Worker safety is a key element in an effective meat and poultry processing operation

Processors who focus on worker safety by investing in innovation have seen improvement in key workforce metrics as their employees feel as though their well-being is respected by management and important to company success.

The workforce is getting older. People are retiring later in life than ever before.

Bureau of Labor Statistics’ annual Occupational Injuries and Illnesses report estimates that 3 million workers were injured on the job in 2012.

Editor-in-chief Andy Hanacek gets an exclusive tour of JBS' Grand Island, Neb., plant, focused on its initiatives in wastewater treatment as well as employee and community relations.