Greenwood Earns Safety Award

Noria news wires
Tags: workplace safety

Greenwood Inc. was recently presented the Lighthouse Beam Safety Award by BB&T Insurance Services. The award recognizes excellence in safety performance and is designed to help companies emphasize safety and health throughout their organizations.

"We are honored to earn this award from BB&T, and it is a privilege to have received it every year since the initiation of the program," said Mike Simmons, Greenwood's corporate safety director. "It's a direct result of our employees placing safety first as the foundation for all our project work at Greenwood. By maintaining open communications with our teams to reinforce safety standards, we are able to consistently perform work in the safest manner possible for our customers."

The criteria for the award include workers’ compensation policy loss ratios, workers’ compensation experience modification (EMR) and recordable incident rates. BB&T Insurance Services recognizes only those companies with outstanding overall safety performance.

"Greenwood Inc. sets high standards for safety performance, and we’re proud to recognize them with this safety award," says Warren Blanchard of BB&T Insurance Services. "They are consistent in their commitment to safety, which is instilled in their workplace culture. It is our pleasure to support Greenwood with their accident prevention and claim management initiatives, and we gladly recognize them for these extraordinary results."

Headquartered in Greenville, S.C., Greenwood provides integrated maintenance, operations and construction solutions designed to extend the life of critical assets, influence operational efficiencies and deliver bottom-line improvements for plants and facilities throughout the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic states.

For more information, visit www.gwood.com.