Public Health

Internship
Environmental Health and Safety Intern at Berry
Global
Summer Scott
 About Berry Global
History

Imperial Became
Plastics Berry
Began Plastics
1967 Cigar Factory, Evansville, 1987 Berry Global logo
IN, 1972

1972 2017
Moved to Became
a former Berry
Robert Morris, former grain cigar Berry Plastics logo Global
operator and owner
factory
About Berry Global
Locations

• 265+ facilities • 100,000+ product solutions

• 46,000+ employees • 18,000 customers
 About Berry Global
What does Berry do?
Plastic packaging manufacturer and marketer.

Markets— Products–
• Beauty & personal care: Dispensers, wipe solutions, bottles & vials
• Building & construction: Building materials, containers, tapes
• Food: Caps & closures, jars, bags & bulk bags
• Healthcare: Wipes solutions, medical devices, apparel
• Hygiene: Films & laminates, nonwovens & components
• Specialty/other: Tapes & adhesives, bottles & vials
About Berry Global
Mission & Values
• Mission: “Our mission is always advancing to improve the way we work,
to develop our team members for their personal growth and for the future
needs of our customers, to deliver the most innovative solutions in the
market, and to enhance the communities in which we live and work.”

• Values: Safety- “Our number one value. We relentlessly pursue safety in

all we do. We maintain high standards to ensure our facilities are safe and
environmentally conscious.”

• Customer Promise: “Our customers inspire our actions, investments,

support and solutions everyday to deliver global capabilities, innovation
expertise, and sustainability leadership.”
About Berry Global
Employee Health & Safety

“With safety as our number one core value, we

believe that when it comes to our personal safety
and the safety of our teammates, our best should
always be our standard.”

• Safety #1 priority always

EHS Principles
• Berry Washington hit 1 year accident free!
o Celebration to thank employees

Accident Free Celebration

Project
• Transfer current safety program into GDC (Global Data Center) for
electronic training and C-Pro (Compliant Pro) for document control.

• Update New Hire Orientation Training PowerPoint

o Create a Human Resources PowerPoint

• Create promotional materials for Summer Safety Program

o Create promotional materials for other various topics

• Create an Environmental Health & Safety Training Manual

• Updated and moved current EHS files into a uniformed system

 Safety Program
Document Control
• Purpose: allows employee access to
important documents.

• Controlled document is complete and

accurate.
Ex. Program in C-Pro with
• Identifiers used: Program, JSA, SWP, document control
Trainings, and EHS

Ex. Search using the

identifiers
New Hire Orientation Training PPT
• Safety orientation for new employees
o 2 days
o 20+ trainings
• Updated the information, font, wording, pictures, and anything that was
out of date.
• Human Resources Presentation

Training in the New Hire

Orientation
 Safety Program
Trainings
• Updated the trainings on the New Hire
Orientation PowerPoint.
o Quiz and Answer Sheet
• Assigned dates to be taken

Quiz/Answer sheet

Training Portal in GDC

Promotional Materials
Summer Safety Program
• Summer Safety Program: encourages employees to work safely
o June: Heat Stress
o July: Hand Safety
o August: D.A.R.T.

Ex. June Summer Safety Summer Safety Challenge

Poster
Promotional Materials
Miscellaneous Topics
• Berry Safety Absolutes: core safety beliefs that employees are required to
follow, without exception.
• Displayed in training and break rooms as reminders

Berry Safety Absolutes

Flyers
 Safety Training Manual
• Table of contents, 23 trainings, appendix

Title page, TOC, and

format
Organizing EHS Files
• Over 20 years worth of EHS files
• Organized into 5 sections: Environmental, General, OSHA, Safety, and
Training
• Site File Index

New EHS file folder

Ex. Site File Index

Public Health Concepts
Environmental Health & Safety

• Promotes human health and well-being

• Healthy and safe communities

• Preventing infectious diseases

• Injury prevention

• Relationships between people and their

environment
Impact
Things learned:
• Interworking's of a plant and how the products are made.
• Stronger skills with Microsoft, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• Health promotion

My Impact:
• Creation of a uniformed safety program
• Trainings

• Final thoughts
Sources

• About us: Rigid & flexible plastic manufacturer: Berry Global Inc. Rigid
& Flexible Plastic Manufacturer| Berry Global Inc. (n.d.).
https://www.berryglobal.com/en/about-us.
• Safe working conditions for employees: EHS principles. Safe Working
Conditions for Employees |EHS Principles. (n.d.).
https://www.berryglobal.com/en/sustainability/sustainability-strategy/w
ork-environment
.