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The Governor's Safety Awards Luncheon on Friday, May 13, recognized Minnesota workplaces that have achieved exceptional performance in safety. Applicants are judged on several years of injury data as it compares with state and national statistics, and on their progress in implementing a comprehensive safety program. Winners are recognized at three levels: Meritorious Achievement, Outstanding Achievement and the highest level, Award of Honor. Award of Honor winners provided insights into the success of their safety programs, information that was shared as they received their awards.
E. J. Ajax & Sons, Inc.
The metal forming professionals at E.J. Ajax have logged over two decades without a single lost time incident. That's over two million hours working safe in a high hazard environment. The company was recently named the 2011 Minnesota manufacturer of the year for its willingness to share its safety culture and best practices with others. Ajax has hosted plant tours for over 100 different organizations from around the state.
APi Electric Company
Accountability starts from the top; APi Electric management and staff does stretching at 7:30am every morning in the office and APi management does daily, weekly and monthly safety audits to help achieve their zero recordables.
APi Group, Inc.
Api Group is honored to receive the award of honor and proud to be a part of the group of award winners being recognized. APi Group, Inc. has a strong safety and risk management program that is supported by a large group of dedicated safety professionals throughout the company, and it is backed by employees all the way up to top management.
ATK Plymouth
This is the seventh consecutive year that ATK has received the award of honor. They attribute their safety success in a high-risk industry to management and employee commitment to a strong preventative process where safety is a fundamental value for all employees. At ATK they say "safety is a core element of our culture. It's part of our DNA. It's in everything we do."
BAE Systems, U.S. Combat Systems
BAE Systems Minneapolis site has experienced multiple re-organization changes over the last year and has faced many cuts in resources but they continue to keep safety on the forefront. This year they are pushing towards best-in-class and continuing to make safety the way they do business and a precondition to their work. In these tough times as a defense contractor, they continue to expect total safety performance and continuous improvement.
Bluestem Brands
Bluestem Brands is "the new Fingerhut." That's a new name, but they have the same great commitment to safety and the same strong employee culture.
Oscar J. Boldt Construction
Boldt has just passed 3,000,000 work hours worked without a lost time injury - remarkable! Their continuous safety improvement program gets everyone involved and rewards employees for participating in the safety process by documenting near misses, identifying job site hazards, and taking appropriate corrective action.
Boston Scientific Cardiac Rhythm Management, Maple Grove
Boston scientific maple grove has sustained commitment throughout the division to ensure that safety risks have been identified and reduced or eliminated. This commitment to excellence is a key driver in achieving the lowest recordable and severity rates in the division's history.
Cherne Contracting Corporation
Cherne's goal is to attain world-class safety and to be the safest company in their industry. At Cherne, safety is a core value that is embedded in the way they work, the decisions they make, and the actions they take.
Flint Hills Resources Pine Bend Refinery
Flint Hills Resources Pine Bend Refinery in Rosemount is a leading provider of transportation fuels, producing gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and other products for Minnesota and the Upper Midwest. Pine Bend was recertified as a MNSTAR worksite in 2008, and continues to strive for improvement in both personal and process safety. Excellent safety and environmental performance is an expectation by its employees, its management, and its community.
General Dynamics – Advanced Information Systems BLC
BLC facility has won the award of honor seven years in a row
General Mills Basset Creek Facility and World Headquarters
General Mills World Headquarters and Bassett Creek's safety performance is led by a continuous improvement model, with the ultimate goal of being injury free. That requires total employee involvement and excellence in leadership at all levels. Many functions are focused by leading with safety as the core value.
General Mills, Inc. ITQ
General Mills ITQ takes great pride in their world-class safety culture. Their safety journey is based on leadership at all levels and doing the right thing for safety every time. Their challenge is to constantly look in the safety mirror to ensure they are always leading with their core value. At General Mills, safety is their most important ingredient.
General Mills, Inc., Purity Oats
A strong safety history reinforces their strong safety culture. Strong veteran leadership reinforces that safety is the #1 plant value. Purity Oats is very proud of their 10 years without a loss time incident.
Graphic Packaging International
Graphic Packaging, Crosby, MN, wants to say that it's their people that make the difference. In addition to manager involvement and support, five employee teams from throughout the facility make their safety program work. They want you to know they receive the Award of Honor with great pride.
Hennepin County Human Services and Public Health Department
With 2900 employees, the Hennepin County Human Services and Public Health Department is the largest department in Hennepin County government. It has earned the Governor's Safety Award six of the past seven years. The department safety and health team demonstrates daily Hennepin County's commitment to each of its employees. This organization wants its workers to go home at night safe and healthy and whole.
Hormel Foods Corporation Corporate Office
The Hormel Foods' Corporate Office employees have won the Governor's Safety Award of Honor for six consecutive years. Hormel's innovative safety process, known to employees as, "our way to safety," stresses continuous improvement of their safety culture through the implementation of the "our way" safety principles. Their ultimate goal is to set their industry's gold standard for employee safety.
IBM Rochester
As IBM enters its centennial year, IBM Rochester continues to advance the performance of the workforce, effectively manage risks related to health, and lead IBM's growth in the marketplace through continued focus on health and safety efforts. This includes the implementation and achievement of worldwide OHSAS certification for its well-being management system. The management system allows IBM Rochester to continue to promote optimal physical and mental well-being to ensure a fit, healthy, productive workforce, ensure regulatory compliance, and management of health and safety related risks in the workplace.
International Paper, White Bear Lake
Employees and a culture of caring are the key to the safety success at International Paper's manufacturing facility in White Bear Lake. The employees care for each other and get involved in numerous safety activities in support of an injury-free workplace. International Paper has been a MNSTAR safe facility for seven years.
Jennie-O-Turkey Store Corporate
Safety is a core value at Jennie-O Turkey Store. They continue to stay focused and committed to team member safety. It is their 5th consecutive year winning the Award of Honor.
Land O'Lakes Purina Feed, Detroit Lakes
Four keys to Land O'Lakes Purina Feed's safety success: employee involvement; an annual safety business plan with input and participation from the employee safety committee as well as the line supervisors; a near miss program where hazards are removed before they turn into an injury; and remembering to celebrate their successes.
Liberty Paper, Inc.
LPI has achieved 2.8 million hours – that's seven years! – without a lost time incident. LPI conducts day-to-day business with safety as a core value. They live and breathe their safety mission. Everyone takes pride in the mill's excellent safety culture and continuous safety improvement.
Louisiana Pacific Corporation, Two Harbors
Louisiana Pacific's Two Harbors Mill has been a proud participant in the VPP/MNSTAR program since 2004. In January of this year the mill reached the milestone of working two years without an OSHA recordable injury.
Low Voltage Contractors, Inc.
LVC strives to continuously improve and strengthen their safety program, and this year has earned the Award of Honor for the first time.
Medtronic Inc., Mounds View Campus
Medtronic is a global leader in medical devices, providing services and products to patients around the world. The Mounds View campus is the home of Medtronic Cardiac Rhythm and Disease Management as well as the Cardiovascular Group which houses approximately 4000 employees. They are proud today to be receiving their third Award of Honor.
Minnesota Department of Human Services, Central Office
The success of the ergonomics program at Human Services Central Office relies on early intervention for new employees through staff orientation and web-based information. Facility management staff assists the health and safety unit by identifying employees who may need an ergonomic assessment or adaptive equipment.
Parsons Electric
Parsons Electric has a proactive approach to injury prevention, and takes pride in providing quality workmanship while utilizing safe work methods.
Rock Tenn
Rock Tenn has a core belief that the foundation of its safety program is its employees. Their skill, training, and unending focus on safety is the solid foundation that the safety culture is built upon. Rock Tenn says its year after year results are based 100% on its exceptional workforce.
Syngenta Seeds Inc., Amboy
Syngenta is accepting this award on behalf of the hard work, thousands of hours, and continuous safety efforts put forth by the personnel of the Amboy, MN facility. This is the fifth governor's Award of Honor for the Amboy Syngenta seeds facility since 2004.
Syngenta Seeds, Inc., Danvers and Dassel
This is the first time these two locations have received the award of honor. They are proud to finally stand beside the other Syngenta sites that have earned this award.
Syngenta Seeds, Inc., Stanton
The Syngenta Seeds Research Center in Stanton, MN houses programs in corn research and development, sweet corn breeding, biotechnology, plant pathology, entomology, quality assurance and seed coating technology. Their 72 full time and up to 200 seasonal employees perform their various tasks in offices, labs, seed processing rooms, greenhouses and on their 412 acre farm. All employees are active participants in their health, safety and environment programs as shown by this fifth consecutive Award of Honor.
Thomson Reuters, Eagan Office and Data Center
With over 6000 workers, Thomson Reuters' Eagan Data Centers and office employees continue to promote ergonomics and risk reduction through increased awareness and inspections, safety teams, year-round shuttle buses, and individual ergonomic training & evaluations. Through a partnership with the Minnesota Safety Council, they also train over 700 employees a year in First Aid and CPR so they are better prepared for the unexpected that can occur at work, at home or on vacation.
The Toro Company, Corporate Office, Product Development & Evaluation
Toro is proud of the active participation of its safety committees. They serve as resources to nearly 1,000 employees at this location. Directors of operations discuss root cause analysis of injuries in monthly conference calls with the vice president of operations. Toro also has a "workstation review" program to address office employees' ergonomic conditions.
The Valspar Corporation
As Valspar Corporation marks its 205th anniversary, it is among the safest manufacturers in the world. Over the last 15 years, Valspar has reduced its injury rate by 77 percent. In 2010, they achieved a recordable injury rate of less than one, finishing the year at 0.97 recordable incidents for every 200,000 hours worked, a performance level attained by very few manufacturing companies.
Washington County
Washington County also received the Award of Honor in 2010, 2008 and in 2006. Active employee participation and feedback are key to the county's continued safety success. The county is proud of its wonderful team of employees working together to serve its citizens and community, safely.
Wright County
Wright County has the full support of its commissioners and administration for the safety program. They have a very proactive safety committee and great employees. Wright County is very happy to be receiving this award.
Xcel Energy Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant
Through the understanding of safety and human performance, Xcel Energy's Monticello nuclear plant strives to maintain flagship performance. Their total safety culture has zero tolerance for negative safety behaviors. Monticello is focused on preserving a status of industry leadership in safety.
Xcel Energy Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant
Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant is honored to receive this award. The organization strives to continually improve safety performance through a strong safety committee and an open exchange of information between industry peers.
Xcel Energy, Riverside Plant
Riverside is a 100 -year old power plant, but its culture has changed with the times. Everyone works to make things better and safer. Whether your organization is centuries old or days old, improving safety is about keeping your eyes open for the opportunities every day. At Xcel Riverside, safety comes first and production is second. They say what is important and then they do it. That is how they move their safety culture forward.
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