July 25, 2008—Wyeth Pharmaceuticals’ Pearl River, NY, research and manufacturing facility on July 21 became the 2,000th worksite in the US to be recognized in the elite Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP) of the US Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The facility achieved a VPP Star, the program’s highest level of achievement.
The Pearl River facility, with more than 3,200 employees, is the eighth Wyeth worksite to achieve VPP star status. Wyeth received this recognition after OSHA conducted a thorough onsite review of the facility, and determined its safety and health systems to be exemplary. Additionally, its injury and illness rates were well below the industry average.
The VPP is a merit-based program that recognizes those exemplary worksites where employees and management work together continuously and effectively to minimize hazards, reduce injuries and illnesses, and enhance safety and health. VPP participants include private and public sector employers.
