SAFETY FIRST: Thomas Blackinton, facilities and safety manager, checks in with Jean Bock, assembly worker, at AstroNova in West Warwick. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY
When companies of any size experience significant growth, there are always bumps in the road. For West Warwick's AstroNova, formerly known as Astro-Med Inc., one of those bumps came in the form of employee accident reports. "For years and years the company had a lot of long-tenure employees, and as we started to grow and…