The company also has operating facilities in Wausau, Oshkosh, LaCrosse, Cottage Grove and Milwaukee employing 447 employees at its Wisconsin facilities. Hydrite's employees are responsible for the safe handling, storage, transportation, processing and manufacture of a wide variety of hazardous materials on a daily basis. Hydrite performs the vast majority of its safety and health training with internal technical and supervisory staff. Hydrite's training manual contains over 30 scripted safety and health training modules complete with competency tests, educational films and associated operating procedures. All new employees at Hydrite spend their first three days in safety training.
Training is conducted in classrooms, on the floor, and as self-study with supervisory insight.
Since 1995, Hydrite has experienced a 65 percent decline in its number of worker's compensation claims. Hydrite is very proud of the development and performance of facility-specific management teams and supervisors with respect to the integration of safety into daily activities and operating procedures. The company's safety culture is alive and growing through its employees.