Five linen and uniform service industry TRSA members and two associates are 2020 SafeTRSA Excellence Award winners, honored for their projects or achievements that produced or reflected safety gains due to support from top management, employee involvement, training or exemplary communication.

Linen and uniform service winners include:

NOVO Health Services, the Atlanta-based operator of four healthcare linen service laundries, demonstrates safety excellence through management leadership, employee involvement, worksite analysis, hazard prevention and control, and safety and health training. The company’s Safety and Health Manual includes 25 comprehensive policies for which specific training has been developed and presented as appropriate. An online program assigns monthly tasks with required completion dates, including training, fire drills, emergency action plan review, OSHA-required record review and submission, and local- and corporate-team audits specifying corrective action. From 2017 to 2019, NOVO’s total recordable injury and illness rate (TRIR) is 3.4 and days away from work, reassignment or transfer (DART) rate is 2.0; in 2019 alone, 3.0 and 1.7. Industrywide these figures are 5.2 and 3.5.

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