Kimberly-Clark depot celebrates six-year safety record
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Kimberly-Clark's distribution centre in Flint, north Wales, is celebrating notching up six years without any lost-time accidents (LTAs) – equating to 50,000 shifts at the warehouse and transport centre, which operates around the clock. The paper product manufacturer's distribution centre is run by logistics firm TDG.
TDG has worked with Kimberly-Clark at the Flint 23,000 sq m depot since 1996. The depot is the national distribution centre for Kimberly-Clark Professional in UK and Ireland, which supplies paper products and cleaning solutions to the commercial sector. It is also a regional distribution centre for Kimberly-Clark Professional's European distribution.
Chris Jones, general manager for TDG at Flint, said: "We spend a great deal of time on training and maintaining our compliance to both TDG and KC safety procedures. At the moment our safety record stands at 2,234 days without a lost time accident – which, particularly for a site which operates round-the-clock, is a real achievement."
The Flint distribution centre recently hosted a demonstration of best practice during TDG's first International Health and Safety meeting, where health and safety managers from UK, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands and Koblenz spent two days together to share experiences and best practice.
Pictured (L-R) are TDG's MD, David Bermingham; Chris Jones, TDG general manager at Flint; and Jan Spencer of the Kimberly-Clark global leadership team, who started his career at Flint depot. Now based in the US, he was very aware of Flint's safety record, and said he was very pleased to return to the site. He said: "My congratulations go to Chris and the whole team for maintaining such an excellent performance."
