Behlen awarded SAFE Work certification
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This article was published 26/06/2019 (2376 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Management and employees of Brandon’s Behlen Industries celebrated becoming SAFE Work Certified on Monday.
The certification is given out by SAFE Work Manitoba — a division of the Workers Compensation Board of Manitoba — as well as manufacturing industry safety initiative Made Safe to workplaces that have taken steps to maintain safety standards and passed an audit.
Emissaries from the company’s safety team, the union and company executives gave speeches during Monday’s event, talking about what the certification meant to them.
“Employees are the key to our whole business and having the best employees means having the best workplace,” Behlen vice-president Sean Lepper said. “It’s a feather in our cap and a credit to all our people.”
The program was created in 2017. Behlen is the 20th company to be certified by Made Safe, the second in Westman and the first in Brandon. The first to be certified in Westman was Minnedosa-based Morris Industries.
Lepper said that the certification process took about a year and a half.
“We’re very proud of the achievement and our employees for being able to achieve it,” Lepper said. “It’s the next step in our process of having a very safe and recognized safe workplace.”
Lepper said that in order to make Behlen a safer place to work, the company invested in safer technologies and equipment and safer work procedures and processes. According to Lepper, that includes employees feeling safe in reporting workplace issues.
“It really identifies the company as showing great leadership in safety and health,” SAFE Work Manitoba portfolio manager Laura Farmaner said about companies that have been certified. Farmaner said that Behlen has to meet certain maintenance requirements every year to stay certified.
While Made Safe handles certification for businesses in the manufacturing sector, businesses in other industries must meet the standards for their industry based safety programs and associations.
Behlen recently celebrated its 50th birthday, having been founded in Brandon in 1969.
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