WILMINGTON, Mass., June 13, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- UniFirst (NYSE:UNF), an industry leader in the supply and
servicing of uniforms, workwear, and facility service products throughout the U.S. and Canada, has announced it is now offering
customers easy access to a comprehensive online library of over 350 safety training courses. Businesses can take advantage of these
competency-based and highly interactive online courses to help meet OSHA, HAZCOM, HR/occupational, environmental health and safety
(EHS), and other workplace training requirements.
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Presented in collaboration with SafetySkills, a leading provider of online compliance training and learning management, this
comprehensive training system can help customers bring new employees up to date quickly with OSHA and other compliance training
requirements, and offer existing employees refresher courses to help maintain company compliance and increase awareness of new,
evolving risks in the workplace.
“We hear from many of our customers that staying up to date with, and keeping required records for, safety training compliance
is becoming difficult to manage,” said Adam Soreff, director of marketing and communications at UniFirst. “UniFirst’s collaboration
with SafetySkills provides businesses and their employees easy online access to relevant safety and compliance courses to help
support successful training programs in a budget-friendly offering.”
Customers are able to access an easy-to-use online learning management system (LMS) via UniFirst’s corporate website to manage
employee training accessibility, monitor their participation and completions, and maintain important training records to help
minimize company liabilities. Content can be tailored to the needs of clients in both the public and private sectors, providing
efficient, effective methods to deliver quality safety education to their employees.
UniFirst also offers customers an automatic discount on all online safety and compliance training courses from SafetySkills when
they access the program at UniFirst.com/Safety.
About UniFirst
Headquartered in Wilmington, Mass., UniFirst Corporation (NYSE:UNF) is a North American leader in the supply and servicing of
uniform and workwear programs, as well as the delivery of facility service programs. Together with its subsidiaries, the company
also provides first aid and safety products, and manages specialized garment programs for the cleanroom and nuclear industries.
UniFirst manufactures its own branded workwear, protective clothing, and floorcare products, and with over 225 service locations,
275,000 customer locations, and 12,000 employee Team Partners, the company outfits more than 1.6 million workers each business day.
For more information, contact UniFirst at 800.455.7654 or visit www.unifirst.com.
About SafetySkills
Based in the USA, SafetySkills creates high-end online training products for environmental health & safety and human resources
education and regulatory compliance. SafetySkills develops our own products, including cutting-edge interactive courseware and an
enterprise-level, SCORM/AICC compliant learning management system. SafetySkills was created and is overseen by experts in safety
and environmental health. We have been training people on life-critical competencies for over twenty years, in eighteen countries,
in eight languages and over 50 subjects. We develop all of our training materials internally, utilizing a dedicated team of graphic
designers, web developers, project managers and customer service all under one roof. For more information, contact SafetySkills at
888-844-3549 or visit www.safetyskills.com.
Contact: Meghan Marcus PR/Communications Specialist UniFirst Corporation 68 Jonspin Rd. Wilmington, MA 01887 978.527.3974 Meghan_Marcus@unifirst.com
