Environmental, Health, and SafetyEHS Awards/Achievements |
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Our Warsaw, Indiana site received the "Indiana State Quality Improvement Award" for our EHS Management System. The Austin, Texas facility received an award for Excellence in Pretreatment from the City of Austin Water Utility for 2005. The Statesville, North Carolina site was runner up in 2004 for the county Keep America Beautiful Organization and received National Safety Council awards for Occupational Safety Excellence and their Lift Truck Operation Program in 2006. The Ponce, P.R. site received a "Distinguished Safety Performance Award" for 2004. One Warsaw site achieved 3,000,000 safe hours (approx. 1 year) without a lost-time accident in January of 2005, and our Statesville, North Carolina site achieved 1,000,000 safe hours (approx. 2-1/2 years) in March of 2005. This compliments a number of other past million safe hour milestones and other EHS related awards.
These actions represent a strong commitment by Zimmer to manage resources and reduce the environmental footprint of our operations, while maintaining the highest standards for health and safety. If you would like more specific details about our EHS Management System or the examples provided, please contact Zimmer.
