Employee Safety
As part of SOCMA members’ commitment to safety, annual employee safety information is reported to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA.) SOCMA collects this data from members participating in all three Tier levels of the ChemStewards® program. OSHA employee incident rates for SOCMA members are listed below. In addition, some members have provided supplemental information which has been linked to the data.

SOCMA member companies are engaged in the production of specialty batch chemistry that ultimately leads to a wide variety of products. SOCMA member facilities range in size from a dozen employees to several thousand employees.

*This is defined by OSHA as the number of recordable incidents for each 100 full-time employees per year, based on 2,000 hours worked per employee per year. The calculation follows:
= number of recordable cases x 200,000 employee hours
number of employee hours worked
 
 
 
Report Statistics
  Aggregate (As of 9/8/2008)
Calendar Year Company Employee Recordable Incidence Rate
2007 3.50
2006 3.74
2005 2.67
2004 2.56

ChemStewards®


What Members Are Saying…

“When you are in the custom manufacturing business like we are, ChemStewards® makes a really big difference as you go through a customer audit.  If you don’t have a comprehensive program like this in place you often can’t get your foot in the door.  In fact, we had a customer tell us we got his business because he learned that we received an award from SOCMA for our program.”

Dave Hurder
Vice President
McGean, Inc.