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So Sparks Won’t Fly: Logoplaste Invests in Electrical Safety Training for Employees

About

Established in 1976, Logoplaste manufactures rigid plastic packaging for essential products in 17 countries on three continents. With a location in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Logoplaste is committed to shaping a better world through mindful packaging solutions. Logoplaste’s wall-to-wall embedded manufacturing model has proven itself as a smarter way of doing business that benefits its customers around the world. Its plants double as flourishing idea labs that are lowering CO2 emissions, ending packaging waste and making the world a better place.

 

Logoplaste’s employees are experts in manufacturing sustainable rigid plastic packaging through embedded, just-in-time supply chains. Its wall-to-wall methods have always eliminated the need for secondary packaging and the logistics associated with transporting empty bottles. Today, Logoplaste is using its expertise to help its clients and the industry recover used plastic packaging, transform it into new feedstock and manufacture new bottles from old ones – all in a sustainable, closed-loop system.

The Challenge

Logoplaste is just as dedicated to workplace and employee safety as it is to its sustainability commitments. As such, the manufacturer was interested in training employees in NFPA 70E – the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) standard for Electrical Safety Requirements for Employee Workplaces (NFPA 70E). Logoplaste chose to partner with NEPIRC, part of the Pennsylvania MEP and the MEP National Network, to deliver this training since the manufacturer has experienced excellent results from previously working with the NEPIRC team.

NEPIRC has always been very friendly and attentive to our needs. Our NEPIRC business advisor is also very knowledgeable about the manufacturing industry and thorough when coordinating all our engagements and trainings.
— Marc Kornova, Plant Manager

MEP's Role

NEPIRC’s Authorized OSHA Outreach Trainer facilitated the NFPA 70E training program, which covered topics like NFPA 70E requirements; building an effective safety culture; causes of incidents and injuries; relationship of regulations, codes and standards; hazard boundaries; personal protective equipment; electrical program overview; defining those at risk of electrical injuries; electrical hazard exposures like fire, shock, arc flash and arc blast; job plans; contractor coordination; and preparation for work. Participants also learned shock and arc flash hazards and protections. This training was essential for any Logoplaste employee who works with electrical equipment or systems.

Created January 15, 2025