Month: November 2023

2024 Winter Conference Preview

Author: Jim Kitchens

The 2024 USA Member & Supplier-Partner Winter Conference is just weeks away!  We’ll be in historic and beautiful Charleston, SC for our 21st Annual Winter Conference, where we’ll feature an outstanding agenda loaded with engaging speakers and relevant content! The Conference will also include meetings of the USA Advanced Remote Monitoring (ARM), Procurement Engineering, Site...

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Training Project Update

Author: Alexander McGalliard

Training efforts over the last 18 months have involved dealing with substantial change while undergoing detailed reviews by INPO for accreditation renewal. Three of our stations will have remote board reviews in the last two months of 2023. Looking ahead for 2024, we are building our self-assessment schedule which will include new efforts under the...

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IdeaScale Innovation Project Update

Author: Alexander McGalliard

We launched the USA Innovation Hub in July with a campaign to prioritize the most important issues facing our plants and industry. The turnout was excellent with many good comments and useful suggestions. In September, the USA Innovation Hub hosted the first fleet wide campaign looking for solutions to the problems of Knowledge Transfer, Retention...

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Executive Spotlight – November 2023

Author: USA Communication

As we rapidly approach year’s end and bid adieu to 2023, perhaps the time is right to take a moment and reflect upon our accomplishments and also look ahead to the coming new year. From a financial perspective, we are finishing 2023 with a very solid balance sheet with revenues and member rebates exceeding anything...

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Cook Plant Security Team Celebrates Five Years of Injury-Free Work

Author: USA Communication

The Security Officers at Cook Plant have a reason to be proud. They have achieved a remarkable milestone of five years without an OSHA recordable injury. This means that none of the officers have suffered any work-related injury or illness that required medical treatment beyond first aid. The milestone was reached on October 22, 2023, and it represents...

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