2008 Safety & Health Award Winners
RoyOMartin, Alexandria, La., has won the Innovation in Safety Award while Anthony Forest Products Company, El Dorado, Ark., and LP, Nashville, Tenn., each earned Safest Company Awards in their respective categories in the latest and newly reorganized Safety and Health Awards Program sponsored annually by APA for the structural wood panel and engineered wood products industry.
A total of 19 mills representing five APA member companies—LP, Georgia-Pacific Wood Products LLC, Norbord, Anthony Forest Products Company, and Roseburg Forest Products Co.—also earned awards in various other categories of the 2008 program.
Begun in 1982, the awards program honors the managements and employees of companies and mills with the lowest severity-weighted incidence rates based on guidelines established by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Read the full story.
2008 Award Winners
| INNOVATION IN SAFETY AWARD | ||||
| RoyOMartin -- Alexandria, LA: Winning with Wellness Program | ||||
| SAFEST COMPANY AWARDS | ||||
| Avg. WIR | Avg. TIR | |||
| LP (Companies with four or more mills) |
4.69 | 0.86 | ||
| Anthony Forest Products Company (Companies with three or fewer mills) |
0.0 | 0.0 | ||
| ANNUAL SAFETY AND HEALTH HONOR ROLL | ||||
| Division I (Under 400,000 Hours) | Hours | WIR | TIR | |
| 1st | LP -- Carthage, Texas |
340,794 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 2nd | LP -- Panguipulli, Chile | 337,343 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 3rd | LP -- Sagola, Michigan |
312,821 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Division II (Over 400,000 Hours) | Hours | WIR | TIR | |
| 1st | Georgia-Pacific Wood Products LLC -- Emporia, Virginia |
831,718 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 2nd | Georgia-Pacific Wood Products LLC -- Cleveland, Texas |
784,717 | 0.25 | 0.25 |
| 3rd | Georgia-Pacific Wood Product LLC -- Warm Springs, Georgia |
523,391 | 0.38 | 0.38 |
| THREE-YEAR SAFETY AWARD (2006-2008) | ||||
| Division I (Under 400,000 Hours) | Avg. Hours | Avg. WIR | Avg. TIR | |
| LP -- Athens, Georgia |
290,033 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Division II (Over 400,000 Hours) | Avg. Hours | Avg. WIR | Avg. TIR | |
| Georgia-Pacific Wood Products LLC -- Madison, Georgia |
890,684 | 1.13 | 0.23 | |
| SAFETY IMPROVEMENT AWARD | ||||
| Division I (Under 400,000 Hours) | 2008 WIR | 2007 WIR | 2006 WIR | |
| Norbord --
La Sarre, Quebec 100% Improvement |
0.00 | 16.15 | 38.86 | |
| 2008 TIR | 2007 TIR | 2006 TIR | ||
| 0.00 | 4.21 | 5.18 | ||
| Division II (Over 400,000 Hours) | 2008 WIR | 2007 WIR | 2006 WIR | |
| Georgia-Pacific Wood Product LLC -- Warm Springs, Georgia 93.69% Improvement |
0.38 | 5.65 | 6.06 | |
| 2008 TIR | 2007 TIR | 2006 TIR | ||
| 0.38 | 0.57 | 1.65 | ||
| INCIDENT FREE HONOR SOCIETY | ||||
| Hours | WIR | TIR | ||
| Georgia-Pacific Wood Products LLC -- Emporia, Virginia |
831,718 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| LP -- Carthage, Texas | 340,794 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Louisiana-Pacific Chile S.A., -- Panguipulli, Chile |
337,343 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| LP -- Sagola, Michigan | 312,821 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| LP -- Roxboro, North Carolina | 302,181 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Louisiana-Pacific Chile S.A., -- Lautaro, Chile |
273,153 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Georgia-Pacific Wood Products LLC -- Duck Hill, Mississippi |
270,748 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| LP -- Wilmington, North Carolina | 268,330 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Norbord -- Guntown, Mississippi |
258,948 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| LP -- Tomahawk, Wisconsin | 256,226 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| LP -- Athens, Georgia | 229,177 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Norbord -- La Sarre, Quebec | 217,597 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Roseburg Forest Products Co. -- Riddle, Oregon |
214,636 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Anthony Forest Products Co. -- El Dorado, Arkansas |
156,918 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Georgia-Pacific Wood Products LLC -- Ocala, Florida |
155,718 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Anthony Forest Products Co. -- Washingto, Georgia |
110,953 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
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