HanesBrands Distribution Center Achieves Safety Milestone
17 February 2017 - 7:15AM
Business Wire
Hanes’ Cleveland Distribution Center reaches 2 million employee
hours without injury, a significant achievement in the company’s
long-held commitment to employees’ safety and health
HanesBrands (NYSE: HBI), a leading global marketer of everyday
basic apparel under world-class brands, today announced that its
Cleveland Distribution Center, located in Kings Mountain, N.C., was
one of 34 facilities in the state of North Carolina to achieve 2
million employee hours without injury in 2016.
N.C. Department of Labor Commissioner Cherie Berry visited the
distribution center to present the certificate to Joel Long,
director of distribution for HanesBrands, on behalf of the
facility’s more than 500 employees. The NCDOL million-hour safety
awards are given to facilities that accumulate 1 million or more
employee hours with no cases of injury or illness that involve days
away from work.
“It is important that we recognize companies when they exceed
expectations of safety and health in their workplace, and the
HanesBrands facility in Kings Mountain has demonstrated that
commitment with this recent 2 million-man hour award,” Commissioner
Berry said.
Long commended the Cleveland Distribution Center team for the
achievement: “Safety is a top priority at HanesBrands, and a
responsibility that each of us at the Cleveland Distribution Center
owns – both for ourselves and those we work with. Achieving 2
million safe hours is a reflection of the strong teamwork and focus
of everyone who works here.”
The Cleveland Distribution Center, which ships intimate apparel
orders for Bali, Playtex and Maidenform, from department-store and
mid-tier retailers, has a long track record of safe operations. The
facility has earned six consecutive NCDOL Gold Safety Awards
(2011-2016) and achieved 1 million safe hours in 2016.
The company’s Canterbury Distribution Center, which is
co-located with Cleveland, also has a strong safety record. The
facility, which employs nearly 400 operators who ship Hanes,
Playtex and Just My Size products to mass and regional retailers,
has received five consecutive NCDOL Gold Safety Awards (2012-2016),
one Silver Award (2011) and achieved 1 million safe hours in
February 2016.
Since 2014, Hanes has expanded the Kings Mountain facilities a
combined 235,000 square feet and added 285 jobs to handle increased
volume and responsibilities.
HanesBrands
HanesBrands, based in Winston-Salem, N.C., is a socially
responsible leading marketer of everyday basic innerwear and
activewear apparel in the Americas, Europe, Australia and
Asia/Pacific under some of the world’s strongest apparel brands,
including
Hanes, Champion, Playtex, DIM, Bali, Maidenform, Bonds, JMS/Just
My Size, L´eggs, Wonderbra, Nur Die/Nur
Der, Lovable, Berlei, and Gear for Sports. The
company sells T-shirts, bras, panties, shapewear, underwear, socks,
hosiery, and activewear produced in the company’s low-cost global
supply chain. A member of the S&P 500 stock index, Hanes has
approximately 70,000 employees in more than 40 countries and is
ranked No. 448 on the Fortune 500 list of America’s largest
companies by sales. Hanes takes pride in its strong reputation for
ethical business practices. The company is the only apparel
producer to ever be honored by the Great Place to Work Institute
for its workplace practices in Central America and the Caribbean,
and is ranked No. 167 on the Forbes magazine list of America’s Best
Employers. For seven consecutive years, Hanes has won the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency Energy Star sustained
excellence/partner of the year award – the only apparel company to
earn sustained excellence honors. The company ranks No. 172 on
Newsweek magazine’s green list of 500 largest U.S. companies for
environmental achievement. For more information about the company
and its corporate social responsibility initiatives, including
environmental, social compliance and community improvement
achievements go to www.Hanes.com/corporate, and connect on Facebook
(www.facebook.com/hanesbrandsinc) and Twitter (@hanesbrands).
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