Uponor Campuses Earn Safety Awards

The company’s Apple Valley campus won its fifth Governor’s Safety Award, recognized at the Bronze level this year, and the Uponor Lakeville Distribution Center won its fourth award, achieving the highest level of Diamond.

The awards date to 1934 and recognize Minnesota employers for safety and health excellence in protecting employees from injuries, illnesses and incidents. Organizations with an incident rate below those of the state and national rates in their industry are awarded for their efforts.

“We start every shift-change meeting with the safety topic, and in 2023, we made enhancements to our safety program and placed emphasis on improving our safety culture,” said Jon Sillerud, vice president, integrated supply chain. “We also launched a Mission Zero program to raise awareness of safety with all employees. In 2023 we reduced our lost-time-incident frequency rate by 48 percent, which was a huge improvement.”

Uponor attributes this recognition to not only raising employees’ awareness and improving its safety culture, but also to a system of extensive self-audits, inspections, and risk assessments, as well as a newly implemented computer-based training.

Visit MinnesotaSafetyCouncil.org to see a complete list of award recipients.