Nov 26
Ernie Machado, risk manager at California’s Foster Farms, has been recoginsed with a Risk and Insurance® Risk Innovator Award for revolutionising safety standards in the poultry-processing business. Machado launched a unique testing programme that is helping to solve a problem that often disabled workers.
Workers in the poultry industry are at a high risk of upper extremity accidents, with repetitive motion injuries at the top of injury charts. Foster Farms have worked to install the best possible ergonomic machines and workplaces for their employees processing 1.2m chickens and turkeys…