A Hazard Assessment and Application of Loss Control at Jerome Foods Incorporated - Barron, Wisconsin

Abstract

Jerome Foods Incorporated is part of the meat and meat products industry. The total corporation employs 680 people , while the processing plant in Barron, Wisconsin employs up to 450 people and produces 50,000,000 pounds of processed turkey each year. It is to this particular installation that attention will be focused. The objective will be to identify the physical hazards and the hazardous situations that may cause harm to the employees. Having identified a hazard, suggestions will be presented on implementing a control or elimination of t he hazard. These abatement suggestions cannot stand alone in an investigation. Other alternatives would certainly exist. The suggestions are t hose of the author, biased by his training as a safety coordinator and tempered by economic limitations. The actual implementation will be at the discretion of Jerome Foods Incorporated and will not be included in this study.