Safety-Quality-Production

At Mascaro:

• We believe that safety, quality, and productivity are inseparable. We must deliver on these values if a project is to be considered a success.
• We believe that the quality assurance / quality control process is integral to our way of doing work. Our director of quality works with senior project management to delegate on-site quality control responsibilities, and efficiently implement the project-specific quality control plan.
• Safety is a core value and is an integral part of our company’s culture.

Safety

We recognize that our people are our most valuable resource. Their safety is of principle concern at all levels of management. Every responsible effort is made by Mascaro to maintain a safe and healthful workplace for our employees, subcontractors, clients, their employees, and the general public. The steps we take to create this safety environment are detailed on our Safety Approach page.

In recognition of our efforts, Mascaro has won numerous awards for Safety Excellence from the Master Builders' Association of Western Pennsylvania (MBA). The MBA also nominated Mascaro for the AGC Construction Safety Excellence Award in the Building 100,000 – 500,000 Man-Hours category. Our OSHA partnership agreement through the MBA reinforces our commitment to job site safety.

Quality

Mascaro’s project-specific quality control and / or quality assurance plans are designed, implemented, and maintained in conformance with project requirements. Our plans conform with ICRA and USACE requirements for institutional projects, 10CFR 50 – Appendix B and ASME NQA-1 on our nuclear projects (safety and non-safety related work), PennDOT 408 for highway projects, and NAVLAP guiding principles and LEED requirements for all other projects as required. The plans address product submittal and approval control, procurement control, contract document control, change directives, material delivery and storage control, installation workmanship standards, testing and inspection, as well as photography and document control. The project-specific plans establish quality assurance activities at the earliest time possible and are consistent with the schedule to accomplish the activities in a successful manner from start to finish.

The cornerstone to achieving quality is preparing a QA/QC plan at the very beginning of the project and executing the plan throughout the duration of the project. Quality in construction is not something that is just created; quality must be inherent in the design to be achieved in the field. Therefore, to produce the best quality in both design and construction, our goal is to “build the project on paper” to minimize any surprises once construction begins, and know the job better than anyone else. The better prepared we are going into a project, the more time we can spend constructing the project.