2011 Safety & Health Award Winners
LP, Nashville, Tennessee and Canfor-LP OSB Limited Partnership, Fort St. John, British Columbia won Safest Company Awards in their respective categories while Roseburg Forest Products Co., Riddle, Oregon, earned the coveted Innovation in Safety Award in the 2011 Safety and Health Awards Program sponsored annually by APA for the structural wood panel and engineered wood products industry.
LP, a leading North American manufacturer of structural wood panels and engineered wood products, earned top honors among companies with four or more mills with a 2011 average Weighted Incident Rate (WIR) of 2.35. Canfor-LP, which produces oriented strand board, won its award in the category for companies with three or fewer mills. The company posted a perfect 0.00 WIR for 2011.
Roseburg’s Riddle engineered wood products mill took the innovation prize for the implementation of the “Glass Walls” program. Every shift in every department has a cell lead that is responsible for monitoring safety, quality, delivery and cost information daily and briefing the rest of the crew through a “Report Out”. Safety is the first item of discussion at every Report Out, and each team member is encouraged to voice all safety concerns. Read the full story.
2011 Award Winner
| INNOVATION IN SAFETY AWARD | ||||
| Roseburg Forest Products Co., Engineered Wood Products – Riddle, Oregon: Glass Walls Program | ||||
| SAFEST COMPANY AWARDS | ||||
| Avg. WIR | Avg. TIR | |||
| LP (Companies with four or more mills) |
2.34 | 0.56 | ||
| Canfor-LP OSB Limited Partnership (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 -- Jasper, TX |
368,318 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 2nd | LP -- Panguipulli, Chile | 342,901 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 3rd | LP -- Hanceville, Alabama | 318,584 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Division II (Over 400,000 Hours) | Hours | WIR | TIR | |
| 1st | LP -- Hayward, Wisconsin | 418,624 | 0.96 | 0.96 |
| 2nd | LP -- Golden, British Columbia | 403,043 | 0.99 | 0.99 |
| 3rd | RoyOMartin -- Chopin, Louisiana | 1,628,434 | 2.82 | 1.23 |
| THREE-YEAR SAFETY AWARD (2009-2011) | ||||
| Division I (Under 400,000 Hours) | Avg. Hours | Avg. WIR | Avg. TIR | |
| LP -- Panguipulli, Chile | 338,163 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| Division II (Over 400,000 Hours) | Avg. Hours | Avg. WIR | Avg. TIR | |
| RoyOMartin -- Chopin, Louisiana | 1,546,981 | 8.16 | 1.57 | |
| SAFETY IMPROVEMENT AWARD | ||||
| Division I (Under 400,000 Hours) | 2009 WIR | 2010 WIR | 2011 WIR | |
| LP -- Jasper, TX 100% Improvement |
1.88 | 0.55 | 0.00 | |
| 2009 TIR | 2010 TIR | 2011 TIR | ||
| 1.88 | 0.55 | 0.00 | ||
| Division II (Over 400,000 Hours) | 2009 WIR | 2010 WIR | 2011 WIR | |
| RoyOMartin -- Chopin, Louisiana 78.09% Improvement |
12.89 | 8.75 | 2.82 | |
| 2009 TIR | 2010 TIR | 2011 TIR | ||
| 2.06 | 1.42 | 1.23 | ||
| INCIDENT FREE HONOR SOCIETY | ||||
| Hours | WIR | TIR | ||
| LP -- Jasper, Texas | 368,318 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| LP -- Panguipulli, Chile | 342,901 |
0.0 | 0.0 | |
| LP -- Hanceville, Alabama | 318,584 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| Norbord -- Nacogdoches, Texas | 309,631 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| LP -- Carthage, Texas | 288,089 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| Canfor-LP OSB Limited Partnership -- Fort St. John, British Columbia |
272,506 |
0.0 | 0.0 | |
| LP -- Ponta Grossa, PR Brasil | 268,612 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| LP -- Two Harbors, Minnesota | 213,321 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| Louisiana-Pacific Canada Ltd. -- Swan Valley OSB, Minitonas, Manitoba |
207,038 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| LP -- Wilmington, North Carolina | 168,970 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| Louisiana-Pacific Canada Ltd. -- Dawson Creek, British Columbia |
144,252 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| Abitibi – LP Engineered Wood -- Larouche, Quebec |
116,000 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| Anthony EACOM Inc. -- Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario |
100,728 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| Abitibi – LP Engineered Wood -- Saint Prime, Quebec |
86,000 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| Anthony Forest Products Co. -- Washington, Georgia |
77,527 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| Calvert Company, Inc. -- Vancouver, Washington |
46,498 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
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