John Zink Company, LLC
OVERVIEW & VALUE CREATION
John Zink has shaped its capabilities and strengths so we can provide comprehensive technical and business solutions. Through our core strengths – Value Creation, Expertise, Innovation and Operational Excellence, John Zink delivers a new era of technology vision enabling our customers to increase output and improve efficiency while preserving the environment.
Environmental Health & Safety
Excellence in Management
John Zink Company, LLC, strives for continuous improvement, especially in the environmental, health and safety (EH&S) performance of its operations.
John Zink Company has a goal: we call it our 10,000 percent goal - to seek 100 percent compliance, 100 percent of the time.
To meet this commitment, John Zink Company is guided by its unique business philosophy, Market Based Management. MBM is a value system and framework for action. It empowers employees to think like owners. MBM promotes integrity, protection of environment, and health and safety excellence. Its foundation is the commitment to add long-term value to the marketplace and society.
Because of this philosophy, John Zink Company has developed strong policies, principles and commitment statements. Together, these drive specific expectations for continuous improvement and performance excellence.
Accomplishments
EPA Performance Track
The EPA recognized John Zink Company as a top environmental performer and added the Tulsa-based company to its select group of National Environmental Performace Track Program participants. Zink is one of only about 300 firms to qualify for the program, which recognizes companies that voluntarily exceed compliance and regulation standards.
John Zink Company Earns ISO 14001 Certification
John Zink Company has earned International Organization for Standardization 14001 certification for its environmental management system. Certification, following review by a third party, confirms that Zink's system meets the requirements of the internationally recognized ISO 14001 Environmental Management System.
Zink's world-class management system focuses on managing operations to protect the health and safety of employees, customers, contractors, the public and the environment, and improving energy and resource use in its manufacturing and test center facilities.
"We are proud of John Zink's leadership position in attaining ISO 14001 Certification," said Stephen Pirnat, president and chief executive officer of John Zink Company. "Our ISO program complements Zink's commitment to develop and manufacture advanced pollution-control products and services that return economic value to our customers."
The ISO 14001 Certification was established to aid organizations that strive to achieve and demonstrate sound environmental performance by controlling the impact of activities, products or services on the environment. The international standards on environmental management are intended to provide organizations with the elements of an effective environmental management system, which can be integrated with other management requirements to achieve environmental and economic goals.
The ISO, a non-governmental organization established in 1947, is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies from more than 140 countries. The mission of ISO is to promote the development of standardization and related activities in the world with a view to facilitating the international exchange of goods and service, and to developing cooperation in the spheres of intellectual, scientific, technological and economic activity.
OHSAS 18001
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John Zink Company has received the Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series 18001. OHSAS 18001 is an independent accreditation for Zink's Safety Management System. OHSAS 18001 has been developed to be compatible with the ISO 9001 (Quality) and ISO 14001 (Environmental) management systems standards, in order to facilitate the integration of quality, environmental and occupational health and safety management systems.
ISO 9001:2000
John Zink Company has earned the international quality standard ISO 9001:2000 certification for its overall quality management system. The accredited international certification body, Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance Ltd., approved the certification confirming that John Zink's quality management system meets the requirements of the internationally recognized standard.
Lloyd's Register awarded the ISO 9001:2000 certification to John Zink after conducting an extensive audit of the company's quality management system specifically in the areas of manufacturing, order execution, contract acceptance, purchasing, vendor qualification, product development and quality control.
The ISO, a non-governmental organization established in 1947, is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies from more than 140 countries. The mission of ISO is to promote the development of standardization and related activities in the world with a view to facilitating the international exchange of goods and service, and to developing cooperation in the spheres of intellectual, scientific, technological and economic activity.
Star VPP
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has confirmed John Zink's STAR Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) certification after conducting a comprehensive review of the company's safety and health management systems.
The prestigious STAR VPP designation recognizes John Zink's outstanding efforts at developing and implementing systems to effectively identify, evaluate, prevent and control occupational hazards to prevent employee injuries and illnesses.
John Zink's three-year OSHA Total Case Incident Rate (TCIR) is 74 percent lower than the industry average; the company's three-year OSHA Days Away/Restricted/Transferred Cases (DART) rate is 92 percent lower than the industry average.
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