SPI: The Plastics Industry Trade Association launched its 2014 Safety Statistics and Awards (SSA) Program, inviting the plastics industry to contribute their information to help SPI better understand the state of safety in the plastics industry while being recognized for achieving a level of safety performance above the industry average.
“The SSA program is how SPI tracks and analyzes data on worker safety in the plastics industry. The more facilities and companies that participate, the more clearly we can recognize outstanding safety records and better educate policymakers and the public about the plastics industry’s sterling record of making employee safety a priority,” said SPI president and chief executive officer William Carteaux. “The SSA program helps SPI tell their story, and acknowledge the facilities that go the distance to protect the plastics industry’s most precious resource: its work force.”
Entries for the 2014 SSA program are already being accepted and will continue to be until March 6, 2015. Participating companies should submit this year’s entry form along with a copy of the specific facility’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) 300 and 300A forms that have been scrubbed of the personally-identifiable information of any employees. Entrants can submit separate forms for each individual site they wish to be considered for an award.
Awards will be given in three different categories:
•Gold Distinguished Safety Awards recognize worksites with no occupational injuries or illnesses, as defined by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, during the calendar year 2014.
•Silver Achievement Safety Awards are presented to worksites with no OSHA recordable occupational injuries or illnesses involving lost work days or restricted work activity during the calendar year 2014.
•Bronze Special Recognition Awards are presented to those worksites with safety performance for 2014 that is 20 percent better than the national Total Recordable Cases average for their North American Industry Classification System code.
The 2014 SSA program will also recognize facilities with the two lowest rates of incident based on size, in three different categories for the first time this year: 1 to 100 employees, 101 to 350 employees and over 350 employees.
Published in the February 2015 Edition of American Recycler News