PPSA Member Benefits
Membership in the Association has many advantages:
- Participation in the Annual Health and Safety Conference and service as a member of the Board of Directors provides an opportunity for personal and professional growth.
- The Pulp and Paper Safety Association is the ONLY national organization exclusively concerned with accident prevention in the pulp, paper, converting, recycle and forest product industry.
- The annual Conference provides great face-to-face networking opportunities.
- The Quarterly Report provides a way of bench-marking your own performance with others in similar operations.
- The Awards program provides a prestigious form of recognition to outstanding short-term and long-term safety performance by operating categories.
- The Association is an excellent forum for keeping up with latest OSHA standards.
- In-depth information on specific subjects is increasingly available at regional seminars. The cost of these seminars is minimized by virtue of holding them on a regional basis.
- The annual Conference provides a fine external motivational boost to hourly Safety Committee members as recognition for their active participation in your safety program.
- The cost of membership is the lowest of any association to our knowledge.
- The attendance of vendors at our annual Conference allows safety people to keep up with the latest safety equipment, tools and training.
Quarterly Report Sample
The quarterly reports are a great tool to help you stay up to date on the current direction and initiatives of the PPSA. They also contain useful industry information and safery alerts allowing members to take advantage of the key learnings from multiple companies in the pulp and paper manufactuing sector. They provide benchmark information on safety performance and communicate upcoming events and conferences industry wide.
Benchmark Survey Sample
While governmental data for industry statistics of often published years after the fact, PPSA data is published twice a year within very current time line. These data are unavailable anywhere else.
Using PPSA member contacts and working in association with the AF&PA, up-to-date injury and illness data for the industry are gathered and shared with member companies. Benchmark data for participating and member companies is gathered in the following fourteen categories:
- Bag Plants
- Tubes & Cores
- Corrugated Converting
- Folding Carton
- Other Paper Converting (Tissue, Envelope, cups, Specialty
- Siding, Veneer, Plywood, Particleboard, MDF
- Woodlands Operations (including Chip Mills)
- Gypsum
- Sawmills
- Newsprint, Paperboard, Pulp, Paper, Boxboard Mills
- 100% Recycle Mills
- Distribution Ops-wood
- Distribution Ops-paper
- Total Company