City safety efforts earn SHARP acclaim – and maybe lower costs

A years-long effort to make it safer to work for the city of Keizer safer culminated in a rare designation for City Hall recently.

The city successfully recently completed a special state program aimed at driving down workplace injuries.

No other city in Oregon has done so, graduating from SHARP – the Safety and Health Achievement Recognition Program managed by Oregon OSHA.

The result, according to an OSHA press release, is lower injury and illness…