The International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) has recognized 34 dairy companies, including 5 in Wisconsin, for their outstanding achievements in worker safety in 2020 with the IDFA Dairy Industry Safety Recognition Award. This is the eighteenth year that IDFA has sponsored this program, highlighting the outstanding workplace safety achievements of U.S. dairy companies.
“In announcing these dairy companies as safety award winners, the dairy industry continues to demonstrate that safety in the workplace is the dairy industry’s number one priority,” said Michael Dykes, D.V.M., IDFA president and CEO. “Each award represents the success of the innovative and proactive approaches to workplace safety by dairy company safety teams. Every day, year after year, dairy companies go above and beyond to provide a safe and productive work environment. Consumers and customers of dairy foods companies value how these innovations help to deliver safe, wholesome and nutritious food to people around the world.”
Each company applied by detailing their occupational injury and illness performance rates as well as a providing a narrative essay on safety efforts at the facility. Evaluations and awards were based on a review of injury statistics from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and judged by Edwin G. Foulke, Jr., of Fisher & Phillips LLP, Kathie Canning of Dairy Foods magazine, and Taylor Boone of IDFA.
Companies recognized in Wisconsin include:
2021 Outstanding Awards in Workers Safety
Crystal Farms Dairy Company – Lake Mills, WI (Cheese)
Foremost Farms USA – Clayton, WI (Cheese)
Foremost Farms USA – Marshfield, WI (Cheese)
2021 Most Improved Award in Workers Safety
Masters Gallery Foods – Plymouth, WI (Cheese)
Masters Gallery Foods – Plymouth, WI (Trucking, Local)
