington, VA, will soon be available on the USACE Navigation Portal.  The safety talks given by the CDMCS, USACE, and Cottrell Contracting Corporation are available now.

CDMCS Activities and Best Practices

USACE Lessons-Learned in Safety

Cottrell Contracting Corporation’s Path to Zero