At Morton Salt, Employee-Led VPP Team Is Just Part of the Journey

OAKLAND -- When Gilbert Aceves, a maintenance mechanic at Morton Salt in Long Beach and a member of the plant's safety committee, suggested to the committee that it ask management to give hourly responsibility for preparing the facility for Cal/VPP recertification, "they all looked at me like I was crazy," Aceves says.Now he is the site's Voluntary Protection Program coordinator and the employee-led committee is readying the plant for recertification, due in December.For Aceves, it was a way