We are proud of our exemplary safety record and ability to maintain rates below the industry average for engineering services per the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR) | 0.46 | 0.26 | 0.36 | 0.26 | 0.21 |
| Days Away Restricted Time Incident Rate (DART) | 0.18 | 0.15 | 0.11 | 0.13 | 0.13 |
| Experience Modification Rate (EMR) | 0.75 | 0.69 | 0.62 | 0.59 | 0.71 |
Michael Baker employees are required to complete mandatory Health and Safety trainings related to their specific roles. Also, the Michael Baker Health and Safety Department offers a variety of in-class safety trainings to meet our evolving safety needs.
In the field, our project managers proactively assess the hazards of their projects and ensure that their team members have the proper health and safety trainings completed, giving them the knowledge and skills to work safely in the face of hazards. Additionally, all Health and Safety Plans contain thorough and distinct guidelines for all team members, along with detailed directions on how to handle emergency situations.
Our Stop, Look, Assess, Manage (S.L.A.M.) Safety Award is an annual program recognizing a project team, service group or office that improved a safety process, contributed to our safety culture and achieved outstanding safety performance over a significant period of time.
Michael Baker International’s Dallas office provides Construction Engineering and Inspection (CEI) services for the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) on the $105 million reconstruction of Interstate 35E at FM 1171 in Lewisville, Texas – about 20 minutes north of downtown Dallas. The project, which began in April 2023, sits along one of the busiest stretches of urban highway in North Texas, carrying more than 170,000 vehicles per day across at least four lanes in each direction.
Michael Baker’s scope on this project includes construction inspection, materials testing, construction submittal reviews, construction engineering, RFI and change-order coordination, document control and review of contractor claims – often serving as the negotiation point between TxDOT and the contractor. The team is also responsible for inspection of concrete pours, bridge abutments, bridge decks and steel girders (including 180-foot girder placements).
The team has logged over 24,000 staff hours with zero recordable safety incidents.
Under a three-year on-call contract supporting the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) Michael Baker’s Water Quality team led the Caltrans Statewide Trash Discharge Study, a first-of-its-kind effort to measure how much trash is entering the state’s storm drain system from the Caltrans right-of-way. The work directly supports Caltrans’ compliance with California’s stringent trash discharge regulations, which prohibit trash from reaching creeks, rivers, lakes and ocean through the highway drainage network.
The study spans 84 monitoring locations across nine of Caltrans’ twelve districts statewide. The team installed custom-fabricated trash capture devices in storm drain inlets and returns monthly during the wet season – and once more in the dry season – to measure trash volumes. No project of this scale or scope has been attempted before in a highway environment.
Kicked off in July 2023, the study produced:
