Articles Tagged with ''worker safety''

According to the Department of Labor (DOL), workers in the meat and poultry slaughtering and processing industries are experiencing fewer injuries and illnesses.

This year the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) chose poultry processing for a special emphasis program and is conducting comprehensive safety and health inspections at poultry plants.

In this video interview, Tim Cox, Vice President of Liberty Cold, discussed the benefits of starting with a “clean slate” at the Bolingbrook, Ill. facility and what innovations needed to be included. Plus, Cox reveals what his favorite thing is about working in the industry.

These milestones include attaining three million hours without a lost-time injury and reducing injury frequencies as a result of slip-and-fall incidents by 88 percent in just one year.

Butterball’s senior director of safety and risk management Brian Rodgers talks about the learning curve of adjusting worker safety to the different equipment you encounter with pork processing versus turkey processing and how that was advantageous in the long run.