Healthiest Employees: 2-149 Employees | #2. Epec Engineered Technologies
CEO (or equivalent): Ed McMahon
Number of employees: 85
New Bedford’s Epec Engineered Technologies may be the oldest U.S. printed circuit-board maker, which includes having manufactured circuit boards used on Apollo 11. But the more than 60-year-old company remains innovative, relevant and informed – including in its stance on employee health.
In those days of the first people landing on the moon, for example, dangers of smoking were not as evident as they are now. The extent of the risks was not completely known. Now, company CEO Ed McMahon encourages employees to participate in the company’s smoking-cessation program – giving cash rewards out of his own pocket – to quit cigarettes for good.
As healthy lungs are part of a better lifestyle, so are diet and exercise: Epec has fruit bowls throughout its facility for its 48 local employees, water coolers and a fitness center. It’s not unusual for work meetings to be held while participants are on treadmills, or to see walkers taking advantage of paths at lunchtime to get up and moving.
A healthy thought:
‘Executives have been known to take meetings on treadmills and walk the building’s paths at lunch.’
Danielle Correia, Marketing coordinator, Epec Engineered Technologies
