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Newport
News employee Michael Williams has been awarded the 2002 Safety & Health
Achievement Award by the Voluntary Protection Programs Participants'
Association (VPPPA) for his outstanding health and safety activities, which
include creating colorful posters to serve as safety reminders throughout the
Welding Services repair shops.
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Michael
Williams, a 23-year employee of Newport News, is pictured working on a machine
used for welding.
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NEWPORT NEWS, Va.— Sept. 25, 2002 - Northrop
Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) announced today that its Newport News sector
received two awards from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
The Newport News sector was recognized as the largest Voluntary Protection
Program (VPP) STAR site. The VPP, administered by OSHA and the Department of
Energy, is a cooperative effort among labor, management and government. OSHA
awards the STAR only to those companies with comprehensive, successful safety
and health programs that are in the forefront of employee protection and
demonstrate continuous improvement. Newport News first became a STAR site in
1995, and was re-certified at the prestigious STAR level in 2000.
Michael Williams, a 23-year employee of Newport News who works with the
Welding Services group, has been awarded the 2002 Safety & Health
Achievement Award by the Voluntary Protection Programs Participants' Association
(VPPPA) for his outstanding health and safety activities. Williams was one of
only two people in the country to receive this award.
The VPPPA Safety & Health Achievement Award Program is an opportunity for
hourly employees to be recognized for their knowledge on health and safety
issues and for their VPP outreach efforts within their worksite and community.
Candidates for this award spend less than 25 percent of their time on organized
safety programs and initiatives and are not safety and health professionals.
Williams, a resident of Newport News, is a key member of Welding
Service's Safety Team. In this role, he works to continuously improve the safety
of employees throughout his department. He served as team leader on his
department's Safety Training Team and developed and presented an annual safety
training program to hundreds of employees and their supervisors. In his
community, he has been active in Earth Day service and the Juvenile Diabetes
Foundation.
Northrop Grumman Newport News, headquartered in Newport News, Va., is the
nation's sole designer, builder and refueler of nuclear-powered aircraft
carriers and one of only two companies capable of designing and building nuclear
powered submarines. Newport News also provides after-market services for a wide
array of naval and commercial vessels, and has the capability to design, build
and maintain every class of ship in the U.S. Navy's fleet. The Newport News
sector employs about 18,000 people.
CONTACT: Jerri Fuller Dickseski
Northrop Grumman Newport News
(757) 380-2341
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