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Nurses beware…no support and huge liability issues. - Occupational Health Nurse International Paper Employee Review

1.0
May 31, 2024
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Pros

Loved most of the employees and felt appreciated by the hourly workers.

Cons

Administration views the OHN as a requirement to fulfill OSHA standard. Pressure is placed on the OHN to keep injuries from becoming recordable. Liability risk for the Nurse is huge. Expected to be on call 24/7 for injuries but pay is salary with no call pay or overtime. Some mills obviously are worse than others but many of them had similar experiences. No clinical oversight so the RN is the highest licensed provider onsite. And many of the mills only have one RN per 400+ employees. Some mills contract basic EMT’s for security positions and they can respond to emergencies along with the Nurse but they do not have any regular duties to lighten the load on daily operations in the Occ Health Department.

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5.0
Dec 11, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Great co-workers/environment Easy work for outstanding pay Great schedule that is set for a year and allows 1 full week off every 4 weeks.

Cons

Can be extremely dirty. A bad day with plugs can be very physically demanding.

1.0
Jun 10, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Benefits were fairly decent when I was there. PTO was pretty generous. Pay was decent enough, along with a Bonus at certain pay levels. Many of the people I worked with there were outstanding - although, most of them are gone now. They did retain a few subject matter experts, most have left or leaving - but I guess it's a possible pro they might not cut your entire department..

Cons

The Cons are the new 'wonder boy' CEO. This puts most of the 'Pros' here on shaky ground. The new CEO - Andy Silvernail, is a ruthless cost cutter. I would expect as/if the stock continues to drop - other benefits, people, or pay will be gouged - like they did the entire IT department. Andy was making big stock promises when he started up, but it was clear from the start, his only concern was the stock price. I still talk to some people they did retain or forced over ("rebadged" - such a terribly soulless word for it) to the new MSP. Every single one of them is at their wit's end. They are hemorrhaging what's left of IT in the company and all of the deep knowledge with them. It WAS a great place to work - now they report working 60+ hours a week trying to make up for the incompetence of the new MSP. At least one of them told me that he has dealt with more downtime and high priority problems in the last couple months, than the previous 15 years there. So if you are considering a job in IT at this company - in any capacity, expect to work long hours with no real path or possibility for advancement.

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