The Paper Shipping Sack Manufacturers’ Association (PSSMA) has announced the winners of its Safety Awards Program for 2017.  Categories included best annual safety experience and greatest annual safety improvement.  

The paper shipping sack manufacturing plants that achieved the best annual safety experience in 2017 in the man-hour categories shown are:

• Less than 150,000 manhours – Mondi Bags USA, LLC, Arcadia, La. Plant
   
• 150,000 to 225,000 manhours – El Dorado Packaging, Inc., Omaha, Neb. Plant
   
• 225,000 to 325,000 manhours – Mondi Bags USA, LLC., Pine Bluff, Ark. Plant
   
• Over 325,000 manhours – Mondi Bags, USA, LLC., Salt Lake City, Utah Plant

The paper shipping sack manufacturing plants that achieved the greatest annual safety improvement in 2017 in the man-hour categories shown are:

• Less than 150,000 manhours – El Dorado Packaging, Inc., Rosemount, Minn. Plant
   
• 150,000 to 225,000 manhours – SeaTac Packaging Manufacturing Corp., Puyallup, Wash. Plant
   
• 225,000 to 325,000 manhours – Mondi Bags USA, LLC., Pine Bluff, Ark. Plant
   
• Over 325,000 manhours – El Dorado Packaging, Inc., El Dorado, Ark. Plan

Best annual safety experience was determined on the basis of lowest total recordable incidence rate in each annual man hour category.  Greatest annual safety improvement was determined on the basis of greatest decrease in total incidence rate between 2016 and 2017. 

The following plants had zero incidence rates in 2017:

• El Dorado Packaging’s Omaha, Neb. Plant
   
• Mondi Bags USA, LLC’s Arcadia, La. Plant
   
• Mondi Bags USA, LLC’s Salt Lake City, Utah Plant 

These awards were announced to the industry and presented to winners at the PSSMA Production Managers’ Conference in Greenville, S.C.