TAMKO Honored With Multiple Industry Safety Awards

National industry group, ARMA, presents TAMKO with 13 awards for company’s 2022 safety records.

The Asphalt Roofing Manufacturers Association (ARMA) has recognized TAMKO Building Products for its commitment to workplace safety with 13 prestigious awards for the company’s achievements in 2022. This includes the ARMA Perfect Employee Safety Certificate presented to six different TAMKO facilities and the Award of Excellence awarded to TAMKO’s Inwood, West Virginia facility for achieving a perfect safety score for three consecutive years.

“Safety is a top priority and essential to all we do at TAMKO,” said David Humphreys, TAMKO’s Chairman, President and CEO. “TAMKO’s safety message to all employees is simple: If it’s not safe, don’t do it. And, I’m proud of our employees’ continued efforts to put that message into practice every day.”

The ARMA Perfect Employee Safety Certificate is earned based on a location achieving a safety record of NO lost or restricted days AND no recordable OSHA incidents in 2022. The six TAMKO manufacturing facilities earning this award include a coatings plant in Green Cove Springs, Florida; an asphalt processing plant in Inwood; felt mills in Columbus, Kansas and Ennis, Texas; asphalt shingle facilities in Phillipsburg, Kansas and Dallas, Texas.

TAMKO’s Inwood facility has achieved the Perfect Employee Safety Certificate for a prestigious nine years, also earning the plant the Award of Excellence. 

The Facility Manager of TAMKO’s Inwood facility, Julie Weissenberger says success with safety has a lot to do with teamwork.

“Through unwavering teamwork and collective commitment, we have cultivated a culture of safety that propelled us to this prestigious award, a testament to the dedication and collaboration of every individual in our plant,” Weissenberger said.

ARMA also awarded the 2022 Certificate of Safety Improvement to six TAMKO facilities for reducing their ARMA Safety Index score by 25 percent or more at each facility over the previous year. Locations receiving this honor include the Columbus, Dallas, Green Cove Springs, Phillipsburg, Joplin, Missouri (High Street), and Tuscaloosa, Alabama facilities.

Safety has been a decades-long focus for TAMKO and the company has received more than 100 ARMA safety awards for various manufacturing facilities since 2007.  

About ARMA

The Asphalt Roofing Manufacturers Association is a trade association representing the majority of North America’s asphalt roofing manufacturing companies and their raw material suppliers, including almost 95 percent of the nation’s bituminous-based roofing products.

 About TAMKO

TAMKO Building Products LLC is a leading independent manufacturer of residential roofing shingles crafted with American pride for more than 75 years. At TAMKO, the popular Heritage® shingle series and Proline™ shingle series feature the best roofing colors on the market that are backed by a brand name recognized for its rich history, core values of honesty and integrity, quality products and processes, authority with building professionals and support for its community. For more information about TAMKO, visit our website at www.TAMKO.com.