Cintas Corporation (NASDAQ: CTAS) announced today that its uniform
rental facility in Portsmouth, VA has received Voluntary Protection
Program (VPP) Star certification from the Virginia Occupational Safety
and Health Administration (OSHA). The VPP Star certification is OSHA’s
highest recognition for the practice of and commitment to exemplary
occupational safety and health.
The Cintas uniform rental facility in Portsmouth is the ninth rental
facility and the 12th companywide to receive Star
designation. The facility’s 150 employee-partners, along with
representatives from OSHA and community leaders, celebrated the honor
with a flag raising ceremony and luncheon held at the facility in
Portsmouth.
“It’s a great day when companies make it a part of their corporate
culture to embrace safety and health in the workplace,” said Courtney
Malveaux, commissioner of the Virginia Department of Labor and Industry.
“To achieve VPP, safety must not only be top-down but bottom-up. Through
the dedication and hard work of its management and employees, Cintas’
Portsmouth location has demonstrated leadership in the area of
occupational safety and health.”
Cintas’ Portsmouth facility first began the VPP process in October of
2011. The designation required successful completion of a strict and
rigorous audit and collaboration between all levels of management and
employee-partners in order to create an environment of continuous safety
improvement. With this distinction, Cintas Corporation in Portsmouth, VA
becomes the 59th business in the Commonwealth of Virginia to
receive the elite VPP “Star” status.
“The painstaking hard work of this group has not gone unnoticed—they
have come further than we could have ever imagined when it came to
safety excellence,” said Tim Jones, Group Vice President of the
MidAtlantic Group, Cintas. “In the coming days, months or years,
partners who want to recognize all they have achieved can look up to the
flag waving outside this facility. However, if we want to honor all
that’s gone into making this achievement reality, we should never take
for granted the safety and well being of the people in this room today.”
Cintas Corporation has approximately 400 facilities throughout the world
actively pursuing VPP recognition by OSHA or the equivalent under a
similar certifying body. This includes operations in the U.S., Canada,
the United Kingdom, Mexico and Honduras.
About Cintas
Headquartered in Cincinnati, Cintas Corporation provides highly
specialized services to businesses of all types primarily throughout
North America. Cintas designs, manufactures and implements corporate
identity uniform programs, and provides entrance mats, restroom
supplies, tile and carpet cleaning, promotional products, first aid,
safety, fire protection products and services and document management
services for more than 1 million businesses. Cintas is a publicly held
company traded over the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol
CTAS, and is a component of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index.
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