Sweetwater Utility Exploration Crews Focused on Safety

With more than half of its clients being in the petroleum industry, Sweetwater Utility Exploration has a big focus on safety, but they take a different approach to it.“We teach our people to want to be safe,” says Matt Bellmann, co-owner of the company based in Troutman, North Carolina. “It’s called behavioral-based safety training and I learned it from going to training seminars with BP. The idea behind it is you show them why being safe is going to help them.”Bellmann says he tries to explain to his crew why being safe matters — being able to go home to