Safety-first approach by NATE, FCC and OSHA program participants ensures quality and reliability for industry clients

NATE has proudly accepted 171 participating companies in this year’s STAR Initiative program and 129 participating companies in this year’s NATE-OSHA-FCC Partnership.

The STAR Initiative will enter its 15th program year in 2024-2025. Since its inception, the program’s site safety audits and program documentation requirements have served to allow participants to proactively identify and correct hundreds of job site hazards and deficiencies. These results have allowed NATE to extrapolate valuable benchmarks and tangible data from the program while demonstrating compelling evidence that STAR Initiative member companies are leading the charge to make the industry safer.The STAR Initiative program represents the gold standard in the industry and has achieved an elevated level of distinction in the marketplace. Simply put, program participants place their respective firms in a strong business position with prominent industry customers and vendors.

This year’s program will include additional site safety audit documentation categories and streamlined questions to reflect the diversity of work currently taking place in the industry and allow participants to capture more job-specific and relevant data efficiently.

Additionally, program participants can once again submit audits or site observations from the field utilizing the NATE Mobile App. This all-inclusive NATE Mobile App allows the Association’s members to access safety materials, member benefits, and event information and submit STAR audits, just to name a few. The NATE Mobile App significantly enhances the participant experience and provides a convenient means of submitting Site Safety Audit documentation in real-time directly from the field via smartphone, tablet, or another mobile device. The NATE Mobile App is available as a free download in both iOS (Apple) and Android platforms.

As an added benefit, STAR Initiative participants also receive discounts on designated training courses offered on the NATE EXCHANGE, a dynamic website platform connecting companies to the most up-to-date training courses offered in the tower industry.

The NATE-OSHA-FCC National Strategic Partnership program is entering its fourth year of site safety data collection and analysis. The NATE-OSHA-FCC Partnership provides participants the opportunity to work cooperatively with OSHA, FCC, and other contractors, to identify the most serious workplace hazards, to develop workplace-appropriate safety and health management systems, to share resources, and to find effective ways to reduce work injuries, illness, and deaths.

The goals for this partnership are to eliminate fatalities and reduce serious injuries and illnesses; establish root causes of fatalities, injuries, and illness; develop and implement best practices to eliminate the number of fatalities, injuries, and illness; develop and deliver training; communicate safety and health best practices within the industry; and establish an effective evaluation strategy to ensure the goals of the Partnership are met.

“On behalf of NATE, we extend our congratulations to this distinguished group of companies for going the extra mile in proactively advancing worker safety and quality at communications infrastructure sites around the country,” said NATE Programs Manager Sandy Jurgens. “As a participant in the NATE-OSHA-FCC Strategic Partnership, as well as participating in the STAR Initiative program, participants are engaging in building the cooperative relationship with groups that have a vision of providing a safe and healthful work environment for the industry’s most precious resource, the men and women doing the deployment work in the field,” Jurgens added.

The 2024-2025 NATE STAR Initiative and the NATE-OSHA-FCC Partnership (in bold print) participating companies include:

·         Above Wireless LLC

·         ADB Companies, LLC

·         Advanced Tower Services, Inc.

·         Advanced Wireless Solutions, Inc.

·         Amatel, Inc.

·         American Tower Corporation

·         ANCO Wireless

·         ANS Advanced Network Services LLC

·         Ansco & Associates, LLC

·         Apex Site Solutions

·         Ascension Telecom Solutions

·         Atlantic Construction Companies

·         Atlantic Tower Services, Inc. (ATS)

·         Banner Enterprise LLC

·         Bayed Communications LLC

·         B-C Walker, Inc.

·         Betacom, Inc.

·         Black & Veatch

·         Blackhawk Tower Communications, Inc.

·         BlackTower Group Inc

·         Bluewave Communications, Inc.

·         Branch Communications, LLC

·         Bright Lighting, Inc

·         Broadcast Construction Solutions

·         CellSite Solutions, LLC

·         Centerline Communications LLC

·         Circet USA

·         Clifton’s Tower Service, Inc.

·         Code USA LP

·         Crockets Materials and Services Inc.

·         CSB Communications, LLC

·         Dan Combs Consulting Inc.

·         DAWCOM

·         Delta Oaks Group, PLLC

·         Design 1

·         Design Telecommunications Inc.

·         Diverse Construction, Inc.

·         Diversified Communications Services

·         E.M. Enterprises General Contractors, Inc.

·         Earthcom, Inc.

·         East Coast Communications

·         Elevated Services, LLC

·         Elexco, Inc.

·         Elite ICT

·         Elite Tower Solutions, INC.

·         Emergency Radio Service, Inc.

·         Engineering Wireless Services, LLC (EWS)

·         ERI Installations, Inc.

·         Excalibur Builders and Maintenance, Inc.

·         Excel Construction, Inc.

·         FastTrac Telecom Services LLC

·         FDH Infrastructure Services, LLC

·         FordCom Wireless

·         Fritts Communications LLC.

·         Fullwave Tower and Broadcast LLC

·         Global One Communications Co. (GOCC, Inc.)

·         Global Tank and Tower, LLC

·         Grapevine Solutions, Inc.

·         Gray’s Tower Service LLC

·         Green Mountain Communications, Inc.

·         Gulf Services

·         Hayden Tower Service, Inc.

·         Heartland Tower Solutions, LLC

·         Heights Tower Service, Inc.

·         Hightower Communications, Inc.

·         Illini Drilled Foundations, Inc.

·         Independent Network Services, LLC

·         Industrial Communications West, LLC.

·         Industrial Communications, LLC

·         InfraServices Group Wireless LLC

·         Innovated Tower Solutions

·         InSite Telecom, LLC

·         JDH Contracting, Inc.

·         JDR Technologies, LLC

·         KCI Communications Infrastructure

·         Kilowatt, Inc.

·         KMM Telecommunications

·         Long Wave Inc.

·         MasTec Network Solutions

·         McPhee Electric

·         MDTS

·         Meridian Blue Construction, LLC

·         Microwave Transmission Systems, Inc.

·         Mid South Communications

·         Midland Communications Inc.

·         Midland Tower Construction, Inc.

·         Midwest Tower Erection, Inc.

·         MILLENNIA CONTRACTING, INC.

·         MILLERCO

·         Multi Telecom Corp. / DBA: A&A Wireless

·         Murphy Tower Service, LLC

·         MUTI – Sabre Industries Telecom Services

·         MZI Group

·         NDC Communications, LLC

·         NEC Group

·         Neticom, LLC

·         NeuComm Solutions, LLC

·         Newkirk Electric Associates Inc

·         NextEdge

·         Nokia

·         North Sky Communications, Inc.

·         Northeast Towers, Inc.

·         Northern Pride Communications, Inc.

·         Northstar Communications, Inc.

·         Nsight Tower

·         Omega Development Company

·         One Way Wireless Construction, Inc.

·         Ontivity

·         Patriot Towers Inc.

·         PCI GlobalCom

·         PCRG, LLC

·         PDQ Tower Services, Inc.

·         Peak Signals, LLC

·         PeakNet

·         Pillar Innovations LLC

·         Pinkham Cyr, Inc.

·         Pioneer Telephone Cooperative, Inc.

·         Premise, Inc.

·         Primoris Electric, Inc

·         Pyramid Network Services

·         Ramapo Communication Corp.

·         Randal’s Tower Tech Inc.

·         Resound Networks

·         RIO Steel & Tower, Ltd.

·         SAC Wireless LLC

·         SAI Group

·         Sargent Electric Company

·         Schumaker Construction, LLC

·         SiteMaster, Inc.

·         SkyTower, LLC

·         Speelman Electric, Inc.

·         SPX Aids To Navigation (AtoN)

·         SQUAN

·         STERLING Telecommunications & Construction, Inc.

·         STG Communication Services

·         Stout & Company, LLC

·         Structural Tower Services, Inc.

·         STS Communications, Inc.

·         T Steele Construction Inc.

·         Teleworld Solutions

·         Teltronic Towers, Inc.

·         Texoma Contracting, Inc.

·         Thayer Wireless LLC

·         Tiller Engineering Inc.

·         Tillman Infrastructure

·         Tillman Networks LLC

·         Timberline Communications, Inc.

·         Tower Communications Expert, LLC

·         Tower Engineering Professionals, Inc.

·         Tower Inspection, Inc.

·         Tower Systems, Inc.

·         TowerMRL, LLC.

·         Tri County Tower, LLC.

·         Triforce Communications, LLC

·         TriStruX LLC

·         True North Management Services, LLC

·         Tryzub Tower Services, LLC

·         United Telecom Systems LLC

·         US Tower Services, Inc.

·         Vertical Technology Solutions, Inc

·         VERTICOM (Network Connex)

·         Viking Maintenance

·         Vinco, Inc.

·         Wicomm Construction

·         Windy City Tower Techs LLC

·         Wireless Construction, Inc.

·         Wireless Horizon

·         Wireless Solution Source Inc.

·         X3 Management Services, Inc.

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