Sister Companies, Plastikos, Micro Mold and Plastikos Medical Earn 2024 MAPP Awards

Plastikos Inc. was recently awarded the 2024 MAPP (Manufacturers Association for Plastics Processors) Safety Best Practice Award, as voted on by member companies from across the U.S. In addition, Plastikos, along with its 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 previous 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 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,” says Williams.

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 and General Manager, Philip Katen says “Our team’s individual and 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 first 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 family-owned companies’ award-winning safety submission encompassed multiple, continuous improvement projects that advanced a range of safety programs throughout the companies. “The overall impact of these projects goes far beyond the corresponding safety metrics.  Many of the projects check all the right boxes and make perfect sense. Most importantly, each project helps to make us safer and more efficient as a team,” says Williams.