Clow Valve program honored with Occupational Safety and Health Administration VPP award.Clow Valve Co., Oskaloosa, Iowa Oskaloosa is a city in and the county seat of Mahaska County, Iowa, United States.GR6 The population was 10,938 at the 2000 census. Oskaloosa is the current home of William Penn University and the former home of Oskaloosa College. , recently became the first metalcasting facility in Iowa and the second iron/brass facility in the U.S. to receive OSHA's Voluntary Protection Program (VPP VPP Voluntary Protection Program (OSHA) VPP Velocity Prediction Program (to predict sail boat performance) VPP Virtual Presence Protocol VPP Volts Peak to Peak VPP Virtual Presence Post ) MERT MERT Medical Emergency Response Team MERT Multi-Environment Real Time MERT Ministry of External Relations and Trade MERT Mobile Emergency Response Team MERT Maintenance Engineering Review Team MERT Milwaukee Electric Railway and Transport Company award. The award, available to companies in any industry, recognizes work places that successfully incorporate comprehensive safety and health programs into their total management systems, according to an Occupational Safety and Health Administration Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), U.S. agency established (1970) in the Dept. of Labor (see Labor, United States Department of) to develop and enforce regulations for the safety and health of workers in businesses that are engaged in interstate press release. Winning companies must maintain injury rates below their industry's national average. Clow began its award-winning program one year ago. "This was a process that took a lot of effort of all Clow's employees," said John Grahek, assistant facility manager. "It is a totally employee driven program, which is way above compliance." [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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