National builder Suffolk announced a strategic partnership with Arrowsight, a safety technology company specializing in video-based behavioral modification and coaching analytics, to help protect workers and reduce claims on construction jobsites across the United States.
Arrowsight uses fixed-point cameras and human-led video review to flag both risky and exemplary safety behaviors each day on jobsites, enabling timely coaching and adjustments together with Suffolk’s corporate and project safety teams. The Arrowsight system is designed with moveable, battery-powered and cell-enabled camera systems that can operate even without electricity or internet, essential for rugged, complex jobsites.
This partnership makes Suffolk the first major construction company in the US to adopt this system across all contractor-controlled insurance program construction projects. This follows Suffolk’s participation in a multiyear pilot of the cameras-plus-coaching technology conducted by Zurich North America and Zurich Resilience Solutions. Across the pilot, Zurich reported a 50%-plus reduction in workers compensation claim frequency, a key indicator of worker safety, on sites using the cameras-plus-coaching combination.
“Suffolk saw approximately four times fewer claims and 10 times lower incurred losses on our projects in this pilot. Arrowsight’s daily coaching reports, flagged videos and bi-weekly coaching sessions with our field staff made an enormous impact on the safety of our job sites. Based on the results, it made perfect sense to expand the use of the system in a formal partnership,” said Doug Ware, senior vice president of risk management of Suffolk.
“We greatly appreciate that Suffolk was a key participant in the groundbreaking Zurich pilot and look forward to supporting Suffolk as the first large building construction manager in the U.S. to roll out our Intelligent Video Coaching services to all their contractor controlled insurance program projects in an effort to keep their workers safer all around the U.S.,” said Adam Aronson, founder and CEO of Arrowsight.
