safety – GreenWood

Nyyaa Plume Earns OSHA Certification

Written on 01/15/2026. Posted in Press Releases.

Congratulations to Nyyaa Plume from our project location in Elkton, Virginia, for successfully passing the OSHA 510 (Occupational Safety and Health Standards for Construction Industry). The OSHA 510 is core training for construction safety professionals, covering OSHA standards, policies, procedures, and hazard identification in construction. As a result, Nyyaa has been promoted to Safety Officer. Great work, Nyyaa!

Through our “Always Aware” Safety Program, GreenWood is committed to performing work safely without any occurrences as our number one priority at all times. With a daily focus on safety, we ensure that every task is performed safely for the protection of our employees.

GreenWood, Inc. Earns Safety Award for 15th Consecutive Year

Written on 07/08/2025. Posted in Press Releases.

We are pleased to announce that we have earned the McGriff Workplace Safety Excellence Award for achieving excellence in safety performance throughout the company. This prestigious award recognizes only those companies who achieve outstanding overall safety performance based on workers’ compensation policy loss ratio, workers’ compensation experience modification (EMR), and BLS/DART/OSHA recordable incident rate. GreenWood is the only company to achieve this level of recognition for a 15th consecutive year.

“We are proud to recognize GreenWood for this unprecedented achievement,” says Warren Blanchard of McGriff Insurance Services. “This award reflects the company’s commitment to safety and the well-being of their employees. Every year, GreenWood earns this award for consistently achieving impressive results.”

Mike Simmons, GreenWood’s Director of Safety, adds, “Our daily goal is to work safely without any occurrences. Through our company-wide ‘always aware’ safety program, we ensure that every task is performed safely for the protection of our employees. That’s our number one priority at all times.”

GreenWood Scores 99.82 Safety Rating

Written on 04/08/2025. Posted in Press Releases.

Through our association with Captive Resources (CRI), we recently completed a successful risk control assessment which is a structured process for evaluating, prioritizing, and mitigating potential safety risks. We are proud to announce that we achieved an overall score of 99.82, ranking us as having one of the safest programs in the industry.

The assessment process involves an in-depth review of risk control policies and procedures compared to industry best practices. The risk control assessment helps identify strength and improvement opportunities that are used to create action plans that improve our overall best-in-class “always aware” safety program. This is one of the many ways we make GreenWood a safe place to work!

GreenWood Inc. Earns Highwire Platinum Safety Award

Written on 09/10/2024. Posted in Press Releases.

GreenWood, Inc. is proud to announce that it has been awarded the Highwire Platinum Safety Award for its continuous project work at Merck in Elkton, Virginia. This prestigious award is a reflection of GreenWood’s ongoing commitment to safety and outstanding results each year at this project. GreenWood’s “Always Aware” safety program is integrated with Merck’s safety standards to create an exceptionally safe work environment for all employees. The Platinum Safety Award is the highest honor awarded by Highwire.

The Highwire Safety Assessment reviews a company’s historic safety performance and current safety management systems. The program includes a thorough, objective and consistent evaluation of company performance so that clients and contractors can identify, monitor, and manage risk smarter. The results provide a strong indicator of how a contractor values safety and serves a reliable predictor of future performance. GreenWood received an average of 99 out of 100 for every trade category with zero discrepancies, and no identified weaknesses.

“This recognition by Highwire points to the foundation of our safety standards and the over-arching program that is designed to maintain a safe work environment while protecting employees,” says Mike Simmons, Safety Director for GreenWood, Inc. “Our teams work hard to be safe which is core to our safety culture and is our top priority in all the work we perform every day.”

Highwire is the Contractor Success Platform for asset owners, general contractors, and facilities managers. The world’s most admired organizations — including Skanska, Merck, and Bond Brothers — use Highwire to ensure their contracting partners deliver great work, on budget and on schedule, by collaborating with them to dynamically mitigate safety, financial, quality and sustainability risks throughout every project lifecycle.

CPR and First Aid Training Held for GreenWood’s Home Office Team

Written on 07/09/2024. Posted in Press Releases.

The team at GreenWood’s home office recently completed a CPR and First Aid training course led by Greenville Health & Safety. The course covered the key aspects of CPR with hands-on instruction along with mock scenarios that taught proper first aid applications so that employees know how to respond and care for medical emergencies at work. GreenWood personnel also experienced instructor-led training for automated external defibrillator (AED) usage. This type of training is conducted as part of GreenWood’s “Always Aware” safety program which emphasizes the health, safety, and well-being of all employees at the job site, office, or at home. At GreenWood, we believe that employees who think and act safely…are safe!

GreenWood, Inc. Earns the McGriff Workplace Safety Excellence Award for 14th Consecutive Year

Written on 07/02/2024. Posted in Press Releases.

GreenWood recently earned the McGriff Workplace Safety Excellence Award for achieving excellence in safety performance throughout the company. Only companies who achieve outstanding overall safety performance based on workers’ compensation policy loss ratio, workers’ compensation experience modification (EMR), and BLS/DART/OSHA recordable incident rate are eligible for this recognition. This marks the 14th consecutive year that GreenWood has received this award – an accomplishment no other company has achieved.

“We are proud of GreenWood’s commitment to safety which is evident in their safe work practices,” says Warren Blanchard, McGriff Insurance Services. “This type of recognition is well deserved for a company that consistently achieves these impressive results year after year.”

Syensqo Project Reaches 1.5 Million Safe Hours

Written on 05/14/2024. Posted in Press Releases.

Our project at Syensqo in Augusta, Georgia recently celebrated 1.5 million safe work hours without a lost time event. What a great accomplishment for this team! GreenWood provides supplemental maintenance, turnarounds, operations support, and capital construction services for this specialty polymers plant. The prevention of incidents, injuries, and illnesses is the hallmark standard for GreenWood’s “Always Aware” safety program. Celebrating these accomplishments recognizes the hard work and dedicated focus our team puts on safety every day.

Ashlyn Vickers Joins GreenWood, Inc. as Safety Coordinator

Written on 04/03/2024. Posted in Press Releases.

Ashlyn Vickers recently joined GreenWood as Environmental Health & Safety Coordinator for the GreenWood home office. In this role, Ashlyn is responsible for administering various environmental and safety programs, and initiatives in the workplace to ensure the health and safety of GreenWood employees at project locations across the United States. These responsibilities include the administration of the workers’ compensation program to include effective medical case management, reporting, root cause investigations, record maintenance and follow-up. Additionally, Ashlyn ensures compliance with applicable local, state, and federal health and safety regulations for employees, staff, and customers.

In previous career positions, Ashlyn held responsibilities in safety, quality control, and manufacturing. She is a graduate of Montreat College where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences and holds several OSHA verified certifications. Welcome to GreenWood, Ashlyn!

Celebration Recognizes “Always Aware” Safety Success at West Virginia Project Locations

Written on 08/22/2023. Posted in Press Releases.

GreenWood recently held a mid-year safety celebration at the company’s West Virginia project locations to mark continuous safe work performance without a lost time event. Several projects in this area provide services for heavy industrial maintenance, electrical, instrumentation, mechanical and civil for multiple client locations. Our company’s “Always Aware” program emphasizes employee safety and wellness which has resulted in over 20 years of project safety performance in West Virginia. The celebration recognized this team’s consistency in placing safety first in everything they do. As a result, safe work environments are maintained at all times. Congratulations to everyone at Team GreenWood! See more celebration images on our LinkedIn post.

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