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GreenWood Inc. Earns Highwire Platinum Safety Award

Written on 09/10/2024. Posted in Press Releases.

GreenWood, Inc. is proud to announce that it has been awarded the Highwire Platinum Safety Award for its continuous project work at Merck in Elkton, Virginia. This prestigious award is a reflection of GreenWood’s ongoing commitment to safety and outstanding results each year at this project. GreenWood’s “Always Aware” safety program is integrated with Merck’s safety standards to create an exceptionally safe work environment for all employees. The Platinum Safety Award is the highest honor awarded by Highwire.

The Highwire Safety Assessment reviews a company’s historic safety performance and current safety management systems. The program includes a thorough, objective and consistent evaluation of company performance so that clients and contractors can identify, monitor, and manage risk smarter. The results provide a strong indicator of how a contractor values safety and serves a reliable predictor of future performance. GreenWood received an average of 99 out of 100 for every trade category with zero discrepancies, and no identified weaknesses.

“This recognition by Highwire points to the foundation of our safety standards and the over-arching program that is designed to maintain a safe work environment while protecting employees,” says Mike Simmons, Safety Director for GreenWood, Inc. “Our teams work hard to be safe which is core to our safety culture and is our top priority in all the work we perform every day.”

Highwire is the Contractor Success Platform for asset owners, general contractors, and facilities managers. The world’s most admired organizations — including Skanska, Merck, and Bond Brothers — use Highwire to ensure their contracting partners deliver great work, on budget and on schedule, by collaborating with them to dynamically mitigate safety, financial, quality and sustainability risks throughout every project lifecycle.

GreenWood, Inc. Earns the McGriff Workplace Safety Excellence Award for 14th Consecutive Year

Written on 07/02/2024. Posted in Press Releases.

GreenWood recently earned the McGriff Workplace Safety Excellence Award for achieving excellence in safety performance throughout the company. Only companies who achieve outstanding overall safety performance based on workers’ compensation policy loss ratio, workers’ compensation experience modification (EMR), and BLS/DART/OSHA recordable incident rate are eligible for this recognition. This marks the 14th consecutive year that GreenWood has received this award – an accomplishment no other company has achieved.

“We are proud of GreenWood’s commitment to safety which is evident in their safe work practices,” says Warren Blanchard, McGriff Insurance Services. “This type of recognition is well deserved for a company that consistently achieves these impressive results year after year.”

Syensqo Project Reaches 1.5 Million Safe Hours

Written on 05/14/2024. Posted in Press Releases.

Our project at Syensqo in Augusta, Georgia recently celebrated 1.5 million safe work hours without a lost time event. What a great accomplishment for this team! GreenWood provides supplemental maintenance, turnarounds, operations support, and capital construction services for this specialty polymers plant. The prevention of incidents, injuries, and illnesses is the hallmark standard for GreenWood’s “Always Aware” safety program. Celebrating these accomplishments recognizes the hard work and dedicated focus our team puts on safety every day.

Ashlyn Vickers Joins GreenWood, Inc. as Safety Coordinator

Written on 04/03/2024. Posted in Press Releases.

Ashlyn Vickers recently joined GreenWood as Environmental Health & Safety Coordinator for the GreenWood home office. In this role, Ashlyn is responsible for administering various environmental and safety programs, and initiatives in the workplace to ensure the health and safety of GreenWood employees at project locations across the United States. These responsibilities include the administration of the workers’ compensation program to include effective medical case management, reporting, root cause investigations, record maintenance and follow-up. Additionally, Ashlyn ensures compliance with applicable local, state, and federal health and safety regulations for employees, staff, and customers.

In previous career positions, Ashlyn held responsibilities in safety, quality control, and manufacturing. She is a graduate of Montreat College where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences and holds several OSHA verified certifications. Welcome to GreenWood, Ashlyn!

GreenWood Attends National Safety Council Annual Congress & Expo

Written on 12/05/2023. Posted in Press Releases.

GreenWood attended the annual National Safety Council (NSC) congress and expo in New Orleans, LA where Affinity Insurance provided several risk control workshops for attendees. The event was structured with seminars, workshops and sessions centered on creating a safe work place through innovative methods, emerging trends, and safety technology solutions. As with all safety conferences and workshops, we apply newly gained knowledge to hone our “Always Aware” safety program that keeps us safe at all times. Delivering industrial plant maintenance services safely is our number one priority in all of our work.

Merck Celebrates 6 Million Safe Work Hours

Written on 12/06/2022. Posted in Press Releases.

A BIG Congratulations to our project team at Merck in Elkton, Virginia, as we recently celebrated a major safety milestone with over 6 million safe work hours without a lost time event. This is a culmination of over 3 decades of continuous work and the partnership with Merck is as strong as ever. Thanks to all our team members, our clients and suppliers. This doesn’t happen without everyone keeping safety as the top priority in everything we do every day.

GreenWood, Inc. Earns McGriff Workplace Safety Excellence Award

Written on 02/16/2021. Posted in Press Releases.

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GreenWood, Inc., was recently presented with the McGriff Workplace Safety Excellence Award for achieving excellence in safety performance throughout the company. Issued by McGriff Insurance Services, this prestigious award is reserved only for companies who achieve outstanding overall safety performance based on workers’ compensation policy loss ratio, workers’ compensation experience modification (EMR), and BLS/DART/OSHA recordable incident rate. GreenWood has now earned this award for a 10th consecutive year and is the first company to achieve this level of recognition.

“We take great pride in recognizing and celebrating GreenWood as the ‘best of the best’ in receiving this elite award and the first company to receive the 10 Year Workplace Safety Excellence Award,” says Warren Blanchard, McGriff Insurance Services. “McGriff is proud to acknowledge GreenWood’s accomplishment and commends them for their consistent focus on providing a safe and healthy environment for their employees.”

Mike Simmons, Corporate Director of Safety for GreenWood adds, “Our project teams start every day by reviewing safety standards and best practices that apply directly to the work being performed. This is engrained in our culture as we emphasize safety in every aspect of our projects with an ongoing commitment to zero incidents. Safety is our number one priority at all times.”

GE Team Addresses COVID-19

Written on 06/12/2020. Posted in Press Releases.

Our GE Power project site team in Greenville has been instrumental in keeping the facility safe and open during these unfamiliar times. In response to their hard work, GE expressed their appreciation to Team GreenWood and requested a group picture of all participating members supporting the COVID-19 initiatives and activities. The group is shown in front of the “GE Meatball” sign that will soon be installed above the main entrance to the building.

Those shown in the picture include GreenWood and GE employees who have sanitized break areas, cafeterias, vending machines with parts and supplies, turnstiles, and other areas as identified multiple times per day. This team has also assisted with setting up the new temperature scanning areas, modified break areas, and worked with others to support social distancing. They have sanitized the entire office facilities on two separate occasions along with many other jobs.

A big “thank you” and “job well done” for the great work this amazing team has performed! We appreciate their exceptional efforts during such unusual times.

Dow Holds Annual Safety Fair at WVO

Written on 10/03/2018. Posted in Press Releases.

GreenWood participated in the annual Dow safety fair at our West Virginia Operations (WVO) project site in South Charleston. The event is held each year to emphasize safety awareness at work and away from the job. Emily Kinnison, Mike Simmons, Jason Strickland and Cam Clendenin represented GreenWood at this year’s event.

GreenWood joined employees, vendors and numerous contractors at the event where safety materials and promotional products were distributed. The safety fair reinforces the importance of safety and why it is always a top priority. GreenWood’s “Always Aware” program is emphasized to underscore best safety practices in all project work with the goal of zero incidents.

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