ERIE — Local manufacturer Plastikos, Inc. was recently honored with the 2024 MAPP (Manufactures Association for Plastics Processors) Safety Best Practice Award as voted on by member companies from across the United States. In addition, Plastikos and two sister companies, Micro Mold and Plastikos Medical, were also selected as recipients of the Safety Gold Achievement Award, which recognizes exceptional workplace safety throughout the prior year.
Molding Manager and Jr. Partner, John Williams, II leads the Plastikos Safety Committee as well as the award submission process. “All of our safety projects consist of cross-functional teams working together between departments. They are the culmination of everyone’s hard work and commitment to safety. I am so proud of everyone’s hard work and dedication that makes Plastikos, Plastikos Medical, and Micro Mold the very safe and exceptionally clean workplaces that we are today.”
According to the MAPP website, The Safety Achievement Award is a way to recognize safety in the plastics industry at those facilities that achieved a level of safety performance well above the industry average. The annual Safety Awards are based on data that was reported on a company’s annual OSHA 300 Log of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses, with the Gold Safety Achievement Award reserved for facilities that maintained an injury-free workplace throughout the year.
The Annual Safety Best Practice Award is a way to recognize the industry’s best practices and safety-focused continuous improvement projects that organizations implemented to increase overall safety. President & General Manager, Philip Katen commented: “Our Team’s individual & collective commitment to continually improve safety in the workplace is a key element of our culture, which directly supports our Company’s vision to ‘Make the Impossible… to Make Life Better’. We are honored that our industry peers from across the country recognized the innovative and impactful safety improvements that our Team implemented, which ultimately earned 1st Place in MAPP’s Annual Safety Best Practice Award program. And we hope that other companies will implement similar projects at their facilities in order to advance the safety of the larger plastics industry.”
The Erie-based, family owned companies’ award-winning safety submission encompassed multiple, continuous improvement projects.
Plastikos, Micro Mold & Plastikos Medical specialize in products that positively affect quality of life, including diabetes care, innovative drug & vaccine development programs, medical testing applications, medication delivery systems, respiratory, endoscopic and surgical eye care devices, among other medical device applications.
Micro Mold, Plastikos, and Plastikos Medical afford high-precision, custom mold design & fabrication and scientific injection molding solutions in collaboration with industry-leading medical device OEMs to bring global advancements that positively impact the lives of hundreds-of-millions of people each year. To learn more, visit Plastikos, Micro Mold, and Plastikos Medical online at https://plastikoserie.com/.
MAPP is a national non-profit Trade Association based in Indianapolis, IN, which is managed by plastic industry leaders. It serves over 500 member companies from across the United States of America with its mission to enable leaders within the plastics industry to achieve new levels of success. To learn more, visit https://www.mappinc.com/.
