AGI, a leading packaging solutions provider, has scooped a prestigious international award from one of the world’s leading health and safety organisations. The British Safety Council’s International Safety Award 2009 was given to AGI’s special packaging plant in Slough, Berkshire, as recognition of the company’s outstanding safety procedures and working practices.

“We are extremely proud to have received this award for the third consecutive year,” says Tony Garnish, the President of AGI. “Health & Safety excellence plays an integral part in our daily and long-range operating decisions. As we develop our annual business and facility plans, we also set goals to achieve health & safety excellence. This award is a great acknowledgement of the commitment and efforts of the team in Slough.”

Julie Nerney, British Safety Council chief executive, says: “AGI has demonstrated that it places the health and safety of its workforce at the top of its priorities, this being the sixth year the company has achieved this prestigious award. […] Through its success, AGI is helping us to raise standards, spread good practice and reduce risks.”

The AGI facility in Slough serves DVD/Blu-ray, Games and Music markets in Europe by producing folding carton packaging and POP material.

Story filed 26.04.10