Blue Diamond Growers’
Salida Plant
Recognized for Safety Excellence
Blue Diamond Growers’
Salida manufacturing plant
received the
Million Work Hours Award
from the
National Safety Council for achieving two million
safe working hours. The plant was also awarded
a
Blue Diamond
Safety Excellence Award.
The National Safety Council award recognizes
organizations that have completed a period of at
least one million consecutive work hours without an
occupational injury or illness resulting in days away
from work. Counting toward the milestone began
June 2015 and was achieved September 2017.
“These accomplishments demonstrate the dedication
of hundreds of Salida team members,” said Brian
Barczak, Senior Vice President of Global Manufacturing
Operations for
Blue Diamond Growers
. “These awards
recognize the hard work and successful efforts by our
Blue Diamond
team members to support and drive a
Zero Harm culture.”
Contributing to
Blue Diamond’s
success is the
cooperative’s focus on increasing training efforts to
help members better identify and prevent risks in their
work areas.
“Ensuring the safety of our more than 1,500 employees
is the highest priority in all
Blue Diamond’s
operations,”
said Mark Jansen, President and CEO of
Blue Diamond
Growers
. “Less than half a percent of manufacturing
facilities this size have achieved this milestone.”
The plant, which employs 558 employees, is the largest
almond receiving station in the world with the ability to
receive 5.5 million pounds of both almond inshell and
meats per day. The warehouse was also engineered
to store up to 230 million pounds of brown almonds.
At the beginning of November, the awards were
presented to Salida team members by OSHA
Outreach representative Cari Elofson and
Blue Diamond
team members.
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