Employees from Salmon Arm乌鸦传媒檚 Bid Group will be making time to mark 2,000 days with no time lost due to work-related injuries.

Staff and management, including management from Bid Group乌鸦传媒檚 Quebec head office, will be at Elks Park on Saturday, June 10, to celebrate the safety milestone reached on April 22.

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The Salmon Arm branch works with other Bid Group branches to manufacture turnkey sawmills and planar mills.

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With 60 staff, the Salmon Arm branch is the company乌鸦传媒檚 smallest. That means staff are working closely together.

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Rischmueller explained Bid Group is very safety oriented. When employees are hired they go through a 乌鸦传媒渟afety indoctrination,乌鸦传媒� and are required to learn safe working procedures for every tool or piece of equipment anybody would use here.乌鸦传媒�

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If there is a potential for an accident, a 乌鸦传媒渘ear miss report乌鸦传媒� is created and shared.

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Jason said employees at the Salmon Arm branch are proud of the safety record and their quality of workmanship.

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Wilf said safety isn乌鸦传媒檛 just important to the company, but also to prospective clients.

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Jason said reaching the 2,000-day milestone hasn乌鸦传媒檛 been an easy feat, but it乌鸦传媒檚 something he and fellow Bid Group personnel believe in and work towards as a team.

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