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Annual Safety Meetings
Oct 30, 2017 | by Lisa Schaefer
On October 19th and 26th Long Painting Company offices in Vancouver and Kent, Washington held their Annual Safety Meetings.
Dan Roush, The Director of Environmental Health & Safety kicked off both meetings. He indicated to the crowd, that this is one of the safest companies he has ever worked for. Safety Awards were also presented to employees who worked safely and were injury free.
President, John Fisher addressed employees by letting them know to go “Back to the Basics”. He stressed how important it is to focus on the following:
- Solid Estimates and Job Packages
- Creating a Well-Executed Plan
- Pay Attention to Safe Means and Methods
- Have an Efficient Process
- Focus on Attention to Quality of Work and Getting it Right the First Time
- Project Management Must be Engaged
He also asked employees to not be afraid to share ideas; if they know of better ways to do something, share it.
Service Awards and certificates were presented to the following employees for their dedicated service to Long Painting Company:
President, John Fisher was presented a special award for serving 30 YEARS!
20 Years
Sean Craig, Project Manager
Dede Hungerford, Administrative Assistant
Rich Jendrick, Commercial Superintendent
15 Years
Timothy Johnson, Commercial Foreman
Chris Laduke, Industrial Foreman
Fekadu Weldemichael, Commercial Journeyman
10 Years
Brad Cassidy, Commercial Estimator
Larry Goebel, Industrial Foreman
Brian Nelson, Commercial Journeyman
Brian Valek, Industrial Foreman
5 Years
Samuel Cano, Commercial Journeyman
Matt Champion, Industrial Foreman
Mitch Doney, Industrial Foreman
Jarrad Hackman, Industrial Foreman
Kyle Hockert, Project Manager
Shaun Holowati, Industrial Foreman
Binh Nguyen, Commercial Painter
Hank Otto, Industrial Foreman
Ivan Parra, Commercial Foreman
Kurt Ribail, Industrial Foreman
Tony Rivera, Service Center Mechanic
Maurilio Venegas, Commercial Foreman
A few of the raffle prize winners were:
Sherwin Williams Gift Cards
- Beau Bendel
- Mario Castaneda
- Isaac Edgar
- Erik McCanna
- Musa Nsegumire
- Morgan Peterson
- Tony Rivera
- Rick Santos
- Anthony Schmidt
- Warren Singleton
- Rich Smokovich
- Chris Trousdale
I-Fly Gift Cards
- Aaron Thompson
Painter Grips
- Jermie Ali
- Brad Cassidy – He handed his set to Journeyman, Fekadu Weldemichael
- Jody Day- Graciously gave his to Apprentice, Jose Castellanos
- Dede Hungerford – Offered her set to Apprentice, David Lepesha
- Joseph Langley- Passed his winnings on to Journeymen, Yousseff Hakoum
- Peter Mubiru
- Nguyen Tran
Redwing Boots Gift Card
- Ryan Cramer- Kindly gave his gift card to Apprentice, Chris Hoss
- Doug Hungerford
- Freddy Mendoza
- Kris McCuen
LPC Swag Bag
- Kari Bracken
- Mike Ford
- Tam Samara
- CJ Schwab