Marcus Paint Company earns national attention by receiving the 2025 National Safety Award of Excellence.
The ACA, better known as the American Coatings Association, is the national trade organization that represents coatings and paint manufacturers. They help set standards and best practices, all while lobbying on behalf of the industry’s best interests. They help promote safety and help shape policies for safe work operations and conditions.
The ACA Award of Excellence is a national award given to manufacturers of paints and or coatings that exhibit long-term measurable safety performance based on verifiable OSHA Statistics. The ACA has three levels with the Safety Awards:
- The Award of Excellence (Highest) – 5 years with zero fatalities + zero lost workdays.
- Award of Honor – one year with zero fatalities + zero lost workdays.
- Award of Commendation – one year with zero fatalities + no “Days away from work” cases.
This achievement and national recognition are not only rightly earned, but fewer than a dozen facilities received this honor nationwide. For context, the coatings industry is a $200+ billion global market, and this benchmark shows Marcus Paint Company is among the safest in the world. National Safety Day is approaching, April 28th, and what better way to celebrate than by securing a nationally recognized title for safety.
Marcus Paint Company puts safety at the forefront of everything it does. From our rigorous 6s framework to having quality and always improving training initiatives, we hold each other accountable for ensuring safety. MPC uses the 5s framework, and adds another S. The 6th S is about emphasizing safety, and authorizes everyone to warden change, and visibility to ever-changing safety concerns. The phrase “See Something, Say Something” is used a lot around our facility- and we mean it. It is more than a slogan; it is an expectation that emphasizes that every employee plays an important role in maintaining a safe working environment. Our safety is paramount approach highlights why MPC is recognized by the ACA, and why our most recent 1,715 days without a reportable incident matter.
MPC takes a proactive approach to training and applies the knowledge of everyone’s experience as a collective. We do not use “minimum requirements” as a benchmark, and everyone receives cross-departmental training on all the hazards or challenges in our workplace. This ensures all employees are aware not only of the hazards they face, but also of the hazards their fellow employees may face. Applying this to our 6s framework, all employees apply their training through a lens of safety that looks out for their fellow employees.
Safety at Marcus Paint Company does not happen by accident; it happens because it is part of our culture, and it happens because everyone is looking out for one another day in and day out. Our level of attention to detail, and our passion behind what we do mean we bring our A-game with us everywhere we go. Our safety extends to our customers and our partners as we bring the lessons we have learned with us, and help apply them to make our industry safer. We want to see everyone go home at the end of the day to be with their families and loved ones, and that is what Marcus Paint Company is all about.