EnPro Industries Locations Receive Rare Corporate Platinum Safety Award

By Todd Overpeck, Marketing Specialist
03/19/18

Three EnPro Industries plant locations earned Platinum Safety Awards for their positive workplace safety cultures and excellent safety performance records the past three years.

EnPro Industries operates more than 75 plant locations among its six operating division companies worldwide. The three Platinum Safety Award winners are:

• Compressor Products International (CPI), Hungerford, United Kingdom
• Garlock Pipeline Technologies (GPT), Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.
• Technetics Group, Columbia, South Carolina, U.S.A. 

The Platinum Safety Award recognizes EnPro Industries plants that achieve annual Gold Safety Awards for three consecutive years. The Gold Safety Award standards include:

• 300 Safety Improvement Opportunities reported annually or rate of 3 per colleague per year
• 2 hours of safety training averaged per employee per month for 11 out of 12 months
• Safety Action Team meetings 11 out of 12 months with meeting minutes and attendance sheets, for every Safety Action Team at the site
• Environmental, Health and Safety Audit in Good Standing is Green
• Completed annual safety kick-off event and mid-year safety awareness event

At the CPI-Hungerford plant, the team of about 75 people has worked without a lost-time injury since 2013. While the plant mainly produces general compression products, there is a specialized carbon-molding production area that is hazardous. Employee-led teams focus on proactively keeping this area safe.

The GPT-Denver plant employs about 100 people, who worked more than 1 million hours since the plant’s last recordable injury in 2013. The GPT-Denver plant manufactures high performance seals, flanges, joints, sleeves and spacers for oil and gas pipelines. Common injury hazards include lacerations, strains, machine grabs, forklift accidents and other general manufacturing hazards.

“All employees at the Garlock Denver plant take pride in their positive family culture,” Garlock EHS Director Kelly Schulp said. “Keeping each other safe is their first priority. “

The last recordable injury at the Technetics-Columbia plant occurred in 2013, which is more than 1,175 working days injury-free. The Technetics-Columbia plant, which employs more than 100 people, last experienced a lost-time injury in 2006. The plant colleagues manufacture high performance seals for oil and gas refineries, nuclear power stations, industrial plants, and aerospace manufacturers. To celebrate their safety achievement, the plant’s safety culture action team organized a masquerade party after their award presentation.

The Garlock-Denver and Technetics-Columbia plants will host the EnPro Learning System SafetySummit this year, on September 18-19 and April 10-11, respectively. Companies can attend the SafetySummit to learn about how to implement the EnPro Safety System to keep their workers safe and eliminate lost-time injuries. The SafetySummit includes a plant tour and a panel discussion led by the Safety Action Teams from the plant. Click here for more information.