Hazelwood Mayor Matthew Robinson, Fire Chief Jim Matthies and Police Chief Carl Wolf were among several community leaders who took part in a recent OSHA Star Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) flag-raising ceremony for Printpack, Inc.\u00a0 Matthies presented a \u201cCertificate of Appreciation\u201d to Printpack CEO Gay McLawhorn Love, on behalf of the Hazelwood Fire Department.<\/p>\n
Printpack, Inc., is the first organization in the City of Hazelwood to achieve OSHA\u2019s Star VPP status.\u00a0 It\u2019s also the third plant among the company\u2019s 25 world-wide manufacturing facilities to be designated as an OSHA Star VPP worksite.<\/p>\n
The VPP, adopted by OSHA, is designed to promote excellence in safety and health by recognizing facilities with outstanding occupational safety and health management systems.\u00a0 Based on a cooperative relationship between management, labor and government, the VPP promotes worker protection, requiring active employee involvement and management commitment.\u00a0 OSHA also conducts a thorough on-site evaluation to judge how well the site\u2019s protective system is working, including a review of site injury\/illness rates.\u00a0 Selection as a VPP participant is a distinguished honor.\u00a0 Continuous improvement is expected.<\/p>\n
The VPP Star Program is designed for exemplary worksites with comprehensive, successful safety and health management systems.\u00a0 Companies in the Star Program have achieved injury and illness rates at or below the national average of their respective industries.\u00a0 These sites are self-sufficient in their ability to control workplace hazards.\u00a0 Star participants are re-evaluated every three to five years, although incident rates are reviewed annually.<\/p>\n
Printpack officials believe this STAR level achievement could not have been accomplished without the vision of the company\u2019s safety director Ford Best, who passed away recently, and the dedication and hard work of all the safety committee members.<\/p>\n
The Hazelwood Fire Department has played a key role as a community partner with Printpack by training members of the plant emergency organization (PEO) on what to do in emergency situations. Fire Chief Jim Matthies said:\u00a0 \u201cOn behalf of the Hazelwood Fire Department, we congratulate Printpack on achieving the goals set forth by OSHA.\u00a0 It takes many groups of people to achieve this level of success. We appreciate being a part of this effort to help improve the company\u2019s safety and health management systems.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hazelwood Mayor Matthew Robinson, Fire Chief Jim Matthies and Police Chief Carl Wolf were among several community leaders who took part in a recent OSHA Star Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) flag-raising ceremony for Printpack, Inc.\u00a0 Matthies presented a \u201cCertificate of Appreciation\u201d to Printpack CEO Gay McLawhorn Love, on behalf of the Hazelwood Fire Department. Printpack, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"","ocean_second_sidebar":"","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"","ocean_custom_header_template":"","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"on","ocean_gallery_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hazelwood","entry"],"yoast_head":"\n