Safety & Health
We are committed to an incident-free workplace at Boise Inc. Every employee has a fundamental right to a safe place to work. A safe place to work is a workplace that we would be comfortable sending our children and grandchildren to every day.
Every facility has a safety committee made up
of production and management employees.
In addition to regular, on-site meetings and activities,
we organize safety roundtables, where representatives from across the company share best practices.
All locations measure their safety efforts and address them with specific action plans.
While we are proud of our locations that have achieved zero accidents and incidents, until the entire company reaches that goal, our safety performance is not good enough. And we believe every employee must fully participate as a leader to keep our work environment safe.
Cooperative relationships
Six locations are certified under the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP):
- Bensenville, IL – distribution center.
- Burley, ID – corrugated plant.
- International Falls, MN – paper mill.
- Jackson, AL – paper converting facility.
- Pico Rivera, CA – distribution center.
- Salem, OR – corrugated plant.
Familiar faces, dramatic messages
Safety posters featuring employees
and their families at our corrugated plant in Salt Lake City, Utah, generated plenty
of safety conversations there. After the posters were featured at our 2007
companywide safety conference, Salt Lake City offered them to all of our locations.
Investing in health and wellness
Healthcare costs affect our bottom line. The costs are as significant as those for trees or energy at Boise Inc. But they are much more important, because we need to invest in our employees' health and wellness – it is simply the right thing to do.
Employees use their private Healthy Choices web portal to set up a personal health profile, access information, and participate in interactive healthy living programs.
The tools are provided by Mayo Clinic, one of the most trusted names in healthcare.
