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FIBERS AND TEXTILES COMPANY GASTONIA PLANT AUGUST. 1990 VOL. 4. NO. 1 PT.ANT MAHACagR'S MESSAGE By: J. Anand Although we had two safety incidents right after the seifety contest began, we have now gone thirty days without a recordable incident. I hope everyone is excited about it. The Key Person Safety Team is doing an. excellent job reminding everyone to be Scife. The next step is to go through September 7th without ein incident. The PIT presentations eire scheduled for August 29th with the MIXED YARN, LEADER 1, PLYMASTERS, SWAT and WEAVING WASTE teams peirticipating. The winners of this contest will go to Akron, Ohio, for a compainy wide competition on October 10 and 11. I can see the enthusiasm in these tecuns etnd look forward to some exciting presentations. Tire company sales axe still not rebounding and therefore our operations have to be curtailed by 1-2 days each month. We can make up this loss of profitability by continuing to work on waste reduction and quality improvements. We are starting to see the results of efforts in these areas. Let us keep up the good work. MEMTfflLY PRQDUCTIOW ¥OR JULY Pounds per Day Department* Reauired Actual Ply Twisting 150,000 143,629 Cable Twisting 150,000 144,000 T. C. Weaving 150,000 134,833 Industrial Weaving 4,000 3,337 Treating 165,000 155,759 Total Pounds Shipped for Month: 3,190,800 * Operating days vary by department. UASTE REFtHiT - JULY Actual % Objective % to Production to Production Twisting: Nylon .528 .722 Polyester .672 .908 Weaving: Nylon .706 .534 Polyester .614 .507 Treating: Nylon .541 .413 Polyester .151 .209 OUALITY SCOREBOARD - JULY Weaving Rerolls Generated Reweaving Rolls Generated Treated Rerolls Generated COWGKATUIATTCWS TO 0»R 1990 SOFTRAT.T. TKAM The Firestone Men's Softball Team finished the regular season taking 2nd place honors in the Gastonia Men's Industrial lA League. Coach Alford says, "Thanks to BOBBY QUEEN and RICHARD McGINNIS for acting as substitutes. We appreciate the support from other employees who came to cheer for us at the games. We had a good season £ind we'll be trying to bring home the first place trophy next year." RODNEY WALLACE CRAIG ROBERTS WAYNE MCALLISTER SCOTT STEVENS RONNIE PARKS PETE POWELL RICHARD HERSCHER PAUL PILGERE COACH JERRY ALFORD BUDDY RICHARDS JIMMY HAYNIE CARL McCLELLAN KEITH PETTIS CLIFF TAYLOR DAVID BOLIN HAL HAYES SatVICE AWARDS - AOGDSI MARGARET G. WHITAKER Department Years Service Weaving hO SAFETY NHK By: Bill Passmore Congratulations to all those safety conscious employees who worked the first 30 days of the contest without having an incident. By this time you have already received your hats or visors smd are working towards 50 incident free days and a meal. Our teams continue working to make our work environment as safe as possible. The Company/ Union team painted scotches yellow for #8 Treating Unit eind the Warehouse to make them more visible. All employees can pitch in and do things that will improve our plant safety and housekeeping program. Join us eind teike part in your safety teams. TWCTBigiT RATK July Y-T-D 1990 Objective Final Goal 9.3 7.9 4.0 0 Three people were injured requiring doctor visits. HdllSKKKKPniK HTan.TOTrS By: Fay Lewis amd Sara Carpenter We are very proud of the recent improvements made on the 4th floor, especially in the rest rooms and Ccinteen area. We appreciate this £ind trust that the other floors will receive these same types of improvements in the near future. It is not enough to just m£ike improvements; we must all pitch in, everyday, and do our part to maintain these improvements and to keep our areas deem cind accident free. Remember, we spend one- third of our lives at work, so let's work together to keep our workplace neat, safe cind pleaseuit. We deserve it! We would like to express our thcinks to all who worked on these projects with special appreciation to MARTY DUCKWORTH for his coordination efforts. How proud I cim to be the team leader of our Key Safety Person Team. Every Monday morning as your team meets, composed of GEORGE EURY, HAZEL HAYES, BARBARA SHANNON, ROGER BAKER, ROSIE BOONE £ind myself, we see things that are unsafe to be repaired. ThcUiks to all the fixers and the shop for their support. Our practice is when an employee comes to one of the Key Safety Persons with something unsafe, we get right to it eind also get back to the employee with an answer. Safety at Firestone is NUMBER ONE. We have come a long way but we also have a long way to go. If you ask me to overlook a single safety violation, that would be asking me to compromise my entire attitude toward the value of your life. Again, SAFETY IS NUMBER ONE! If in doubt, ask any Key S2ifety Person.
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