Uponor Services Honored for Office Security Efforts

APPLE VALLEY, Minn. — Uponor North America has once more been honored with two Governor’s Security Awards by the Minnesota Security Council.

The corporate’s Apple Valley campus gained its fifth Governor’s Security Award, acknowledged on the Bronze stage this yr, and the Lakeville distribution heart gained its fourth award, reaching the very best stage, Diamond.

The annual Governor’s Security Awards, which date again to 1934, acknowledge Minnesota employers for excellence in defending staff from accidents, sicknesses, and different well being incidents. Organizations with an incident fee under these of the state and nationwide charges of their trade are awarded for his or her efforts.

“Security is the number-one precedence throughout the built-in provide chain group,” stated Jon Sillerud, vice chairman of built-in provide chain, in a press launch. “We begin each shift-change assembly with the security matter, and in 2023, we made enhancements to our security program and positioned emphasis on enhancing our security tradition. We additionally launched a Mission Zero program to boost consciousness of security with all staff. In 2023 we diminished our lost-time incident frequency fee by 48 %, which was an enormous enchancment.”

Sillerud went on to say that as a nine-time recipient of the award, Uponor attributes the popularity to not solely elevating staff’ consciousness and enhancing its security tradition, but in addition to a system of in depth self-audits, inspections, and threat assessments, in addition to a newly applied computer-based coaching.