Georgia-Pacific LLC, parent company of GP PRO, recently received two Gold Safety Awards from Liberty Mutual® Insurance.

Liberty Mutal’s Gold Award recognizes companies that have achieved an 80% better than industry average with a minimum of 200,000 labor hours Days Away Restricted Transfer (DART) rate. Georgia-Pacific received the awards for its expansion projects in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and Jackson, Tennessee. Liberty Mutal serves as the underwriter of Georgia-Pacific’s owner-controlled insurance programs for each site.

“Culture and communication are very important with large scale projects such as the new Dixie plant in Jackon, Tennessee,” said Mike Evans, Georgia-Pacific senior project manager. “Our partners played an integral role in developing safety plans for the construction site. We selected partners that make safety for employees and everyone on a worksite important, just as we do here at Georgia-Pacific. We collaborated to create safety plans and revise them as needed. We also worked together to communicate with everyone on the site, and cultivated a culture where everyone contributed to the plan and brought their comparative advantage—the knowledge and experience they had—to the project.”

About GP PRO
Based in Atlanta, Georgia-Pacific and its subsidiaries are among the world’s leading manufacturers and marketers of bath tissue, paper towels and napkins, tableware, paper-based packaging, office papers, cellulose, specialty fibers, nonwoven fabrics, building products, and related chemicals. The company operates approximately 150 facilities and employs approximately 30,000 people directly and creates nearly 89,000 jobs indirectly. GP PRO, a division of Georgia-Pacific, manufactures and sells well-known brands like ActiveAire®, Angel Soft® Professional Series, Brawny®, Compact®, Dixie®, Dixie Ultra®, enMotion®, and Pacific Blue™. GP PRO products meet restroom, food service, and break room needs for office buildings, health care, food service, high-traffic, lodging, retail, and education facilities, plus a wide range of industrial and manufacturing facilities in North America. For more information, visit gppro.com.