APA honors producers for safety strides

A PA-TuE ErucrxEr,neo Wood AAssociation recently announced the winners of its 20 l1 Safety and Health Awards, a program that encourages and recognizes safety and operational excellence in the North American structural panel and engineered wood industry.

Nashville, Tn.-based LP and Canfor-LP OSB Limited Partnership, Fort St. John, B.C., won Safest Company Awards in their respective categories while Roseburg Forest Products Co., Riddle, Or., eamed the coveted Innovation in Safety Award.

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 20ll average weighted Incidenr 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 201 1.

One key to the success for LP and the Canfor-LP OSB plant is instilling safety and health as a core company value, rather than just a "priority." "If you treat safety as a core value, it's what's guiding your thoughts, actions and behavior," said Keith Harned, LP's corporate health and safety director. "We call it the LP Journey to Zero. We believe that nobody has to get hurt; the overriding theme is that no one should get hurt while working at LP. That's something we live and breathe every day."

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 leader who 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. Daily safety topics are also discussed. Along with the addition of mini safety audits, the Glass Wall program has significantly increased safety awareness and communication at the Riddle mill.

Begun in 1982, the APA awards program honors the managements and multiple award winners. employees of companies and mills with the lowest severity-weighted incidence rates based on guidelines established by OSHA. It employs a Weighted Incident Rate that is calculated using both the number and severity of recordable incidents. Since 2008 was the first year that WIR was used, awards and reports for 2009 through 2011 continue to also show Total Incident Rate (TIR), the measure used in previous years.

In addition to the Safest Company and Innovation awards, other competition categories include Safety Improvement, Annual Safety and Health Honor Roll, Three-Year Safety Average, and Incident Free Honor Society. Sixteen mills achieved a zero incident rate for the year and thus were named to the Incident Free Honor Society. The annual honor roll, three-year average and safety improvement categories are divided into two divisions based on hours worked annually-more than or fewer than 400900 hours.

Sixty-seven APA member structural wood panel and engineered wood product facilities in the U.S., Canada and abroad participated in the 201 I program. A total of 26 mills representing nine APA member companiesAbitibi-LP Engineered Wood, Anthony Forest Products, Anthony E.q.cou, Calvert Co., Canfor-LP OSB, LP, Norbord, Roseburg Forest Products, and RoyOMartin-earned awards in various categories of the 2011 program. Some of the mills were

While the program awards are limited to APA members, data is collected from both member and non-member mills in order to provide a broadbased industry performance benchmark. A total of 89 mills reported data for 201l. The 201I industry Total Incident and Weighted Incident Rates were 2.31 and 10.37, respectively, down slightly from 2.44 and 10.94, respectively, in 2010.

The winning facilities and companies will be recognized and their safety accomplishments celebrated during the Chairman's Dinner at APA's annual meeting in November in Amelia Island, Fl.

The 2011 safety awards program was the fourth year under a revitalized safety program effort spearheaded by an APA Safety and Health Advisory Committee comprised of several APA member company safety professionals. Under the committee's guidance, three main goals were established: make the APA program the premier safety awards program in the industry, encourage the sharing of best practices as a means to improve the industry's safety culture and programs, and most importantly, improve the industry's overall safety performance.

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