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“It’s Me, No, It’s You”
ID Card Sets It Straight,Protects Olin Employees,Property
It was a year ago this past October
that the present identification card
procedure was established at the
Pisgah Forest facility. According to
Fletcher Roberts, Director, Safety,
Loss Prevention and Services, the ID
Picture Card was one of several deci
sions in a package which stepped up
Olin’s in-plant security program.
Roberts explained that more than a
year was devoted to researching and
monitoring “how other plants in the
surrounding areas” were developing
and implementing similar programs
prior to Olin’s final decision to further
mature its own improvement and
create as little hardship and incon
venience to our employees as possible
in the process.
“A means needed to be established
to determine positive recognition of
employees. At one time, everyone
knew everyone,” Roberts said, “but
now our workforce is larger and turn
over-transfer rates occur more rapidly.
The ID Card has helped eliminate
people entering our gates who have
no business here,” he said.
Employees were the last group re
quiring positive ID. Visitors and con
tractors were the first.
“As areas change and become more
cosmopolitan, measures need to be
taken that will address the current
situation. We have a larger cross-
section of people working at Olin in
1980 than in 1940, so we adapted to
that situation," Roberts continued.
Today, gate passes with necessary
information are required for visitors
going to any portion of the Olin
property, and contractors are man
dated to sign in and out; therefore,
documentation of persons on the
property is established should it be
needed for reference.
The ID Card is an especially efficient
method in ascertaining true identifi
cation, and employees carry the card
to enter the film or paper gatehouse
entrances. Occasionally, an employee
may leave his/her card home. In that
case, a temporary ID can be issued by
a security guard. A lost ID has to be
replaced within 24 hours.
In the year that the employee ID
program has been used, it has proved
effective. “Our employees realize that
changes must take place in our chang
ing world and their cooperation has
made the ID program a success. The
ID card as well as our other means of
monitoring in-plant traffic are for
the safety of our people, and serves to
protect our company’s other assets,”
Roberts remarked.
Holiday Greetings!
Each year this time, an inner calm settles over the land. It starts at Thanksgiving,
peaks at Christmas and continues through New Year’s Day.
Commonly known as the Holiday Season, this time is eagerly anticipated and
enjoyed by people young and old. In this fast-paced, diverse world, it remains one
of the few things that most people commonly share.
It is the time of the year when basic goodness shines forth like a beacon light.
Good cheer and neighborliness abound. Quick tempers are silenced and tolerance
takes over.
Disputes are settled and rifts are mended in a spirit of amiable give and take,
with emphasis on giving.
A wondrous time, families reunite and front porch entrance lights burn in
invitation to friends and neighbors.
Adding to the season festivity are colored lights, evergreen trees, mistletoe and
holly, candy canes, gifts and Yule logs by the fire.
Enjoy the Holiday Season for it is only a short time that man acts the way God
intended him.
Merry Christmas,
Everybody!
Olin Medical Center Provides
More Than Just Emergency Care!
FLASHING IDs — Film Service workers show their ID Card to Gate
Guard Acie Waldrop upon entering the Film gate. The ID Card, in effectfor
a year now, is a security measure which protects Olin employees and the
Company’s assets. From left to right are Waldrop, Jacob Norman, William
Golden and Arthur Madison. Norman says he believes the ID system is a
well-directed one “because it keeps people out who shouldn’t be in here.”
If you think industrial medical
facilities treat company employees
who have suffered on-the-job acci
dents, you are partially correct. In
addition to primary treatment of occu
pational injuries and illnesses, Olin
Corporation's Pisgah Forest medical
facility provides an extensive array of
services from disability evaluation
examinations to special clinics forem-
ployees at the paper and film plants.
According to Dr. Albert 0. Ryan, Jr.,
Ecusta Paper and Film Group Medical
Director, the field of preventive
medicine includes public health, oc
cupational and aviational areas.
Industrial settings fall under occupa
tional medicine.
Before becoming an Olin employee,
a screening, which includes compre
hensive history and physical examina
tion, is performed. A chest x-ray, blood
counts, urinalysis, and other laboratory
work are included in the physical
examination. Every two years, the
health of each Olin employee is moni
tored through a medical examination.
Eight employees are scheduled daily
for purposes of maintaining atwo-year
schedule of monitoring employees.
Is the industrial medical facility
designed to treat employees once a
con-occupational health problem has
been discovered? “No,” Dr. Ryan
explained, “because then we would be
competing with the family practitioner.
We refer the employee to his or her
own family physician once we de
termine there is a problem."
While there have been several
special clinics in the past, a popular
one still in effect is the annual gyne
cology clinic. Dr. Ryan noted that
some 350 working women participate
in this clinic.
Emergency care is provided by the
medical facility for people who receive
on-the-job injuries. It is not often,
Dr. Irani Is New
Olin President
Dr. Ray Irani, former President of Olin’s Chemicals Group, is the new President
for Olin Corporation. Irani replaces John Henske who was recently elected Board
of Directors' Chairman and who will remain as Olin’s Chief Executive Officer
(CEO).
Irani, who holds a B.S. Degree in Chemistry, summa cum laude, and a Ph.D. in
Physical Chemistry, began his career with Olin in 1973 as the Chemicals
Group’s Vice President of Research and Development. After several promotional
appointments, he became Chemicals President in 1978.
Replacing Irani as Chemicals President is John Johnstone, coming to Olin in
1979 from Airco Alloys Division of Airco, Inc. where he was President.
In other announcements, James Towey, former Chairman of the Board will
stay on as a consultant to the company’s chief executive office until his March
1981 retirement. Also, Edward Lyons, Olin's Chief Financial and Administrative
Officer, was elected Vice-Chairman of the Board.
The announcement was made Thursday, September 25, at Corporate Head-
quarters in Stamford, Connecticut.
Dr. Ray Irani
however, that emergencies occur due
to a strict industrial safety program
on the plant site, and employees’ atti
tudes toward good safety practices.
Medical physicians and registered
nurses are on hand 24 hours a day.
An operating room, physical therapy
and x-ray equipment are ready for im
mediate use.
In the 1980 year, there have been
7,988 visits for occupational injuries
and illnesses, follow-up visits, and oc
cupationally-connected visits, most of
these being minor, according to Dr.
Ryan. Total medical department visits
in 1979 were 32,362.
In other areas, any employee who
has been out of work over three days is
required to be seen by on-site medical
personnel before returning to the job.
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