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Congratulations to Our Award Winners!

Windemuller

Pete Crawford Safety Champion

Greg King

Safety Professional of the Year

Matt Hendrickson

Safety Partner of the Year

New Member

Delta Steel

Interested in becoming a member?

COSS Class

Join us for our next Certified Occupational Safety Specialist (COSS) training. COSS focuses on empowering employees to recognize, identify, and avoid hazards while on the job site.

COSS is an investment in your career. COSS will provide you with the knowledge needed to reduce fatalities, near misses, and OSHA citations.

Monthly Feature

Join our friends at Windemuller for an afternoon focused on strengthening the construction industry by supporting and advancing the women working in it. It’s a working conversation to listen, share perspectives, and leave with ideas you can put into practice on the jobsite and in the office.

Bonus: Women in Construction t-shirts for attendees while supplies last!

We are proud to announce a new partnership with the Align Center for Workforce Development in Southeast Michigan!

Through this partnership, GLSTC will now provide safety training courses in Southeast Michigan for the first time, expanding access to high-quality, industry-recognized safety training for local businesses, employees, and job seekers.

To get started, we're offering our first scheduled classes, which are grant-funded and free of charge to attend. Both classes will be held in Brooklyn, Michigan at Align Center North.

We’re proud to support workforce development across Southeast Michigan and help individuals gain the skills they need to work safely and confidently.

Call us today to register!

Stop by booth #702A at the Michigan Safety Conference!

Safety Resource

Distracted driving is a major cause of preventable crashes and includes three types: manual, visual, and cognitive. Manual distractions take your hands off the wheel, visual distractions take your eyes off the road, and cognitive distractions take your mind off driving. Texting is especially dangerous because it involves all three at once—hands, eyes, and attention are all diverted. Staying safe means keeping your hands on the wheel, eyes on the road, and mind fully focused on driving.

Member Spotlight

This month's member spotlight is Michigan Sugar Company.

Michigan Sugar Company traces its roots back to 1906, when several smaller companies merged their operations. In 2002, the company became a grower-owned cooperative, and in 2004 it merged with Monitor Sugar Company to form the Michigan Sugar Company that exists today. Headquartered in Bay City, the company operates sugarbeet processing facilities in Bay City, Caro, Croswell, and Sebewaing.

Michigan Sugar’s 865 grower-owners plant and harvest approximately 140,000 acres of sugarbeets each year across 17 to 20 counties in Michigan and Ontario, Canada. At its factories, the company processes these beets into about 1.3 billion pounds of sugar annually, which is sold to industrial, commercial, and retail customers under the Pioneer Sugar brand.

Guided by their mission of “Creating Growth & Opportunity” and their purpose of “Making Life Sweeter,” Michigan Sugar continues to play an important role in the region’s agricultural and manufacturing industries.

Safety is also central to their operations. As the company shares, “Safety is one of our company’s core values. The safety of our employees is our number one priority, which means a job done well is a job done safely.”

Upcoming Specialty Classes

Aerial Lift/Elevated Work Platform: Tuesday, April 21

^{Arc Flash Awareness: Tuesday, April 21 @ GLSTC}

^{Arc Flash Awareness: April 23rd @ CAM in Bloomfield Twp}

Fall Protection Authorized User: Thursday, April 16

HAZWOPER 40-Hour: Monday, April 20 - Friday, April 24