2018 Annual Awards Ceremony and Luncheon

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1 2018 Annual Awards Ceremony and Luncheon JANUARY 30, 2018 GEORGIA WORLD CONGRESS CENTER ATLANTA, GEORGIA

3 Master of Ceremonies: Greg Schwem Corporate Entertainer and Author Awards Presented By: John Vatri NAMI Chairman Cardinal Meat Specialists, Ltd. Barry Carpenter President & CEO North American Meat Institute

4 ANNUAL AWARD WINNERS Ronald Miniat Chairman of the Board The Miniat Companies E. Floyd Forbes Award is nam ed for the visionary w ho guided formation of the Western States Meat Packers Association (which later became the National Meat Association, a predecessor organization to NAMI). This award honors individuals for a career of outstanding industry related accomplishments and overall dedication to the meat industry. It has been presented annually since E. Floyd Forbes was a rancher from Marysville, California, and active in the California Cattlemen s Association. He served as President of CCA , and in 1933 accepted the position of representing western meat packers for the American Meat Institute. Western States Meat Packers Association was then formed in This year s winner, Ron Miniat, is an entrepreneur with over 60 years experience in the meat and animal fats and oils industry and currently serves as the chairman of the Board of The Miniat Companies; a 100+ year old family company now employing its fifth generation of family members. Ron s entrepreneurial spirit and decades long dedication to the meat industry make him a deserving recipient. Birko Corporation Supplier of the Year Award honors a supplier w ho has shown a spirit of partnership and made an outstanding contribution to the success of the meat and poultry industry. For more then 60 years, Birko Corporation has brought solutions to protein processors to ensure the safety of the products they deliver to their customers, and ultimately, consumers. Birko was selected for this award because is its commitment and work to continuously improve and innovate to ensure the safety of today s food supply. 4

5 Dr. Mark Festus Miller Professor and SALE Endowed Chair Texas Tech University The Harry L. Rudnick Educator s Award honors an individual from academia in recognition of outstanding contributions made in the field of food science education. Harry Rudnick was a Chicago lawyer who established the National Association of Hotel and Restaurant Meat Purveyors in 1942, which later became the North American Meat Processors Association, a predecessor organization to NAMI. This year s recipient, Mark Miller, has been an educator on the field of food and meat science for the past 35 years. His pursuit of excellence in teaching, research and service activities allow his graduate and undergraduate students the best opportunity to learn. He possesses all aspects of an outstanding, devoted educator in the field of food science. Stephen Quickert Senior Manager, Food Safety, Scientific Affairs Kraft Heinz Company Foundation for Meat & Poultry Research & Education Scientific Achievement Award honors an individual from industry, academia or government whose professional achievements have had a significant contribution to the scientific knowledge of the meat and poultry industry. The 2017 recipient, Steve Quickert, has over 35 years of experience in R&D and quality. He has provided invaluable scientific expertise to the meat industry for decades and has served on the Foundation s Research Advisory Committee since its inception. His dedication to the industry make him deserving of this award. 5

6 THE NORTH AMERICAN MEAT INSTITUTE WORKER SAFETY RECOGNITION AWARDS The primary program goals are to motivate participants to improve their worker safety performance through the establishment of sound safety and health programs at the plant level and to recognize those plants that have achieved a high level of safety performance as part of the continuing effort to reduce occupational injury and illness. In addition, the program can boost employee morale, reduce expenses associated with injuries and illness in the workplace and enhance the meat and poultry industry s overall image regarding employee safety and health. AWARDS EXPLANATION The various levels of awards that may be earned are based on an evaluation of each eligible plant s actual safety performance as well as its implementation of various key components of an effective safety and health program as measured by the safety program questionnaire. Of the 1,500 points available, 900, or 60 percent, may be earned based on the outcome of a statistical analysis of the plant s injury and illness data performed by the National Safety Council staff. The analysis includes an evaluation of both the Total Recordable Cases rate and the rate for Cases With Days Away from Work, Job Transfer, or Restriction (DART). The two rates are each worth up to 450 points (one half) of the total points available for safety performance. 6

7 WORKER SAFETY AWARD WINNERS AWARD OF HONOR BEF Foods, Inc. Xenia, OH JBS USA Omaha, NE Johnsonville Sausage Banner Creek Holton, KS Johnsonville Sausage Momence Packing Sheboygan, WI Brampton, Ontario OSI Industries Oakland, IA Pilgrim s Mount Pleasant, TX Plumrose USA Council Bluffs, IA Plumrose USA Elkhart, IN Keystone Foods, LLC Equity Group Georgia Division Camilla, GA Land O Frost, Inc. Lansing, IL Land O Frost, Inc. Madisonville, KY Land O Frost, Inc. Searcy, AR Long Prairie Packing Long Prairie, MN Mississauga, Ontario Toronto, Ontario Winnipeg, Manitoba Guelph, Ontario Quality Pork Processors Austin, MN Bolingbrook, IL Charlotte, NC Salt Lake City, UT Wilson, NC Hog Production Warsaw, NC Hog Production Rose Hill, NC Smithfield Premium Genetics Rose Hill, NC Hamilton, OH Washington Court House, OH 7

8 WORKER SAFETY AWARD WINNERS AWARD OF MERIT BEF Foods, Inc. Hillsdale, Michigan Brampton Poultry Brampton, Ontario BEF Foods, Inc. Lima, OH BEF Foods, Inc. Springfield, OH Boar s Head Provisions Co., Inc. Holland, MI Caviness Beef Packers Hereford, TX Caviness Beef Packers Amarillo Plant Hereford, TX Gibbon Packing Gibbon, NE Indiana Packers Corporation Delphi, IN JBS USA Beardstown, IL Johnsonville Sausage Countryside Sheboygan, WI Johnsonville Sausage Riverside Sheboygan, WI Johnsonville Sausage Watertown, WI Keystone Foods, LLC Equity Group Alabama Division Gadsden, Alabama 8 Brantford, Ontario Courtneypark Plant Mississauga, Ontario Toronto, Ontario Omaha Steaks Snyder Plant Omaha, Nebraska Pilgrim s Nacogdoches, TX Grayson, KY Junction City, KS Milan, MO Omaha, NE Orange City, IA Peru, IN San Jose, CA Springfield, MA

9 WORKER SAFETY AWARD WINNERS St. Charles, IL Duplin Marketing Company Clinton, NC Tar Heel, NC Wichita, KS Hog Production Algona, IA Hog Production Milford, UT Hog Production Princeton, MO Hog Production Warsaw, NC Frontenac, KS AWARD OF COMMENDATION Hog Production Waverly, VA Dayton, OH Premium Pet Health Denver, CO Martin City, MO Carroll, IA Omaha Steaks 96th St. Plant Omaha, NE Fairfield, OH Birchwood Foods Kenosha, WI Omaha Steaks F St. Plant Omaha, NE OSI Industries Chicago, IL Pilgrim s Live Oak, FL Cambridge City, IN BEF Foods, Inc. Sulphur Springs, TX Johnsonville Foods, LLC Meadowside Sheboygan Falls, WI FPL Food, LLC Augusta, GA Mason City, IA Lincoln, NE Saag s Products LLC San Leandro, CA Swaggerty s Sausage, Inc. Kodak, TN 9

10 WORKER SAFETY AWARD WINNERS CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION Boar s Head Provisions Co., Inc. Forrest City, Arkansas Boar s Head Provisions Co., Inc. Petersburg, VA Cimpl s LLC Yankton, SD Green Bay Dressed Beef, LLC Acme St. Facility Green Bay, WI Green Bay Dressed Beef, LLC East River Facility Green Bay, WI, Middlesboro, KY Cumming, GA Square-H Brands, Inc. Vernon, CA 10

11 THE NORTH AMERICAN MEAT INSTITUTE ENVIRONMENTAL RECOGNITION AWARDS The North American Meat Institute has developed for its members use a series of environmental tools that may be adopted to address specific plant issues. The Environmental Recognition Award Program is a four-tier, voluntary environmental management system (EMS) toolbox, coupled with an awards program that ranges from simple to complex. THE TIERED APPROACH The North American Meat Institute developed a four-tiered environmental recognition program to help increase EMS development and implementation throughout the meat and poultry industry, a proven method to achieve continual environmental improvement. The program begins in Tier 1 with a basic package of environmental policy statements and environmental policy compliance criteria, advances through more comprehensive requirements in Tier 2, incorporates a complete EMS model developed in cooperation with the EPA as Tier 3, and culminates with an ISO EMS as Tier 4. A complete description of the program and tier criteria can be found at under events. 11

12 ENVIRONMENTAL AWARD WINNERS American Skin Food Group Burgaw, NC* Duplin Marketing Company, LLC Clinton, NC Keystone Foods Equity Group Ohio Division North Baltimore, OH Premium Pet Health Smithfield, VA Bolingbrook, IL Carroll, IA Charlotte, NC Cincinatti, OH Crete, NE Cudahy, WI Denver, CO Elizabeth, NJ Grayson, KY Junction City, KS 12 Kansas City, MO Kinston, NC Lincoln, NE Madison City, IA Middlesboro, KY Milan, MO Monmouth, IL Omaha, NE Orange City, IA Peru, IN Salt Lake City, UT San Jose, CA Sioux Center, IA Sioux City, IA Smithfield, VA

13 ENVIRONMENTAL AWARD WINNERS Springfield, MA St. Charles, IL St. James, MN Wichita, KS Wilson, NC Smithfield Hog Production Algona, IA Smithfield Hog Production Laurinburg, NC Smithfield Hog Production Princeton, MO Smithfield Hog Production Rose Hill, NC Smithfield Hog Production Warsaw, NC Smithfield Hog Production Waverly, VA Smithfield Hog Production Yuma, CO Smithfield Premium Genetics Roanoke Rapids, NC Smithfield Specialty Foods Toano, VA Alma Foods, LLC Alma, KS Carthage, MO Columbus, KS Huntsville, AR Green Forest, AR Jonesboro, AR Mountain Home Feed Mill Mtn. Home, AR Mt. Olive, NC Ozark, AR Alix Feed Mill Ozark, AR Raeford, NC* Turkey, NC Cimpl s LLC Yankton, SD* 13

14 ENVIRONMENTAL AWARD WINNERS Hormel Foods Corporation Algona, IA Columbus Junction, IA Hormel Foods Corporation Austin, MN Hormel Foods Corporation Fremont, NE Hormel Foods Corporation Tucker, GA JBS USA Omaha, NE Keystone Foods Kentucky Division Albany, KY Keystone Foods Eufaula Division Bakerhill, AL Keystone Foods Georgia Division Camilla, GA Keystone Foods Gadsden Division Gadsden, AL Keystone Foods North Carolina Division Reidsville, NC Rochelle Foods, LLC Rochelle, IL Swiss American Sausage Co. Lathrop, CA Armarillo, TX Dakota City, SD Hillsdale, IL Lexington, NE Logansport, IN Madison, NE Perry, IA Farmville Feed Mill Farville, NC** Land O Frost, Inc. Lansing, IL Land O Frost, Inc. Madisonville, KY Land O Frost, Inc. Searcy, AR OSI Industries Fort Atkinson, WI** OSI Industries Oakland, IA Skylark Meats, LLC Omaha, NE 14

15 ENVIRONMENTAL AWARD WINNERS Greenfield, IN Emporia, KS Cambridge City Cincinnati, OH* *Tier Advancement **New Award Winner Dayton Cincinnati, OH* Frontenac Cincinnati, OH* Hamilton Cincinnati, OH* Washington Court House Cincinnati, OH* Green Bay Dressed Beef, LLC East River Facility Green Bay, WI Keystone Foods USA Proteins Jefferson, WI** King s Command Foods, LLC Kent, WA On-Cor Frozen Foods Aurora, IL** Pilgrim s Guntersville, AL** Fairfield Cincinnati, OH 15

Marel Marlen International Mepaco Middleby Corporation Multivac, Inc.

16 Thank you to our generous sponsors: With support of their members: Anritsu Infivis, Inc. Grote Industries, Inc. Handtmann Inc. MAJA Food Technology, Inc. Marel Marlen International Mepaco Middleby Corporation Multivac, Inc. Packing Progressions Inc. Poly-Clip System Provisur Technologies, Inc. Reiser Rome Ltd. Weber, Inc.

2016 Worker Safety Recognition Awards. Awards Explanation

2016 Worker Safety Recognition Awards The primary program goals are to motivate participants to improve their worker safety performance through the establishment of sound safety and health programs at