SHE Improvements
The 2003 Facility Safety Award Recipients for Plant of the Year
The 2003 Facility Safety Award recipients for Plant of the Year and Most Improved have been selected.
Please join me in congratulating the management teams at Electrochemicals-Minnesota and Rockwood Additives-Widnes for their receipt of the Plant of the Year Award. Both facilities are recognized for the their exceptional commitment to safety and environmental protection. These facilities receive a $20K award to be spent on a safety and/or employee improvement project.
Noteworthy of the Electrochemicals site is their ongoing achievement of exceeding 8 years without a lost time accident (>1.1 million hours). During 2003 the site was also subject to two unannounced regulatory inspections, one from OSHA and one from the EPA. Neither of these inspections revealed any violations, a rarity in the US regulatory environment.
The Widnes site was also named Plant of the Year because of its tremendous level of activity this past year. The site accomplished numerous cost effective improvements to improve plant conditions, hosted a regional Responsible Care Community event and conducted a site Open House for employee families and nearby residents, to name just a few. In addition the site has embraced a behavior based safety effort, called IBIS, that has helped the safety effort considerably.
The Most Improved Facility Award went to Rockwood Pigments-Beltsville. This facility had no injuries during 2003. At Beltsville, the High Rollers group is the union-management team that leads safety improvement and commitment at the facility. The High Rollers has produced a number of creative approaches to employee involvement including the children's Safety Poster published during 2003. Children of plant employees submitted safety posters which were compiled into a calendar that was widely published in Pigments and at the US SHE Conference. Beltsville receives a $10K award to be spent on a safety and/or employee improvement project.
Again I congratulate these facilities. I also wanted to take this moment to invite each and every facility to commit themselves this year to planning and implementing creative efforts to further improve safety performance in order to reach our goal of zero injuries in 2004. The Rockwood Specialties Executive team want each and every facility to strive for (and apply for) Plant of the Year in 2004.
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