Mercury Marine Wins 22nd Annual Corporate Safety Award

Mercury Marine has been awarded the Wisconsin Corporate Safety Award for 2015.

The Wisconsin Safety Council and the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development will honor Mercury Marine next month as one of 15 companies to win this year’s Wisconsin Corporate Safety Award.

The awards will be presented during the 74th annual Wisconsin Safety and Health Conference at the Kalahari Resort and Convention Center in Wisconsin Dells on May 17 and 18, 2016.

“We are honored to win the Corporate Safety Award in the state of Wisconsin,” said Jim Sutton, Mercury Marine director of safety and occupational health. “Our safety values at Mercury drive our success and those values deal with respect, dignity, humility and integrity. To be recognized for our dedication to safety is a testament to the hard work of every employee at Mercury Marine to ensure that our workplace is safe and we will continue to make safety a priority every day.”

Founded in 1923, the Wisconsin Safety Council is Wisconsin’s leading provider of workplace safety training and programming and is dedicated to saving the lives of Wisconsin workers. As the state chapter of the National Safety Council, WSC is the educational division of the Wisconsin Manufacturers’ Association and the Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce. Representing more than 4,000 organizations across the state, WSC provides training, products, certification, research, resources and collaboration for the thousands of safety and health professionals in Wisconsin.

“This year’s winners embody the success stories that make Wisconsin one of the safest states in which to work” said Janie Ritter, director of the Wisconsin Safety Council. “We would like to congratulate the winning companies along with all the finalists as they are true models to businesses across the state of what it means to make the safety of their employees a priority each and every day.”

In 2015, Mercury Marine implemented both a supervisor roadmap to provide guidance in core safety activities and a pre-startup safety review process for new machine installations. The company saw a 25 percent reduction in total recordable injury rates and a 50 percent reduction in lost time injury.