Employee Safety
& Health
Safety - More Than a Priority, a Core Value
LP people work in manufacturing sites that have large and complex machinery, moving lines, and heavy products. Our sales force drives millions of miles. And our foresters spend most of their time outdoors, often in rough terrain.
No matter what the job, we believe that no one should get injured working at LP.
We maintain state-of-the-art safety and health processes and programs. But for us, safety is more than a priority. It’s a core value reflected in our culture and lived out daily.
Attend an LP meeting anywhere, and you’ll hear a safety message first on the agenda. Visit any plant, you’ll get a safety orientation and be issued a hard hat, ear plugs and safety glasses before you ever step inside.
Our results over the last ten years tell the story best: we’re proud that in 2007, based on Total Incident Rate, we were the safest company in our industry, and one of the safest in America. But we’re even prouder when our people go home safe every day, and take safety back home to their families and communities.
Occupational Hazards Magazine names LP One of the Safest Companies in America for 2007
Occupational Hazards magazine’s editors felt a little overwhelmed when the 12-page application they received included a list of 60 safety and environmental awards for LP mills and details of facilities that have gone a million hours without a recordable accident. In honoring LP, the magazine wrote: “Occupational Hazards has to get in line to recognize Louisiana-Pacific Corp. for safety.”
Editor Sandy Smith said her magazine was impressed by LP’s record. “Safety this good doesn’t happen by accident,” she wrote in the magazine’s November 2007 issue. “Safety is an ongoing process and commitment for the company.” What stood out in the magazine’s eyes were the awards, including eight mills qualified for the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Voluntary Protection Program, or VPP.
LP joined an elite group of companies on the Occupational Hazards list. Fewer than 75 companies have been named among America’s safest in the six years the trade magazine has produced the list.
When LP brought 16 people to the award ceremony in Chicago in October 2007, the company set a new record for participation as well, Ms. Smith said. That said a lot about the company’s enthusiasm. “Enthusiasm is catching,” she said. “If you have a passion for safety and your company’s safety process and you can communicate that passion, you’ve passed my first hurdle.”
LP Business Safety Managers Keith Dean, Steve Hatcher and Randy Morton join Mike Blosser, VP, EH&S and Corporate Safety Director Keith Harned to accept award.