Jaynes Corporation Wins Prestigious 2025 Associated General Contractors of America Construction Safety Excellence Award

Jaynes has won the prestigious 2025 Associated General Contractors of America Construction Safety Excellence Award (AGC CSEA). Jaynes was awarded 1st place in the competitive Building Division in the 750,000 to 2.5 Million Work Hours category.

The Jaynes presentation team of Shad James, Greg Krause, Travis Massegee, Ed Marihugh, and Adam Biernacki traveled to Columbus, OH, to AGC’s 2025 Construction Safety Excellence Award convention as one of 137 other finalist companies competing for the prestigious safety awards. Competing against three other finalists—chosen after a previous national competition involving dozens of competitors—Jaynes presented our safety programs and culture to an AGC judging panel, all construction safety experts. After a 5-minute presentation on everything about Jaynes’ safety, the Jaynes team fielded questions from the judges for 15 minutes about what practices, education, training, and innovation the Jaynes Safety Team has put in place to improve our employee safety.

The Jaynes presentation team’s emphasis on our Safety Brings You Home program and the fact that safety is a core value fundamental to The Jaynes Way impressed the judging committee.

The AGC CSEA recognizes construction companies that excel at safety. The AGC award committee scrutinizes companies’ commitment to safety, occupational health management, and risk control. Unlike other safety award programs that limit the criteria to frequency rates, the CSEA judging process is more comprehensive, thoroughly examining competitors’ management commitment, employee participation, safety training and education programs, work site hazard identification and control, and safety program innovation.

“Jaynes is honored to receive the AGC Construction Safety Excellence Award. It reflects all our hard work and attention to detail,” said Shad about our safety programs. “Safety is a core value for us. The job of ensuring safety never ends, but our Safety Brings You Home program, our training and education efforts, how we value mentorship, and our focus on employee well-being are all part of our ongoing vigilance to ensure every employee gets home safely.”

Greg Krause said about the award, “It’s exciting to win the CSEA. I think everyone at Jaynes is proud that the efforts at safety and employee well-being we take so seriously are recognized as effective. We are always looking to improve safety, as it’s a fact of life in construction that no one can take safety for granted. This award shows that employee safety is fundamental to everything we do.”

The auditorium stage was alight announcing Jaynes as the winner of AGC’s CSEA for the Building Division category in the 500,000 to 1.5 Million hours project category.

Management’s commitment to safety was a major grading element of the competition. About the award, Travis Massegee said, “Our management team has helped ensure that safety is intertwined with everything we do, from pre-construction planning to project delivery. Safe projects are almost always successful projects that Owners say were efficient and positive. Safety and project success go hand in hand.”

The Jaynes presentation team in Columbus stressed that Jaynes prioritizes employee safety through a holistic lens—with our on-site healthcare clinic, the Industrial Athlete program, continually evolving safety training, project site visits from the Jaynes Safety Team with their ubiquitous Mobile Safety Classroom Trailer, and the value our field managers place on mentorship and their focus on site safety were all important components of Jaynes’ win.

Shad also mentioned that the Jaynes “… focus on safety never ends. The award is great recognition for our team, but tomorrow we go back to work, and the things we learned at this award conference will be analyzed to see how the great safety innovations other competitors presented can make Jaynes even safer.”

The presentation team also highlighted our long-term commitment to safety, as evidenced by our first-place wins in the AGC Construction Safety Excellence Awards competition in 2012 and 2015.