Consistent safety awareness helps TLP achieve the important safety milestone

MENOMONEE FALLS, Wis. (June 12, 2014) — Tailored Label Products (TLP) today announced that its employees have reached an important safety milestone of accomplishing 10 years and over 1.3 million hours of work without a Lost Time Accident (LTA).

“By going for more than a decade without an LTA, our employees have demonstrated that in addition to reaching production and quality goals, safety continues to be a primary focus in their day-to-day activities,” said TLP Operations Manager, Mark Little. “Not many companies are willing to devote the manpower and resources we do at TLP to ensure safety in the workplace. Our employees are happier and more productive knowing they work in a safe environment and this ultimately results in better products and service for our customers.”

To honor and thank employees for their great achievement, the owners and managers hosted lunches for all three shifts at TLP’s Wisconsin and Georgia facilities. Brian Mirr of the Wisconsin Safety Council was also on hand to present TLP with a formal certificate of recognition for reaching this significant workplace safety milestone.

“At TLP, our company culture is heavily focused on attaining excellence in all aspects of our operations. This is especially true when it comes to providing a safe and enjoyable workplace for our employees,“ said Jeff Kerlin, President & COO. “The health and well being of our employees and visitors to our facilities is of great importance to us. To that end, we invest heavily in terms of our formal safety programs and employee education, ensuring that safety is always top of mind.

Tailored Label Products has received widespread recognition for being an industry leader when it comes to setting high standards in the workplace. Recent honors include winning a second Wisconsin Manufacturer of the Year Grand Award and being named to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s List of Top Workplaces for the last five consecutive years. Both of these awards are a direct reflection of TLP’s successful record of creating a safe and productive workplace for its employees.

About TLP (https://www.tailoredlabel.com)
Celebrating its 30^th anniversary, TLP is a custom manufacturer of high-performance labels, tags and die-\ cut adhesives. TLP provides custom-engineered adhesive and label solutions for the electronics, automotive, aerospace, industrial, life sciences, medical equipment, hydraulic fluid and power industries. TLP is headquartered in Menomonee Falls, Wis., has an additional manufacturing facility in Suwanee, Ga., and a Distribution & Fulfillment Center in Tijuana, Mexico. For more information, visit www.tailoredlabel.com.

We’ve discussed before how to develop high-performing teams that foster a culture of innovation and lead to a productive workforce which produces value for your customers. But how do you actually attract the best people to work for you? It’s all about the culture. In this post, we’ll explore six traits of a high-performing culture.

1. Integrity/Trust – Employees have to know they’re working for an employer with a strong and honest character. This trust is often developed with strong communication about expectations between the employer and employee. If an employee knows exactly what is expected of them, there won’t be any surprises along the way about job performance and they may feel more inclined to do their best work.
2. Innovation/Creativity – In a highly demanding industry like manufacturing, innovation is key to continually produce the best products and deliver on customer expectations. That creative thinking and development doesn’t always happen without a culture that encourages and nurtures thinking outside the box. Employees should understand that innovation is a daily exercise.
3. Personal Development/Accountability – Just like employers should be held accountable for providing a stimulating work environment and opportunities for growth and advancement, employees likewise need to put their best effort forward every day to grow professionally. This accountability to grow helps both parties and ensures the best minds are producing for customers.
4. Consistent Expectations/Fairness – High-performing cultures always establish a defined set of employee expectations and hold team members to those standards. This becomes especially important when defining standards of excellence for customer products. If employers set a high bar of quality for employees to achieve, the customer will ultimately benefit in the end.
5. Results = Rewards – It’s equally important to reward employees when they’ve done a great job and achieved a particularly impressive result, whether internally or for a customer. There are numerous ways to show recognition, and we’ll cover how to keep employees engaged in a separate blog post. But oftentimes, even the smallest reward can make a big impact on a hard-working employee.
6. Commitment – Employers can train their team members on soft skills like how to operate a machine, but hard skills that can’t be taught are the most valuable and worthy of recognition. Commitment to a job, to professional development or to learning a new skill all are valuable traits in an employee and should be recognized regularly by employers.