RICHMOND, VA – AdvantaStaff, a Chester, Virginia-based staffing services company, announced that the Company’s employees have achieved a rare milestone; they have worked one million hours without a recordable injury. Based on the latest available statistics by the U. S. Department of Labor, the manufacturing industry sector averaged 4.3 cases per 200,000 hours worked, or approximately 20 per one million. (2009)
The milestone is even more unusual for a temporary labor company, according to company President, Chris Chandler. “We stress a more robust system of screening and training for our people – we hire more carefully, train more thoroughly, and provide more support,” said Chandler. The company places employees with industrial clients throughout Central Virginia. “By reaching one million hours without a recordable injury, we’ve shattered the myth that to have a nimble, flexible temporary workforce you have to sacrifice safety,” said Chandler.
The company attributes much of its success to its experience in the industrial sector. AdvantaStaff is one of several companies that is owned and managed by the Wauford Group, an organization with deep roots in the local industrial economy.
CEO Mark Wauford puts the achievement in context, “In any business, regardless of its industrial sector, you have to establish the main priority. In our family of businesses, the number one priority is the safety of the people that work for us. Some people may think that such an accomplishment in a temporary services company is impossible, however, AdvantaStaff embraces the same core beliefs as our other companies and we are very proud of their achievement.”
Given the pressures of today’s economy, there is an increased need to focus on people and values. According to Mark Wauford, “A robust industrial sector is vital in the ever increasingly competitive economy. Ensuring the proper management of safety, quality and productivity is what will continue to differentiate us in the future.”
AdvantaStaff is a locally owned and managed staffing services firm that specializes in light industrial staffing. For more information contact AdvantaStaff at www.advantastaff.com or (804) 414-1560.
RICHMOND, VA – AdvantaStaff, a Chester, Virginia-based staffing services company, announced that the Company’s employees have achieved a rare milestone; they have worked one million hours without a recordable injury. Based on the latest available statistics by the U. S. Department of Labor, the manufacturing industry sector averaged 4.3 cases per 200,000 hours worked, or approximately 20 per one million. (2009)
The milestone is even more unusual for a temporary labor company, according to company President, Chris Chandler. “We stress a more robust system of screening and training for our people – we hire more carefully, train more thoroughly, and provide more support,” said Chandler. The company places employees with industrial clients throughout Central Virginia. “By reaching one million hours without a recordable injury, we’ve shattered the myth that to have a nimble, flexible temporary workforce you have to sacrifice safety,” said Chandler.
The company attributes much of its success to its experience in the industrial sector. AdvantaStaff is one of several companies that is owned and managed by the Wauford Group, an organization with deep roots in the local industrial economy.
CEO Mark Wauford puts the achievement in context, “In any business, regardless of its industrial sector, you have to establish the main priority. In our family of businesses, the number one priority is the safety of the people that work for us. Some people may think that such an accomplishment in a temporary services company is impossible, however, AdvantaStaff embraces the same core beliefs as our other companies and we are very proud of their achievement.”
Given the pressures of today’s economy, there is an increased need to focus on people and values. According to Mark Wauford, “A robust industrial sector is vital in the ever increasingly competitive economy. Ensuring the proper management of safety, quality and productivity is what will continue to differentiate us in the future.”
AdvantaStaff is a locally owned and managed staffing services firm that specializes in light industrial staffing. For more information contact AdvantaStaff at www.advantastaff.com or (804) 414-1560.