Enthusiastic Safety Training Initiatives Professionally Underway with Marsha WoodsFri, May 25 2007 12:53 PMRICHWOOD, KY -- Duro Bag warmly welcomes new corporate management member Marsha Woods, incoming Manager for Environmental Health and Safety. With over 12 years of experience in Environmental Health and Safety fields, Marsha comes to Duro Bag from Remy International - Major Global Automotive Component Manufacturer. Marsha stated at a recent Safety Envisioning Session "I am excited to be working with the many talented individuals who make up Duro Bag Manufacturing and to bring our safety program to a world class level. I want to work hand in hand with the plants to increase safety awareness and performance." Retooling Duro Bag's safety program into a comprehensive and consistent system across multiple plants spanning the U.S. and Mexico is a high priority for Marsha Woods. Her expertise from her recent work with a manufacturing plant in Northeast Indiana is helping her to develop a customized best practice safety training initiative for Duro Bag entitled CORE 6. Duro Bag's CORE 6 initiatives will focus on nationally recognized OSHA regulatory issues such as:
Recognizing that Duro's most common safety issues are related to machine guarding and ergonomics, Ms. Woods' work emphases will be placed on helping Duro staff to merge "consistent expectations" of safety across the breadth of the Duro company and encouraging more intentional staff knowledge-sharing and hands-on development by staff of best practice techniques in the CORE 6 safety areas. A huge hurdle for the Duro Bag Manufacturing Co. has been persuading company staff to shift from producing typical paper training tips forms--which can be hard to share between facilities-- to building a robust intranet document library of training handouts that can be more easily accessed and provided to employees on a more instantaneous basis to reinforce best practice safety training on the spot. Document management is the key component to development of a new EHS - Environmental Health and Safety Training program and one impetus behind development of the new SharePoint intranet website which will be used to help with the consistency and cohesiveness in the Safety plan. As a component of the plan, development of new "instant alerts" for Injury Incident Notification and the Best Practices Notifications will be coordinated by Ms. Woods' office and integrated as new web-based content into the SharePoint intranet development process. Now in its 10th year, the "Safety Awards" program will still be managed by Marsha Woods' office. From T-shirts to DVD players, the awards program, as well as the ever popular "Safety Bingo" program, has been key components of effective safety team building within the Duro Bag family. Additional existing Safety program components such as the monthly "Safety Committees" and the "SPOT" program are in the works to also be more structurally formalized. Still in the throes of building a lengthy list of project tasks within the scope of her new assignment, Ms. Woods said that she "looks forward to helping to unite Duro staff under a comprehensive umbrella of safety." Contact: |
