Safety is not a department — it is a culture
In 22 years of construction, we have never had a serious on-site incident. That is not luck. It is the result of a deliberate, top-down safety culture that starts with leadership and extends to every subcontractor who sets foot on a Cornerstone site.
Too many construction firms treat safety as a compliance exercise — a box to tick, a poster on the wall, a toolbox talk nobody listens to. We treat it as the foundation of everything we do. If a site is not safe, it is not productive. If a worker is worried about their safety, they are not doing their best work.
What we do differently
Every Cornerstone project begins with a site-specific safety plan developed by our VCA-certified safety officers. This is not a template — it is a document tailored to the risks of that particular build, that particular site, and that particular team.
Weekly safety walks are conducted by senior management, not delegated to junior staff. When the CEO walks a site looking at safety, it sends a message that no project deadline outweighs a worker going home safe.
The numbers
Our incident rate is 0.3 per 100,000 hours worked — well below the Dutch construction industry average of 2.1. We have maintained VCA** certification continuously since 2010, and every Cornerstone employee completes a minimum of 16 hours of safety training annually.
A safe site is a well-managed site. The two are inseparable.
Our commitment
We will never compromise safety for speed. If a deadline must slip to maintain safe working conditions, it slips. Our clients understand this because they know that a safely built structure is a well-built structure.