For the third year in a row, the Charlotte Business Journal recognized Domtar as one of the Healthiest Employer Award winners in the Greater Charlotte area.

This award recognizes Domtar’s overall employee well-being programs, which work to provide our employees resources through education and activities that support healthy lifestyles, including our robust well-being platform, health assessment tools, digital health coaching, employee challenges, activity tracking, mental health support, financial wellness webinars and much more.

This award symbolizes Domtar’s continuous work in addressing needs and resources for our employees’ physical, financial and mental health, as well as our continued commitment to our employees’ well-being.

Three Domtar facilities were among a group of nearly 150 South Carolina-based companies recognized for outstanding workplace safety at the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce’s annual safety awards ceremony.

The Marlboro Mill, Tatum Converting Center and Rock Hill Converting Center each received the award based on their low lost workday case rate during the calendar year.

In 2021, Domtar continued to achieve meaningful safety milestones. Our Dryden Mill and offsite network of eight converting facilities achieved one year of safe operations without a recordable injury. These accomplishments come on the heels of the Marlboro Mill achieving one-year incident free in April 2021 and the Ashdown Mill setting its own record of 546 days without a recordable injury.

These latest milestones were capped with news of the Dryden and Windsor mills being named among Pulp & Paper Canada’s 2020 safest mills in Canada in their category.

The Kamloops and Dryden mills each received awards recognizing progress in improving safety performance over the past three years as measured by OSHA metrics. The Kamloops Mill received the award for largest reduction in total frequency rate since 2017, while the Dryden Mill was recognized for its reduction in lost time frequency rate during the same period.

Domtar Memorial Safety Awards

The Windsor Mill received the Tom Detwiler memorial award in honor of the long-time Johnsonburg employee that worked his entire career at the mill, eventually becoming mill manager. The Windsor Mill received the award for having the best sustained performance in both total frequency rate and lost time frequency rate combined over the three previous years.

Finally, the Ashdown Mill's project related to confined space was selected to receive the first ever memorial safety award in remembrance of Marty Barfield, a 30-plus year employee who held numerous roles with Domtar and its legacy companies, including Domtar safety director and Kingsport Mill manager.

The award will be given annually to the Domtar site that has completed a project that results in the most impactful reduction in the potential for serious life altering injuries.

"These safety awards are important to our people, and help motivate the adoption of better practices for sustaining safe performance,” says Larry Warren, senior director of health and safety. "Tragically, two contractors working at the Windsor Mill as part of a scheduled maintenance outage in 2021 died in an accident on Oct. 26. This tragic incident remains a compelling reminder that the safety of every person in a Domtar facility is our top priority."

Warren added, “The caring passion, energy, and dedication of our teams is very much appreciated in a time of public health crisis and stressful surroundings. Our people have put extraordinary efforts into working safely and staying healthy, which speaks to our broader commitment to safety and individual diligence in caring for one another.”