One safety contact
For every Magellan company on your project. One phone number, one set of documents, one escalation path.
Safety & Compliance
Our safety program isn’t outsourced. It’s a company we own.
Ask most underground contractors who runs their safety program and the answer is a third-party consultant on a monthly retainer. Ours is Magellan Utilities Construction — inside the group, accountable to the group.
Why it matters
A rented safety program is a document. An owned one is a habit.
An outside consultant writes the manual, visits monthly and leaves. The crews go back to whatever they were doing. That is how a company passes an audit and still has incidents.
Because Magellan Utilities Construction sits inside the group, the people who write the program are the people who answer for it. They onboard every new hire, inspect every jobsite and certify every operator — across all our companies, not one at a time.
For a buyer, the practical consequence is simple: whichever of our crews shows up, they were trained by the same people, to the same standard, and the documentation looks the same.
The program
What runs on every job.
Before the job
- New hire training and onboarding, standard across all companies
- Written safety plan, reviewed per project and per site
- 811 locates and utility verification before any excavation
- Traffic control and permit review
During and after
- Daily and weekly jobsite safety inspections
- Qualified work practices, PPE and stop-work authority for every crew member
- Ongoing certification through Magellan Training Academy
- Compliance audit by entity — licenses, insurance, bonding
Standards, prequalification systems and associations our companies work within
For prime contractors
What you get when you qualify us.
Prequalification package
Licenses, certificates of insurance, bonding capacity, ISN, W-9 and diversity certification — for whichever entity you are qualifying, or for the group.
Consistent documentation
Certified payroll, daily reports and production tracking out of the same system, whichever company is on the job.