International 纸’s Occupational Health Nurses are Leading a Community of 安全
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“After helping send people down the right path, I feel like I am making a difference here in the lives of our employees. That’s a good feeling, and it’s one of the best parts of my job.”
Stanley 科波拉, RN, OHN, International 纸’s 富兰克林,弗吉尼亚州.、纸浆厂, was not always an occupational health nurse (OHN), 但 he always found ways to support those around him. He began his career in workers’ compensation insurance, while volunteering as an emergency medical technician. He became an emergency room RN just outside the heart of the Big Apple – New York City. 现在, a little more than a year into his role at Franklin, 科波拉, like the rest of IP’s OHN team, sees the strength of International 纸’s culture of safety within the communities where IP operates.
“这是一个小镇. Everybody knows each other,” said 科波拉. “It’s one thing to have coworkers you want to keep safe, 但, when it’s family or close friends that you’ve known forever, they take ownership of watching out for each other.”
对于我们的ohn在IP, everything begins and ends with safety — nothing is more important than team members getting home to their families at the end of each shift. 使之成为可能, it requires teamwork to look out for each other and dedicated safety professionals to ensure everyone is following procedures and protocol.
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Angela Conlay, RN, OHN, has lived just a 30-minute drive from the 曼斯菲尔德,. 盒纸板厂 几乎她的一生. Caring for her coworkers means caring for the people who make her community feel like home.
“Not only do we help when people are hurt, we do everything we can to prevent anything from happening in the first place,她解释道. “We educate as much as we can before, during and after anyone comes into our offices.”
由唐娜·福代尔领导, IP occupational health program manager, OHNs take the tall task of educating employees to heart. With regular weekly meetings, 他们讨论当前的话题, best practices and support each other in focusing on their facilities' unique needs. They also collaborate with each site’s environmental health and safety (EH&S)团队.
Being able to watch and support our safety team educating our team is amazing.
——安吉拉·康利，注册会计师，约翰
“They aren’t pulling the teams into classrooms for eight hours at a time. 而不是, they are going to the crews wherever they are to have open and hands-on discussions in their own work areas. Approaches like this matter to people because it helps things to stick.”
The Ripple Effects of Positive Impact
The concept of community plays an immense role in each of our mill’s culture of safety. Communities have been the heart of IP’s dedication to team members and safety for more than 125 years. There are many collaborative efforts, such as conversations and health fairs, to build trust and foster wellness – inside and outside the facility.
The annual health fairs organized by OHNs support employees even further by helping connect team members to a wide range of local community health services. These events offer eye exams, 听力测试, 乳房x光检查, 皮肤科检查, safety and personal protective equipment demonstrations, opportunities to talk to physicians from hospitals and Veteran Affairs medical centers, 和更多的. Every fair tends to look a little different, 但 each OHN pours a sky-high level of care into each one.
The most memorable moments are when I can use my nursing skills to help a coworker in need, like training our emergency medical responders and then hearing how they were able to apply their training to help their family members or close friends outside of work.
——伊丽莎白·布莱恩，注册会计师，约翰
“The most memorable moments are when I can use my nursing skills to help a coworker in need, like training our emergency medical responders and then hearing how they were able to apply their training to help their family members or close friends outside of work,伊丽莎白·布莱恩说, RN, OHN, 哥伦布, 小姐.、纸浆厂, with nearly15 years of IP service.
In honor of Occupational Health Nurses Week at International 纸, the best appreciation anyone can send to their facility’s OHN is to take the time to say thank you and rest assured knowing they are there to help and will communicate any possible health and safety concerns. Angela Conlay said it best: “None of it matters if our employees are not taken care of.”
