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Last Updated: Feb 13, 2017 - 1:45:37 AM |
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Four employees of Morton Bahamas Limited in Inagua who are attending a conference in the Washington, D.C., area paid courtesy calls on His Excellency Dr. Eugene Newry, Bahamas Ambassador to the United States, and Mrs. Paulette Zonicle, Bahamas Consulate General to Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, August 27, 2014.
Included in the group are Mr. Etienne Farquharson, Environment, Health and Safety Manager with Morton Bahamas Limited; Mrs. Jennifer Brown, President of the Bahamas Industrial Manufacturers and Allied Workers Union (BIMAWU); Mr. Wilfred Solomon, BIMAWU Vice President; and Mr. Allan C. Clare, BIMAWU Secretary General. They are participating in the annual Voluntary Protection Programs Safety Conference currently being held at the Gaylord Hotel, Oxon illHill, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C., from Sunday, August 24, to Friday, August 29.
Secretary Mikhail Bullard at the Embassy, 2220 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., and after a light lunch in the conference room, they called on Consul General Zonicle at the Consulate Annex, located at 1025 Vermont Avenue, N.W.
Introduced by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in July of 1982, the Voluntary Protection Safety Conference is the largest safety conference held in the U.S.
“OSHA’s goal is to be partners with management and labor for a safer, healthier work environment,” OSHA notes in a brochure. “In addition, OSHA encourages continual improvement of safety and health through the VPP process.”
Only companies that “demonstrate commitment to safety and health beyond OSHA requirements can participate” in the conference.
Mr. Farquharson said Morton Bahamas Limited sponsored the group’s participation in the conference because the company “is big on safety and believes that if union and management work in harmony everyone prospers.”
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