date:Aug 21, 2014
y, the council added.
The poultry industry has made substantial progress in improving employee safety, the Council said. The poultry processing illness and injury rate for 2012 was 4.9 cases per 100 full-time workers (per year), down from 5.8 in 2011, the Council reported. Also, the total recordable poultry processing illness and injury rate declined 78 percent from 1994, the oldest data available on the Bureau of Labor Statistics website.
The Joint Industry Safety and Health Council consist o