TUCKER, Ga. — The Joint Business Security and Well being Council is at the moment accepting purposes for the council’s Frank Cruice Innovation in Security & Well being Award. This system is open to Nationwide Hen Council, Nationwide Turkey Federation and U.S. Poultry & Egg Affiliation members and is meant for poultry and egg trade members which have made a major development in operational excellence in a security and/or well being innovation.
Award purposes might be entered within the trade classes of Poultry Processing (NAICS 311615), Poultry & Egg Manufacturing (NAICS 1123), Animal Feed Manufacturing (NAICS 311119), Animal Assist Providers (NAICS 115210) and Rendering (NAICS 311613).
An award will likely be issued for each a process-based innovation and an equipment-based innovation. A panel of judges will decide the award winner and honorable point out recipients for every class.
The innovation utility standards embody the next:
· Have to be an progressive or novel resolution confirmed to scale back occupational accidents/diseases or enhance security consciousness on or off the job.
· Will need to have demonstrated outcomes over at the very least a six-month interval and should be capable to be leveraged throughout the trade.
· Choice will likely be given to improvements developed by way of security committees or different grassroots efforts.
· Implementing an “Off the Shelf” program bought or acquired from a 3rd occasion is not going to be thought of.
“The Joint Business Security and Well being Council is happy to supply an award program that acknowledges poultry and egg firms’ improvements in employee security developments,” mentioned Adrienne Allison, senior director technical security, regulatory & compliance for Tyson Meals, and chair of the Joint Business Security and Well being Council.
The Joint Business Security and Well being Council is made up of members from NCC, NTF and USPOULTRY. Collectively, the three organizations signify 95 p.c of the nation’s poultry merchandise, and their members generate greater than 1.3 million complete U.S. jobs.
Award program guidelines, rules and utility varieties can be found at www.uspoultry.org/applications/employee-safety/award-programs/.
The applying deadline is Sept. 22. The award winners and honorable point out recipients will likely be introduced throughout a ceremony on the Worldwide Manufacturing & Processing Expo (IPPE) on Jan. 30, 2024, in Atlanta, Ga.
