Consultant Rick Gerlach recently presented a webinar, “TRSA’s New Safety & Health Certification” to give listeners an overview of a TRSA initiative that’s designed to help companies achieve excellence in incident prevention.

Gerlach, the principal of RG Consulting LLC and the retired senior director of safety and health at Cintas Corp., Mason, OH, discussed how TRSA member companies can benefit from the new program. Individual plants can earn this certification, which is modeled on the OSHA Voluntary Protection Program (VPP). In the process of pursuing TRSA’s certification, plant managers will find themselves in a strong position to seek VPP status ...