To the average visitor, some of the safety precautions taken at a meat processing facility are obvious; such has hard hats or steel-toed boots. Look a little closer and you’ll find the mesh gloves and the arm guards, protecting against the slip of a sharp knife – important on a meat cutting room floor.
But other systems aren’t so obvious. Worker attendance incentive programs, accident-free awards programs, and especially employee stock ownership options are the key reasons why lamb processor Superior Farms enjoys one of the lowest rates of illness or injury in the United States.