HOW STRETCH PAYS

 

 

PORT TOWNSEND PAPER CORPORATION

MAINTENANCE PAID LOSSSES,

Sprains and Strains COMPARED with PARTICIPATION in

ENERGY STRETCH    100 WORKERS

 

Cost data courtesy Eberle Vivian and Richard Marshall

87%

Savings
 

 

 

ABOVE: MAINTENANCE GRAPHS show an 87% savings in sprain and strain costs in 2000, when 95% of maintenance personnel participated in the stretch program. 

 

BELOW: GRAPH shows effect of STRETCH being curtailed from BAGPLANT in 1998 and resumed in 1999.  

 

 

PORT TOWNSEND PAPER CORPORATION

COST PER MAN HOUR OF INJURY

ALL MILL: 450 WORKERS

 

BELOW: GRAPH shows number of ACTUAL DAYS LOST in BAGPLANT at Port Townsend Paper Corporation from 1995 to 1999, WITH AND WITHOUT STRETCH.  

 

 

PORT TOWNSEND PAPER CORPORATION

BAGPLANT DAYS LOST, Sprains and Strains from 1995 to 1999 100 WORKERS
 
 


Text Box: Stretch CurtailedText Box: Stretch under wayText Box: Stretch resumed

Note:  Stretch Program was begun in Dec. 1996 and curtailed by new management in Dec. 1997.  At the end of 1998, when days lost from sprains and strains shot up to 711, another change in management reinstated stretch program, with resultant cost savings.
 

Cost of Stretch Program, 1999: $5,000
 

Estimated Cost Savings in 1999 with Stretch: $323,520:

95%
 

Estimated Cost of a Day Lost (direct & indirect): $480
 

Results from

Program
 

Number of Actual Days Lost

 
 
Text Box: Before stretchText Box: Before stretch

 

   

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