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Communication and Collaboration Lead to Milestone Safety Achievement for North Haven Team
Millwood, Inc. Blog | September 10, 2024
The Millwood team in North Haven, CT achieved one year without an accident at their facility on August 23 and celebrated as a team on August 30.
Plant Manager Jerry Taylor attributed this success to a collective effort in addressing safety concerns promptly and fostering a culture of safety awareness among team members. He emphasized the importance of aligning everyone's understanding of safety protocols and their individual roles in achieving safety goals.
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“I have an amazing team and making them feel safer and listened to will always be a priority of mine,” Jerry said.
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How Resilience, Sustainability and Digitization are Fortifying the
Supply Chain of Tomorrow
Millwood, Inc. Blog | March 8,2024
The supply chain industry was rife with disruptions at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, as previously-existing vulnerabilities and oversights were exacerbated by the unpredictable effects of the pandemic on the economy, logistics, the labor market and the availability of materials.
Over the past four years since then, the industry has been slowly recovering, and industry leaders are feeling cautiously optimistic at the start of 2024.
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Top 5 Safety Tips for
Working with Pallets
Millwood, Inc. Blog | June 30, 2023
At Millwood, safety is integrated in every part of how we do business. Our mission that all who come in contact with our company would clearly see the love of Christ in all that we do starts with our team members, and their safety is our top priority.
As National Safety Month comes to a close, we offer the following safety tips to help keep yourself and others safe when handling pallets in the workplace.
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The Pallet Black Market
Millwood, Inc. Blog | August 18, 2022
How do we avoid losing pallets? Considering that there are nearly two billion pallets in circulation each day, keeping track of each one of them is simply not feasible. However, lost pallets add up. According to Packaging Revolution, the cost of replacing lost packaging, including pallets, cost American businesses between $750 million and $1 billion per year. One cause of these losses is theft.
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Thieves steal pallets for their own purposes or to resell them. Plastic pallets are often sold to recyclers, and wooden pallets can be taken apart and repurposed or recycled as well. Some of this theft consists of individual actors, but there have been known organized crime rings centered on stealing pallets, sometimes with entire recycling facilities being implicated in the crimes. In some places, pallet theft is so rampant that many are unaware it’s even illegal.
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How to Hold On to Top Talent
Millwood, Inc. Blog | August 27, 2021
From recruiting the best candidates, to training, to retention, labor costs are one of the largest costs you will face in your business. Turnover makes that cost even higher; according to the Center for American Progress, the cost of replacing an employee will cost an average of 21 percent of that employee’s salary, and that number is only increasing.
In the wake of COVID-19, millions are leaving their current jobs to find new ones that offer better environments, more benefits and greater flexibility. How can you avoid losing your best workers, whether they’re in a corner office or the plant floor? To find out, the first thing we need to understand is why employees leave in the first place.
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Mental Health and Manufacturing
Millwood, Inc. Blog | April 8, 2021
Mental health, often overlooked in the workplace until recent years, is a significant factor when it comes to an employee’s wellbeing as well as their productivity levels.
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One study showed that mental health problems are 36 percent more prevalent in manufacturing employees than the national average. Occupational stress and demanding jobs can often lead to burnout and other mental health struggles, which create issues not just on an individual level but for their workplace as well.
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