{"id":75140,"date":"2021-09-15T07:00:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/?p=75140"},"modified":"2021-09-14T19:07:05","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T23:07:05","slug":"cargill-turkey-production-recertified-as-vpp-star-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/cargill-turkey-production-recertified-as-vpp-star-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Cargill Turkey Production Recertified As VPP Star Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RICHMOND, Va., Sept. 15, 2021 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) &#8212; The Cargill Turkey Production, LLC Harrisonburg Feed Mill in Harrisonburg, Virginia, has been recertified as a Virginia STAR Worksite under the Virginia Department of Labor and Industry\u2019s Virginia Occupational Safety and Health (VOSH) Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/20-1021-va-dept-labor-indus-696x522.jpg\" alt=\"Virginia Department of Labor and Industry\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-64835\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/20-1021-va-dept-labor-indus-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/20-1021-va-dept-labor-indus-696x522-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Cargill Turkey Production, LLC Harrisonburg Feed Mill is one of 36 current participants in the STAR program of public\/private sector worksites to achieve and retain this recognition. In 2004, the Cargill Harrisonburg Feed Mill was the first feed mill in the United States to be recognized as a VPP STAR site. The site has 25 employees and is part of Cargill\u2019s integrated poultry production operations in Virginia and West Virginia. The feed mill produces on average, 7,200 tons a week and 350,000 tons a year of bulk turkey feed for Cargill contracted turkey growers as well as chicken feed for growers filling contracts with George\u2019s Poultry Growing operations in the Shenandoah Valley.<\/p>\n<p>The Virginia VPP recognizes and promotes exceptional safety and health management systems for Virginia\u2019s employers in all industries. In VPP, the participant\u2019s management, workers, and VOSH establish a cooperative relationship that encourages continuous improvement in worksite safety performance.<\/p>\n<p>Acceptance into Virginia\u2019s VPP is confirmation and recognition that an employer has achieved safety and health excellence well above their industry peers.<\/p>\n<p>The VOSH VPP administers the Virginia STAR, Virginia Challenge, VADOC Challenge, Virginia BEST, and Virginia BUILT programs.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about this program or the other services we offer, visit our website at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.doli.virginia.gov\/voluntary-protection-program\/\">https:\/\/www.doli.virginia.gov\/voluntary-protection-program\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RICHMOND, Va., Sept. 15, 2021 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) &#8212; The Cargill Turkey Production, LLC Harrisonburg Feed Mill in Harrisonburg, Virginia, has been recertified as a Virginia STAR Worksite under the Virginia Department of Labor and Industry&#8217;s Virginia Occupational Safety and Health (VOSH) Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8597,"featured_media":64835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[227,425,12804,1],"tags":[16856,7661,14712,16857],"class_list":["post-75140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-virginia-news","category-agriculture-news","category-ap","category-business-news","tag-cargill-turkey-production","tag-food-processing","tag-virginia-star-worksite","tag-vosh-vpp","has-post-title","has-post-date","no-post-category","no-post-tag","no-post-comment","has-post-author"],"acf":[],"views":3755,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8597"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}