Plastipak’s Strategies for Preventing Serious Injuries and Fatalities
Accidents happen, but workplace incidents shouldn’t cost life or limb for employees. For Mark Jones, the key to reducing serious injuries and fatalities (SIFs) is building a capacity to fail safely.
Mark is the EHS Director at Plastipak, a packaging and recycling leader with more than 50 sites worldwide. Mark instituted a culture of transparent dialogue with associates to ensure that day-to-day operations don’t result in life-altering injuries or fatalities.
Mark shares his proven SIF prevention strategies and success metrics in the second of our two-part series on the topic.
Listen to learn:
- How equipment reliability influences safe operations
- Safety success metrics to track company-wide
- Tips to encourage near-miss reporting
- Mark’s solution to bring SIFs down to zero
The Employee Safety Podcast is hosted by Peter Steinfeld, SVP of Safety Solutions at AlertMedia.
You can find this interview and many more by following The Employee Safety Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or subscribing here.
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