Resolute-LP Engineered Wood and LP won Safest Company Awards in their respective categories while the coveted Innovation in Safety Award went to two winners: LP of Two Harbors, MN, for the Equipment-Based Innovation Award, and RoyOMartin of Oakdale, LA, for the Jeff Wagner Process-Based Innovation Award.
LP, a producer of engineered wood products in Canada, the U.S., and South America, earned top honors among companies with four or more mills, with a 2016 average Weighted Incident Rate (WIR) of 1.57. Resolute-LP Engineered Wood, which produces I-joists at mills in Larouche and Saint Prime, Québec, won its award in the category for companies with three or fewer mills. The company posted a perfect 0.00 WIR for 2016.
The Two Harbor LP mill’s original “Saw Handling Articulating Arm” equipment innovation and the Oakdale RoyOMartin mill’s "Safety Banners” took top honors out of 26 Innovation in Safety Award entries.
2016 Award Winners
|
LP—Two Harbors, MN: Equipment-Based Innovation Winner: Saw Handling Articulating Arm
RoyOMartin—Oakdale, LA: Jeff Wagner Process-Based Innovation Winner: Safety Banners
|
LP
(Companies with four or more mills) |
1.57 |
0.41 |
Resolute-LP Engineered Wood
(Companies with three or fewer mills) |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| 1st |
RoyOMartin—Chopin, LA |
|
4.75 |
0.70 |
| 2nd |
Boise Cascade Company—
Chester, SC |
|
5.98 |
1.56 |
| 1st |
LP—Lautaro, Chile |
|
0.00 |
0.00 |
| 2nd |
LP—Jasper, TX
|
|
0.00 |
0.00 |
| 1st |
LP—Houlton, ME |
|
0.00 |
0.00 |
| 2nd |
LP—Wilmington, NC
|
|
0.00 |
0.00 |
| RoyOMartin—Chopin, LA |
|
3.93 |
0.70 |
| LP—Panguipulli, Chile |
|
0.00 |
0.00 |
| Resolute-LP Engineered Wood—Saint Prime, QC |
|
0.00 |
0.00 |
Roseburg Forest Products Co.—
Riddle, OR
74% Improvement |
36.09 |
14.86 |
9.40 |
| 5.55 |
3.43 |
2.91 |
Norbord—Joanna
Kinards, SC
100% Improvement |
16.85 |
0.52 |
0.00 |
| 2.17 |
0.52 |
0.00 |
| No mill qualified for award. |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
|
Boise Cascade Company
Roxboro, NC
|
LVL |
0.0 |
0.0 |
|
EACOM
Sault Ste Marie, ON
|
IJ |
0.0 |
0.0 |
|
Louisiana-Pacific Canada Ltd.
Fort St. John, BC
|
OSB |
0.0 |
0.0 |
|
LP
Hanceville, AL
|
OSB |
0.0 |
0.0 |
|
LP
Houlton, ME
|
SCL |
0.0 |
0.0 |
|
LP
Jasper, TX
|
OSB |
0.0 |
0.0 |
|
LP
Lautaro, Chile
|
OSB |
0.0 |
0.0 |
|
LP
Newberry, MI
|
OSB |
0.0 |
0.0 |
|
LP
Panguipulli, Chile
|
OSB |
0.0 |
0.0 |
|
LP
Red Bluff, CA
|
IJ |
0.0 |
0.0 |
|
LP
Roxboro, NC
|
OSB |
0.0 |
0.0 |
|
LP
Sagola, MI
|
OSB |
0.0 |
0.0 |
|
LP
Tomahawk, WI
|
OSB |
0.0 |
0.0 |
|
LP
Two Harbors, MN
|
OSB |
0.0 |
0.0 |
|
LP
Wilmington, NC
|
LVL |
0.0 |
0.0 |
|
Norbord
Guntown, MS
|
OSB |
0.0 |
0.0 |
|
Norbord
Jefferson, TX
|
OSB |
0.0 |
0.0 |
|
Resolute–LP Engineered Wood
Larouche, QC
|
IJ |
0.0 |
0.0 |
|
Resolute–LP Engineered Wood
Saint Prime, QC
|
IJ |
0.0 |
0.0 |
|
RoyOMartin
Oakdale, LA
|
OSB |
0.0 |
0.0 |
|
Weyerhaeuser
Grayling, MI
|
OSB |
0.0 |
0.0 |
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