Richard W. Neill, CSP, CHST, CUSP, is Senior Vice President and Chief Safety, Health, Environmental, and Quality Officer at Centuri Group, Inc. He has three decades of experience across utility electric and gas, petrochemical, biopharma, industrial construction, and offshore wind.
High-hazard work doesn’t get safer by accident. It gets safer because crews pause, think together, and agree on how to control energy and uncertainty before any work begins. That’s the job of the pre-job brief.
