Farmside wins safety award

Wantage — Farmside Landscape & Design announced today it was recently awarded the Overall Silver Safety Achievement Award from the National Association of Landscape Professionals.
The award, part of NALP’s Safety Recognition Awards Program, honors those companies with thorough, high-performing safety programs that create and maintain safe work environments for their employees and clients in the lawn and landscape industry. It is designed to reward lawn and landscape companies that consistently demonstrate their commitment to safety.
Farmside Landscape was evaluated on number of accidents, number of days that employees were away from work, and number of employee injuries and illnesses. In addition, a checklist was used to rate the company’s compete safety program.
Miles Kuperus Jr, owner, commented “Safe work environments show our employees and clients that we care. We will continue to promote safe work habits by our employees on a daily basis because we recognize the importance of safety in the workplace. We are proud of our teams’ leadership and commitment to each other and the community we work in and around.”