/./ o No plant accident in a million hours ju&j >Wv^//& Procter-Gamble workers donate safety prizes to city charities BY JACK EVANS Staff Reporter Three city charities received $1,000 each Thursday thanks to employees of Procter and Gamble. The presentations were made in conjunction with a ceremony at the plant marking one million hours without a time-loss industrial accident. In lieu of a gift for each employee from the company in recognition of the safety record, a majority of workers voted instead to have the company use the funds for charities. Receiving cheques for $1,000 each were Kathie Dawson, an employee at the plant, on behalf of the Canadian Liver Foundation; Carolyn Brooks, on behalf of the Heart and Stroke Foundation and Jamie Trudeau, for the Belleville branch, Canadian Cancer Society. The occasion brought praise from Mayor George Zegouras - both for the workers generosity and their safety record. Zegouras, along with plant manager Peter Cushing, industrial relations and safety officer Janet Clifford Brown and Nick Price, safety technician, helped to raise a safety flag to mark the occasion. Both Cushing and Brown said that "It is not just something from safety at the plant involves an inten- mangement, but an effort by every sive program with involvement by all single employee," said Cushing. With approximately 560 employees, employees through a network of safe- it took the disposable diaper plant ty committees and team safety co- about one year to achieve the safety ordinators. record. Left to right are three happy recipients of donations to charities, courtesy the employees of Belleville's Procter and Gamble plant. They are Carolyn Brooks, Heart and StroKe; Jamie Trudeau, Cancer Society and Kathie Dawson, Liver Foundation. (Staff Photo)