Sheptor Calls for Highest Industry Safety Standards
isc | May 17, 2010
In his keynote address at the opening session of the 2010 Sugar Industry Technologists conference meeting in Savannah, Imperial Sugar Company President and CEO John C. Sheptor issued a call for immediate action within the sugar industry worldwide to create the highest degree of safety standards and to share all safety data among companies.
2010 S.I.T. Conference in Savannah, Ga.
Sheptor called for national and international combustible dust standards in the handling of sugar during all steps in the process, from shipping to manufacturing, and proposed an international laboratory facility to set best practices for collection of data in the sugar industry.
He asked S.I.T. or Sugar Industry Technologists, Inc., to create a permanent safety committee within the organization to oversee development of standards that exceed those imposed by any government or regulatory agency.
Sheptor told the record audience of nearly 200 participants that the safety of workers in the handling and processing of sugar is paramount and ahead of other corporate agendas.
