Region 3 (From left to right): ValleyCrest Landscape Companies Regional Safety Manager Ken Kasan, ValleyCrest Landscape Maintenance Santa Rosa Beach Branch Spray Technician and Region 3 Truck Winner Jeffrey Yates, ValleyCrest Landscape Maintenance Santa Rosa Beach Branch Operations Manager Steve Brackin, ValleyCrest Landscape Maintenance South East Region Vice President Michael Dozier.ValleyCrest Landscape Companies celebrated its 2014 National Safety Awareness Day by rewarding four of its employees with new trucks.
More than 11,000 employees gathered to recognize workplace safety across a variety of events held across the country.
This will be the 12th year ValleyCrest has given the trucks, which means a total of 59 have been awarded.
This year 4,167 employees across four different U.S. safety regions were eligible to enter a drawing for a new truck. To qualify, full-time field employees must complete one-year of service with no preventable accidents and be employed by a branch that meets or exceeds the company’s threshold safety standards.
The four new truck winners for 2014 include:
- Jose Lopez, a mechanic in the Maintenance Division at the San Jose branch in Northern California, who’s been with the company for two years
- Alberto Botello, an Equipment Operator in the Development Division at the Houston branch in Spring, Texas, who’s been with the company for 15 years.
- Jeffrey Yates, a Spray Technician in the Maintenance Division at the Santa Rosa Beach branch in Florida, who’s been with the company for three years.
- Arturo Gamboa Yangali, a Crew Leader in the Maintenance Division at the Clarksburg branch in Maryland, who’s been with the company for six years.
ValleyCrest’s employees must follow a strict safety program in order to meet the challenges faced every day on thousands of customer’s job sites across the United States. ValleyCrest’s safety training initiatives include a new-hire safety orientation; monthly training sessions for all supervisory field management; weekly safety conference calls; safety training compliance; a toll-free safety hotline and weekly tailgate meetings.
In addition, the company offers quarterly safety incentives for safe work habits culminating in this annual truck giveaway.
 Region 1 (From left to right): ValleyCrest Landscape Maintenance Senior Vice President Dave Hanson , ValleyCrest Landscape Maintenance San Jose Branch Mechanic and Region 1 Truck Winner Jose Lopez, ValleyCrest Landscape Maintenance San Jose Branch Senior Manager Mike Carter. |
 Region 2 (From left to right): ValleyCrest Landscape Development Houston Branch Operations Manager Ed Mauser, ValleyCrest Landscape Development Houston Branch Safety Officer Jacoppo Balderrama, ValleyCrest Landscape Development Houston Branch Equipment Operator and Region 2 Truck Winner Alberto Botello, ValleyCrest Landscape Development President Tom Donnelly, ValleyCrest Landscape Development Austin Region Vice President Jeff Lennon, ValleyCrest Landscape Companies Regional Safety Manager Mike Taylor. |
 Region 4 (From left to right): ValleyCrest Landscape Companies Director of Safety & Environmental Health Bill Scully, ValleyCrest Landscape Companies CEO Roger Zino, ValleyCrest Landscape Maintenance DC Metro Regional Branch Safety Officer Nestor Fernandez, ValleyCrest Landscape Maintenance Clarksburg Branch Crew Leader and Region 4 truck winner Arturo Gamboa Yangali, ValleyCrest Landscape Maintenance Clarksburg Branch Operations Manager/Safety Officer John DeNoma, ValleyCrest Landscape Maintenance DC Metro Region Vice President/Regional Manager Wayne Shiveley, ValleyCrest Landscape Maintenance Clarksburg Branch Manager Ty Trent. |
