We are pleased to announce that after almost a year of waiting, McWane Ductile located in Phillipsburg, New Jersey (MDNJ) received their official notification that they have been approved for VPP Merit status. Their extensive and comprehensive on-site evaluation by a team of five OSHA personnel and one external Special Government Employee was held June 5-9, 2017.
They have been asked to perform additional industrial hygiene monitoring for non-routine and off-shift tasks (the only issue identified by the entire OSHA team). Once that is complete, they will be able to apply for the Star designation.
McWane Vice-President of Health & Safety Barb Wisniewski said, “It is very fitting that this announcement tops off an outstanding year for MDNJ’s health and safety success, i.e., winner of the 2017 McWane Top Quartile Club Award and the 2017 McWane EHS Excellence (Screaming Eagle) Award. You should be extremely proud—very well deserved!”
MDNJ joins six other McWane facilities that had been recognized as VPP sites. In fact, all three McWane Ductile locations are now VPP sites (McWane Ductile Ohio-VPP Star, McWane Ductile-Utah-VPP Star and MDNJ-VPP Merit).
Congratulations to everyone at MDNJ!
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2017 McWane EHS Awards!
Outstanding Environmental Performance-Fabrication: Amerex (Trussville, AL)
Outstanding Environmental Performance-Foundry: Kennedy Valve (Elmira, NY)
Outstanding Environmental Progress-Fabrication: Anaco and Clow Valve Corona (Corona, CA)
Outstanding Environmental Progress-Foundry: Bibby-Ste-Croix
Outstanding Health & Safety Performance: Mcwane Ductile New Jersey (Phillipsburg, NJ)
Quartile Club: (replaced the Most Improved RIR-Fabrication and Most Improved RIR-Foundry Awards): M & H Valve Company, Tyler Union, Clow Valve McWane Ductile New Jersey (Phillipsburg, NJ)
EHS Excellence (Screaming Eagle): Kennedy Valve (Elmira, NY)
Congratulations to this year’s winners!
McWane Senior VP of Environmental, Safety, and Human Resources Jeet Radia and Tyler Couplings Plant Manager Bill Hoffman
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2015 McWane EHS Awards:
Congratulations to this year’s winners!
Mike Keel and Ajith Raveendran
At the recent grand opening ceremony for the new McWane Gulf manufacturing facility in Abu Dhabi, Mike Keel was proud to recognize Ajith Raveendran for his performance in implementing all of the McWane EHS policies during the construction of the facility.
Ajith is the Senior Manager of EHS & Quality at McWane Gulf. He worked diligently to assure that they were accident-free during construction.
Congratulations, Ajith!
The American Foundry Society (AFS) held its 27th annual Environmental, Health and Safety Conference on August 11–13, 2015 in Park City, Utah. The conference was heavily attended by both safety and environmental representatives from multiple McWane facilities as well other foundries from across the United States.
McWane played a big role in the conference by providing several speakers (Mike Parker, Ward Pate, and Jeet Radia) and the conference co-chair (Holly Guerrero) from among the McWane safety and environmental ranks. Also, as part of the conference, our nearby foundry, McWane Ductile–Utah, opened its doors to over forty attendees for a plant tour.
Screaming Eagle
We are proud to announce the winners of the 2014 McWane EHS Awards which recognize McWane facilities with the best environmental, health and safety performance:
Congratulations to this year’s winners!
1st Place Winners – Clow Canada Pattern Modification Team
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2014 McWane Pollution Prevention Challenge (P2C) contest:
1st Place ($1,000 per team member): Clow Canada – Pattern Modification
2nd Place ($500 per team member): Amerex – Dry Paint Rack
3rd Place ($250 per team member): MTE Elkhart – Heat Recovery
3rd Place ($250 per team member): Pacific States – Finishing-Cement Line Water Reduction
A total of 35 pollution prevention project entries were received in July 2014 for this year’s Pollution Prevention Challenge. By the deadline of November 2014, 21 of these projects were submitted for judging by three independent judges. The judges evaluated all the written submittals and selected 12 finalists. The 12 finalists presented their projects via a web meeting on December 16, 2014, after which the judges picked the winning entries.
The judges were:
Beth Stewart – Cahaba River Society
Sarah Burton – Kestrel Management Services
Roald Hazelhoff – Southern Environmental Center
Our sincere thanks to the judges for donating their time and expertise for this process!!
All of us, including the three judges, were very impressed by the innovative ideas, presentations and the keen interest and passion shown by participating team members from different McWane facilities and departments (production, maintenance, engineering, environmental, etc.) in identifying and implementing effective pollution prevention ideas.
To continue to encourage implementation of more pollution prevention ideas at all McWane facilities, the “Why Didn’t I Think of That” Award for entries with innovative, simple and low cost solutions, producing relatively small but important environmental benefits were awarded to the following entries:
Winners of the “Why Didn’t I Think of That!” Prizes ($100 per team member)
We hope to see a continued high level of interest in Pollution Prevention at all McWane facilities going forward. Thank you for everyone’s interest in the 2014 P2C and your support of McWane’s EHS programs and get started with your 2015 projects/ideas.
Congratulations to the winners!!!
We are pleased to announce that Victor Carrasco has joined the Manchester Tank & Equipment Chile team as the new EHS Manager. Victor spent the last 9 years in safety and security for Gerdau, a multinational steel company. Prior to that, he worked as an EHS advisor in the construction and copper industries. He is experienced in certification processes for ISO 9001 and 14001; OHSAS 18001.
Victor is married with one son.
Welcome to the team, Victor!
R to L: EHS Steering Committee: Greg Simmons, Tony Orlowski, Larry Whitehead, Barbara Wisniewski, Bryan Hoggan, Kevin McCarthy, Dale Schmelzle, Jeet Radia, and Cathy Wright; James Proctor (not pictured)
McWane’s EHS Steering Committee is continuing its work to help guide the continuous improvement process for our industry leading EHS programs and systems. The group met on September 17, 2014, to continue deliberations on various initiatives and projects aimed at streamlining our programs and systems and looking for newer ways to improve our EHS performance while reducing burdens on our operating divisions.
An EHS Steering Committee consisting of leaders from operating divisions and corporate was formed in the Fall of 2012. The primary purpose was to develop a strategic plan for EHS at McWane with adequate input from all stakeholders to take EHS performance at McWane to a new high. Since then, the Steering Committee has been tirelessly working behind the scene to accomplish its mission. Some of its accomplishments include improvements to EHS training and audit processes based on input from a team members throughout the company using Integrated Project Teams.
Feel free to contact any of the EHS Steering Committee members or corporate EHS staff if you have any questions or comments.
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