M.C. Dean Elected by American National Standards Institute (ANSI) to Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems Accredited Standards Committee

Safety Leadership Cited

DULLES, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--M.C. Dean, the nation’s leading engineering and technology firm for mission critical systems and facilities, has been accepted as a full, voting member of the American National Standards Institute/American Industrial Hygiene Association Z10 Accredited Standards Committee.

The committee was formed by the American National Standards Institute with the American Industrial Hygiene Association as its Secretariat in 1999. Committee members come from a broad range of organizations, including: industry, government, professional, labor, and general interest. ANSI-Z10 is a set of voluntary national consensus standards on occupational health and safety management systems designed to enhance those systems already in place.

John Bennett, M.C. Dean’s vice president of Safety, will be the company’s representative to the committee. Bennett played a pivotal role in implementing the ANSI-Z10 framework into M.C. Dean’s own Operational Risk Management System that has been highly successful in bringing the company to the forefront of safety and risk management leadership in its respective industry. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command and the United States Army Corps of Engineers both use M.C. Dean as an example of “safest contractor on site” since the company incorporated ANSI-Z10 into its Operational Risk Management System that resulted in dramatic improvements in safety practices.

As a result of the success M.C. Dean has had utilizing ANSI-Z10, the company will be leading the team responsible for writing the contractor best-practice appendix to the standards. The appendix will provide guidance on implementing ANSI-Z10 for all users, including: construction, laboratories, vendors, suppliers, and operation and maintenance companies. This will prove most beneficial to organizations looking to incorporate the standards into their own programs, as M.C. Dean serves as a model of success for how ANSI-Z10 can impact on-the-job improvement in occupational health and safety programs.

About M.C. Dean, Inc.

M.C. Dean Inc. is an engineering and technology service firm for mission-critical systems and facilities. Founded in 1949, M.C. Dean has set the industry standard for design-build-maintain programs in mission-critical electrical infrastructure, telecommunications, instrumentation and control, and security and electronic systems. Headquartered in Dulles, Va., M.C. Dean employs more than 3,500 professionals in 30 offices worldwide. For more information, see www.mcdean.com.