The quarry team at Colorado Stone Quarries in Delta, CO, was the recent recipient of the prestigious Sentinels of Safety Award.

Learn how to implement a safety program in a stone fabrication shop.

For those of us who sell stone, we know it's a big deal to safely handle and store materials, because the products we work with every day are heavy and dangerous. That’s why the safety of workers and visitors should always be the top priority.

Even if a business has an established safety plan, rules and procedures must be followed for them to be effective.

Safety should always be at the forefront when moving slabs around a warehouse, fabrication shop or on the jobsite. Whether transporting the large, heavy pieces of stone or quartz manually or with a forklift or crane, following safety procedures is a must.

Some states are starting to unlock the doors for commerce and people will start getting back to work. Assembling the work teams back together attempting to achieve shared common objectives will not just happen by chance.