Uponor North America has once more been honored with two Governor’s Security Awards by the Minnesota Security Council. The corporate’s Apple Valley campus received its fifth Governor’s Security Award, acknowledged on the Bronze stage this yr, and the Uponor Lakeville Distribution Middle received its fourth award, reaching the very best stage of Diamond.

The annual Governor’s Security Awards, which date again to 1934, acknowledges Minnesota employers for security and well being excellence in defending workers from accidents, sicknesses, and incidents. Organizations with an incident fee beneath these of the State and Nationwide charges of their business are awarded for his or her efforts.

“Security is the #1 precedence throughout the Built-in Provide Chain group,” says Jon Sillerud, vice chairman, Built-in Provide Chain. “We begin each shift-change assembly with the protection subject, and in 2023, we made enhancements to our security program and positioned emphasis on enhancing our security tradition. We additionally launched a Mission Zero program to boost consciousness of security with all workers. In 2023 we lowered our Misplaced-Time-Incident Frequency fee by 48 p.c, which was an enormous enchancment. For 2024, now we have complete plans to additional scale back our Misplaced-Time-Incident Frequency fee by 20 p.c as we transfer nearer to our aspirational purpose of zero office accidents.”

Sillerud went on to say that as a nine-time recipient of this award, Uponor attributes this recognition to not solely elevating workers’ consciousness and enhancing its security tradition, but in addition to a system of in depth self-audits, inspections, and threat assessments, in addition to a newly applied computer-based coaching.

To see an entire listing of award recipients, go to MinnesotaSafetyCouncil.org.