The Tennessee Department of Labor & Workforce Development and Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health Administration recognized Bridgestone Americas’ Warren County, Tenn., plant with its Volunteer STAR (Safety Through Accountability and Recognition) award.
 
The Volunteer STAR is patterned after the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) and recognizes the best of the best in the area of safety and health programming and performance.
 
This is the fourth consecutive time the Warren County plant has received the award, the first time being in 1997. Facilities must be recertified every three to four years.
 
Bridgestone said the Warren County plant is one of only three tire manufacturing facilities in the U.S. that is certified as an OSHA VPP Star site. The other two plants also happen to be Bridgestone sites – in Aiken County, S.C., and Bloomington, Ill.