Reminder: We’re now accepting nominations for the 2009 Saxcies™ Awards. You have until May 8 to submit your entries.

Criteria: The Safety Program of the Year Saxcie™ is awarded to a company’s health and safety program that excels in leadership, innovation, communication and vision.

The 2007 Winner: Parkway Products, Inc.

Profile: Located in Atlanta, Parkway Products is a full service injection molding and machining facility with 12 injection presses, and a full machining center that includes dual spindals, CNC mills and lathes.

Parkway's commitment to safety becomes evident the moment you step through the door of its facility. Visitors and contractors aren't allowed on the production floor until they review and sign Level 1 and 2 EHS rules, all new contractors receive on-the-job safety training from the company on the first day of the job and new Parkway hires also get a complete safety orientation on day one.

Parkway treats safety as a team effort. Not only has upper management has "bought into" safety 100%, but management staff participates in all safety programs and audits and is actively involved in delivering the safety message to employees, contractors and visitors. All employees are assigned individual and team safety goals. Parkway employees are organized into seven two-person teams, each of which is involved in monthly auditing and monthly safety meeting presentations.

Parkway has an active HSE Committee made up of management and production staffers who serve at least one year. The Committee meets monthly to review near-misses, audit findings, injury data (on those rare occasions when injuries do occur), plan safety celebrations, etc.

Parkway offers an incentive program allowing workers to earn points towards gift certificates of their choice. Workers can earn points by engaging in activities such as participating in scheduled audits, presenting safety programs, housekeeping, submitting near-miss reports and doing volunteer audits. Two monthly recognition "traveling" trophies" - the Shining Star and Above and Beyond - are handed out to employees who work safely, as voted on by their peers.

Parkway's facility is certified with ISO 9001, TS16949 and ISO14001; it also holds a Tier 1 Automotive supplier Q1 rating.

Not surprisingly, all of these efforts have generated fantastic results. Parkway's OSHA recordable rate has been 0 for the past 2.5 years. Its last LTA experience was 12 and-a-half years ago. The facility has thus accrued 1,307,022 safe hours since then.

The Saxcies™ silver helmet for Safety Program of the Year shares space in Parkway's trophy case with other awards and recognitions, including:

• 2000 - 2006 Georgia Department of Labor Award of Excellence for Safety;
• 2004 Celebrated milestone of 10 yrs. and 1 million safe hours - Received congratulatory letters from Governor Sonny Perdue and Mayor Shirley Franklin; and
• 2005 Georgia Department of Labor - Commissioners Award.

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