[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15423]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   CONGRATULATIONS TO GEORGETOWN MILL

  (Mr. Brown of South Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BROWN of South Carolina. Madam Speaker, I rise today to 
congratulate the International Paper Mill in Georgetown, South 
Carolina, for recently reaching a safety milestone of logging 4 million 
safe work hours without any employees missing work due to injuries 
sustained on the job.
  This is not an easy task with nearly 700 employees working at the 
paper mill daily, and it is obvious that the team in Georgetown has 
been working hard to develop new ways to proactively prevent accidents.
  ``Our goal is to leave work every day in the same or better condition 
than we arrived, for ourselves and for our families,'' said Debbie 
Feck, mill manager.
  Recently, employees at the mill implemented a new personalized safety 
process focusing on people acting, caring and thinking safely, or PACTS 
for short. They see this as a great way to focus on safety, but also 
realize that there is no single action that can create the ultimate 
safe environment, and everyone must work together to achieve this goal.
  Congratulations to the Georgetown Mill team. I speak for myself and 
everyone in the First District when I say we are proud of you and 
encourage the team to keep working toward those safety milestones.

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