LAKE FOREST, Ill., April 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Brunswick
Corporation (NYSE: BC) announced today the recipients of its safety
award program for 2009. The purpose of the program is to
encourage, recognize and reward employees and facilities that have
achieved outstanding safety and health performance through
promoting and practicing safety awareness, ultimately minimizing
workplace incidents and injuries. All Brunswick manufacturing
and distribution facilities worldwide are eligible for such
recognition.
For 2009, three facilities received the Chairman's Safety Award,
the company's highest, while 28 additional facilities were
recognized with Distinguished Awards for their 2009 safety
performance. Additionally, 39 facilities were cited for achieving
no lost-time incidents during 2009.
The Chairman's Safety Award is selected and presented by
Brunswick senior management to the
most outstanding performers for the preceding year. The
Distinguished Safety Award is achieved by meeting specific safety
performance results for the preceding year, which include incident
rates and other Brunswick
criteria. Three facilities have won the prestigious Chairman's
Safety Award, including:
- Edgewater, Fla., Brunswick
Commercial and Government Products;
- Juarez, Mexico, Mercury Marine; and
- Palm Coast, Fla., Sea Ray
Boats.
As Chairman's Safety Award recipients, each of these facilities
will receive a $10,000 grant from
Brunswick, which will be donated
to a local charity chosen by the plant. Additionally,
Palm Coast has achieved 4.3
million hours without a lost-time incident over the past several
years.
Also of note among the plants being recognized for their safety
achievements are Knoxville and
Vonore, Tenn., plants, which have
achieved 2 million and 1.6 million continuous hours without
sustaining a lost-time incident, respectively. Brunswick's
Boston Whaler plant in Edgewater,
Fla., also has logged 1.8 million hours without a lost-time
incident. Meanwhile, Mercury Plants
3, 4 and 36 in Fond du Lac, Wis.,
as well as Product Development and Engineering in Merritt Island, Fla., have all achieved the 1
million hours mark.
Twenty-eight Brunswick's
manufacturing and distribution facilities worldwide were recently
cited for their safety performance in 2009, including:
- Atlanta, Ga., Mercury Marine
Distribution Center Plant 73;
- Benton, Ark., Land N Sea;
- Dandridge, Tenn., US
Marine;
- Edgewater, Fla., Boston
Whaler;
- Fond du Lac, Wis., Mercury
Marine Parts & Accessories Plant 3;
- Fort Wayne, Ind., BBG
Operations;
- Hayward, Calif., Mercury
Marine Regional Distribution Center Plant 75;
- Houston, Texas, Land N
Sea;
- Kansas City, Mo., Land N
Sea;
- Kent, Wash., Diversified
Marine Products;
- Knoxville, Tenn., Sea Ray
Boats;
- Lake Suzy, Fla., Land N
Sea;
- Lawrenceville, Ga., Land N
Sea;
- Lebanon, Mo., Lowe Boats;
- Merritt Island, Fla., Sea Ray
Boats Sykes Creek;
- Merritt Island, Fla., Product
Development and Engineering;
- Miami, Fla., Mercury Marine
Regional Distribution Center Plant 97;
- Mississauga, Ontario,
Mercury Marine Plant 20;
- Muskegon, Mich., Brunswick
Bowling and Billiards;
- New Bern, N.C., Hatteras
Yachts;
- Norfolk, Va., Land N Sea;
- Pompano Beach, Fla., Land N
Sea;
- Reynosa, Mexico, Brunswick
Bowling and Billiards;
- Shreveport, La., Land N
Sea;
- Suzhou, China, Mercury Marine
Outboards Plant 58;
- Taycheedah, Wis., Mercury
Marine Racing Plant 36;
- Vonore, Tenn., Sea Ray Boats
Tellico, and
- White Bear Lake, Minn., Land N
Sea.
"At Brunswick, we believe it is everyone's responsibility to
contribute to safety in the workplace. I'm very pleased with
our employees' commitment to our high safety standards and
congratulate these facilities and their employees on their
tremendous accomplishments," McCoy
said. "But we do not intend to rest. While our safety
record is significantly better than our peers in the industries in
which we work – and getting better all the time – we are just
getting started on our safety journey."
About Brunswick
Headquartered in Lake Forest,
Ill., Brunswick Corporation endeavors to instill "Genuine
Ingenuity"(TM) in all its leading consumer brands, including
Mercury and Mariner outboard engines; Mercury MerCruiser
sterndrives and inboard engines; MotorGuide trolling motors;
Attwood marine parts and accessories; Land 'N Sea, Kellogg Marine,
Diversified Marine and Benrock parts and accessories distributors;
Arvor, Bayliner, Bermuda, Boston
Whaler, Cabo Yachts, Crestliner, Cypress Cay, Harris, Hatteras, Lowe, Lund, Meridian, Ornvik, Princecraft,
Quicksilver, Rayglass, Sea Ray, Sealine, Triton, Trophy, Uttern and
Valiant boats; Life Fitness and Hammer Strength fitness equipment;
Brunswick bowling centers,
equipment and consumer products; Brunswick billiards tables and foosball
tables. For more information, visit
http://www.brunswick.com.
SOURCE Brunswick Corporation